SEO subdomain vs domain

Thor

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Hey,

Contemplating if I should use blog.mydomain or mydomain/blog

Also with muscletalk for instance If I want to make a landing page in the furture what would be best forum.muscletalk or muscletalk/forum

Same with shop.muscletalk or muscletalk/shop ?

*just used muscletalk as an example
 
can use both

make thing.domain.com redirect to domain.com/thing
 
That makes sense, coolbeans will do that.

You don't necessarily have to redirect, rather have the "blog" subdomain point to the /public_html/blog/ directory, that way going to either will get you to the exact same place, and you won't be redirected, which doesn't benefit SEO.
 
Subdomains are used when you have different products and services that you want to present by using a different website structure (Google does this for several products such as Adwords, Google Docs etc). Also they can be used for GEO targeting, or for increasing your results in SERPs. In many cases websites use subdomains because they use hosted blog services to power their blogs. Finally for dynamic multilanguage websites, subdomains are a great solution because they can be easily coded and they can achieve good SEO Results.
 
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