SEO subdomain vs domain

[Thor]

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

 

[slvR]

can use both

make thing.domain.com redirect to domain.com/thing

 

[Thor]

That makes sense, coolbeans will do that.

 

[giggity]

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.

 

[FuLL_MeT4L]

Watch this: https://moz.com/blog/subdomains-vs-...ure-links-optimally-for-seo-whiteboard-friday

In short, use domain.com/thing and not thing.domain.com

 

[Thor]

Watch this: https://moz.com/blog/subdomains-vs-...ure-links-optimally-for-seo-whiteboard-friday

In short, use domain.com/thing and not thing.domain.com

Thanks for the link it was a really nice read, I like that website.

/bookmarked

 

[kaufen]

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.