Comments on: Blog Hosting for Best SEO: External, Subdomain, Subdirectory?

By: Tim Ware

Tim Ware — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:01:00 +0000

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By: Jacques Deysel

Jacques Deysel — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:45:00 +0000

Very helpful article, definitely convinced me to rather use a subdirectory instead of subdomain. Keep up the good work.

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By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:00:00 +0000

“If the blog is in a subdomain, although there apparently is some
association, it appears that it’s not nearly as strong as having the
blog content in your primary domain.”
So, if I have a website and set up a WorpPress blog like this: http://www.domain/blog the content on the blog does not weigh in as heavily as the primary domain, right?
This post needs to be read a few times to get the most out of it.
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By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:08:00 +0000

Hey there. Thanks for the article! We have had our blog (blog.877myjuicer.com) for several years. We are just starting some serious content building and we have to integrate it in a better manner to our main site (www.877myjuicer.com).

I guess my question to everyone out there – is there a really easy way to switch it from the blog subdomain to /blog subdirectory? I know we need to do 301 redirects on each post, but I am wondering if WordPress, which is what we are hosted on, has a simple way of accomplishing this?

We need link love to our normal domain to get our products to rank better as a result of our quality content!

ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED!

By: David Kurkov

David Kurkov — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:39:00 +0000

Thanks for the post! It’s playing a part in my decision of subdomain vs subdirectory.

By: Carl Johnson

Carl Johnson — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:13:00 +0000

Great post. I've held a few brainstorming sessions for blog content ideas and one thing that came up is that a great source of content for your blog would be to ask readers what they want you to cover/comment on. I haven't yet used this approach on my blog but I know folks who have been successful at this.

By: Carl Johnson

Carl Johnson — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:13:00 +0000

By: joediddley

joediddley — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:56:10 +0000

Lets say we’re sold on using subdirectory for blog rather than subdomain. Lets also say it is pretty easy to get access to domain records like CNAME and whatever else. But, from a time and development perspective, desire to still try quick online set up of a blog such as WordPress.

Is there any way to have one’s blog in a subdirectory in this scenario? (I think I read WordPress did not support it.) I know that subdomain mapping seems to be available. But what about the best use case for SEO? Online setup and hosting of blog, and subdirectory from the URL I own and have access to the domain records for?

For some reason, i’m not seeing this key scenario in any of the searching and reading i’m doing.

By: Peg Rack

Peg Rack — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:10:53 +0000

Andrew, when you switched your blog to a subdomain did you do a 301 redirect from the old domain to the new subdomain?