blog.companyurl.com or companyurl.com/blog

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19366

by dawie • 19 years ago

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dawie2• 19 years ago

Somewhere I remember reading that its bad for SEO for your blog url to be blog.mycompanyurl.com. I can't remember where or why. My host only allows above option. Do you think its a big deal?

nickb• 19 years ago

Not true at all. SEO business, if you haven't figured out that so far, is chock-full of half truths and nonsense. SEO "experts" don't understand the correlation at all and imply causation on pretty much everything they come across. Most of your PR comes from backlinks so whether you use a CNAME or a directory is quite simply irrelevant.

sabat• 19 years ago

There are some sleazy false "experts" in SEO, but that doesn't mean that all of it is bunk.

mojuba• 19 years ago

To my knowledge, what matters Google pagerank-wise is a page, not a web site.

However, if you are going to provide individual homepages for the users of your web site and you want their URLs be mycompanyurl.com/username, like with del.icio.us, then maybe the domain option would be a better choice, and probably not only for your blog but for the rest of your corporate info as well.

danielha• 19 years ago

What do you mean your host only allows the blog as a subdomain?

dawie2• 19 years ago

They have a one click installer that blows up if the url is not in the format: blog.myurl.com. I put in a support request and told them that I want myurl.com/blog and they said its not supported (by the one click installer I guess)

ed• 19 years ago

Redirect blog.companyurl.com to companyurl.com/blog. Seems like the most complete solution and, it happens to be what Google does for many of its subdomains.

wastedbrains• 19 years ago

Not sure what is best for SEO and such. Doing the redirect mentioned by ed sounds like a good solution. We currently run blog.company.com but I might set up the redirect as that sounds like a good idea.

webwright• 19 years ago

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/subdomains-subfolders-and-toplevel-domains (these guys are the best and most-open SEO resource I am aware of- their ranking factors article is simply awesome)

I'd do a bit of reading on this and see if you can find some consensus. I don't think you'll find a ton of SEO experts here (though I might be wrong). Lots of opinions to be had at http://www.google.com/search?q=seo+subdomains&btnG=Search

For the record, I think the /blog option is the way to go (and I've had SEO somewhere in my job description for about a decade).

crsmith• 19 years ago

dvorak.org/blog has a nice ring to it

sergiutruta• 19 years ago

I don't think Google or other search engine for that matter will make any distinction if it's blog.companyurl or companyurl/blog. You can choose whichever, it will make no difference in how the Page Rank is computed.

blog.companyurl.com or companyurl.com/blog

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