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Is a subdomain better for SEO?

by jonb
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So, I have site one: example.com

It's not on a platform that has a good blog platform, so I intend to create a second site on Wordpress to serve as the blog.

Does it matter from an SEO perspective whether I create a subdomain for the Wordpress site or create a new domain with a .blog extension?

In other words:

blog.example.com or example.blog

Does it matter in any significant way?

Thanks
#seo #subdomain
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    They will both be seen as the same thing - totally separate websites from the main domain.

    The best thing from an SEO perspective would be to put it in a subdirectory of the main website (i.e. example.com/blog).

    That way, links to the blog help the main domain and links to the main domain help the blog.
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    • Profile picture of the author jonb
      Thanks Dave. The main site is on the Teachable platform which doesn't have a particularly good blog function. To get the flexibility (and SEO) I want, I need to use an outside site w/Wordpress.
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by jonb View Post

        Thanks Dave. The main site is on the Teachable platform which doesn't have a particularly good blog function. To get the flexibility (and SEO) I want, I need to use an outside site w/Wordpress.
        That's fine. You can install Wordpress in a subdirectory like yourdomain.com/blog and still have the rest of the site running on whatever platform you are using.
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  • Profile picture of the author erin31
    yes. sub-domain has similar effect from my past experience.
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  • Profile picture of the author gainerp
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    Yes, subdomain name works better.
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