Subfolder vs subdomain for SEO

A blog can live at yoursite.com/blog or at blog.yoursite.com, and Google says it can crawl, index and rank both. In this video we look at what sites on the market chose and at what Google has said, with one question in mind, the effect on SEO.

The effect is about where the value lands. Content in a subfolder sits on the same site as your product pages, so the links it earns count for that site.

The choice is often made for you. A website builder that cannot mount a blog under a path leaves the subdomain as the only option, which is the situation Subdomain or subfolder for your blog deals with. Site architecture for SEO places the blog in the wider site.

BeeRanked serves your content either way. The setup for both is in Get your content live.