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Blog URL Help please...

by leclaims
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I'm creating a blog for one of my sites and want to get further clarification on the domain/url setup.

I've seen a variety of ways of doing things, but I want to get your opinion.

Is there any difference in the following possibilities from a SEO standpoint? One more beneficial than the others? All the same? etc.

blog.domain.com
www(dot)domain(dot)com/blog/
www(dot)domain(dot)com/blog.aspx (or whatever file extension is used)

Thanks!
#blog #url
  • Profile picture of the author NateRivers
    Hmmm.... all I can tell you is that I've never dedicated a subdomain to my "blog". I set up wordpress on each site at the root itself, and then on some I have a static homepage, and others the homepage will just be the most recent posts.

    I've never read anything that said that any version of www.domain.blog made any difference.
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  • Profile picture of the author lotsofsnow
    Originally Posted by leclaims View Post

    blog.domain.com
    www(dot)domain(dot)com/blog/
    www(dot)domain(dot)com/blog.aspx (or whatever file extension is used)

    Thanks!
    Ranking based on SEO value:

    1. www(dot)domain(dot)com/blog.aspx (or whatever file extension is used)
    2. blog.domain.com
    3. www(dot)domain(dot)com/blog/
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  • Profile picture of the author JesseGuthrie
    Never use a subdomain as your blog, it will hurt the intial main sites ranking. Use the extension of /blog when doing so. It will help you get many pages ranked in the search engines. Then each post if you setup your permalinks correctly, will be like this .com/TITLE OF BLOG ARTICLE HERE

    Thus helping them rank better with onpage seo as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author rusty1027
      Originally Posted by JesseGuthrie View Post

      Never use a subdomain as your blog, it will hurt the intial main sites ranking.
      I had never heard this before. Can someone explain why a subdomain hurts the main sites ranking?
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      • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
        Originally Posted by rusty1027 View Post

        I had never heard this before. Can someone explain why a subdomain hurts the main sites ranking?
        It doesn't matter.

        Any of those options will perform the same for SEO purposes if that is the only deciding factor involved.
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        • Profile picture of the author leclaims
          Thanks for the help folks, much appreciated.
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    • Profile picture of the author leclaims
      Originally Posted by JesseGuthrie View Post

      Never use a subdomain as your blog, it will hurt the intial main sites ranking. Use the extension of /blog when doing so. It will help you get many pages ranked in the search engines. Then each post if you setup your permalinks correctly, will be like this .com/TITLE OF BLOG ARTICLE HERE

      Thus helping them rank better with onpage seo as well.
      How about this possibility:

      .com/blog.aspx as the main index page for the blog and then .com/TITLE_OF_BLOG_ARTICLE_HERE.aspx as a blog post page?
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