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Hi John thanks for the info... Can i ask how you host is on the root domain? Is it as simple as www.rootdomain.com/blog? Also what about all of the existing articles on the blog, each article has its own page structured stylemag.rootdomain.com/article  would these all just become rootdomain.com/article?

Thanks in advance for the help.

We host a online fashion magazine on a subdomain of our e-commerce site. Currently we host the blog which is word press based on a subdomain ex:  stylemag.xxxxxxx.com

First question is are all the links from our blog considered internal links? They do not show in the back links profile.  Also would it be better to host this on its own domain?

Second question Is my main URL getting credit for the unique content published to the blog on the subdomain and if so is it helping the overall SEO of my website more then if it and the links were hosted on its own wordpress.com

To shock all of you YES facebook links count as a backlink.... If you have not checked your webmaster tools lately you will notice that comment links on facebook post now show up in your back-links profile. However this may not be the best quality links they are similar to forum comment posting a very low level/quality of link building.

If they are showing up in your webmaster tools then they are do follow links and are considered back-links.

I would love to hear what everyone think of this logic?

There is no way to check if a competitor is being penalized for sure. The only way is if you have access to the google webmaster tools for that site. Sorry to break the bad news to you lol

There is no way to check if a competitor is being penalized for sure. The only way is if you have access to the google webmaster tools for that site. Sorry to break the bad news to you lol