Thanks for your suggestion. I already decided to go with sub-directory after getting the above suggestions and reading this article.
The purpose of this thread was to know the negative sides of the sub-domain because creating the blog in sub-domain was my first choice, even after I knew that sub-directory would be the best choice after reading some articles and getting the suggestions from here.
After my research I found that,
Sub-domain: Easy to set up, but bad for SEO and in future I may get trouble if I choose to change registrar.
Sub-directory: A little hard to set up, but good for SEO and probably no trouble in the future.
So I picked the best one.
Topic: Need Suggestion About Adding BLOG (Sub-Domain or Sub-Directory ) (Read 139 times)
November 27, 2019, 06:34:28 PM
IMO go with domain.com/here
All benefits from here.domain.com is wiped out by the split in SEO efforts. Especially considering you're adding a blog.
If you go with subdomain, all link juice to blog articles will not have a positive effect on the rest of your site. If you go with subdirectory, your blog will fuel better rankings universally throughout your site. Pretty easy choice. GL
All benefits from here.domain.com is wiped out by the split in SEO efforts. Especially considering you're adding a blog.
If you go with subdomain, all link juice to blog articles will not have a positive effect on the rest of your site. If you go with subdirectory, your blog will fuel better rankings universally throughout your site. Pretty easy choice. GL
November 17, 2019, 10:05:24 PM
@enhu
Thanks for your input. When I searched about the issue I found that Google considers sub-domain and sub-directory as same but not sure exactly with your point as well. Logically, why Google would consider sub-domain as another website is just out of my expectations. The sub-domain will be under the same main domain, mydomain.com / blog.mydomain.com.
@eckmar
The site we are making is some kinda online tool site to help out a specific niche with a better solution, which will be under mydomian.com and will have about 12 tools. On the other side, we want a blog to write relevant things in the form of articles, how-to, reviews, knowledge etc. So the blog and the site will be relevant but keywords may vary from pages to pages. It's not like that we'll be talking about Crypto in mydomain.com and talk about gadgets in blog.mydomain.com. Please let me know if I've understood you wrong.
Our project highly depends on SEO because this is the only way to market, I mean to get organic traffic. Social marketing and paid campaigns won't work out. So the blog will play a vital role to increase the overall organic traffic.
Last 2 days I read so many articles about the topic on Google and somewhere I read that if I use sub-domain then the main disadvantage is when I'll change hosting or something like that and I'll lose the sub-domain. If it happens then this is a high disadvantage imo because it may create pain in the future. I may even lose my years of works... You may now say that I have my answer from Google then what is the purpose of creating this thread. The thing is, I read about this disadvantage only in one article and some others prefer sub-domains whereas some others prefer sub-directories... so that's how I'm confused and seeking suggestions here...
Please guys suggest me which way to go and if possible with all the advantages and disadvantages you know. I hope I have explained my situation very clean.
Thanks for your input. When I searched about the issue I found that Google considers sub-domain and sub-directory as same but not sure exactly with your point as well. Logically, why Google would consider sub-domain as another website is just out of my expectations. The sub-domain will be under the same main domain, mydomain.com / blog.mydomain.com.
@eckmar
The site we are making is some kinda online tool site to help out a specific niche with a better solution, which will be under mydomian.com and will have about 12 tools. On the other side, we want a blog to write relevant things in the form of articles, how-to, reviews, knowledge etc. So the blog and the site will be relevant but keywords may vary from pages to pages. It's not like that we'll be talking about Crypto in mydomain.com and talk about gadgets in blog.mydomain.com. Please let me know if I've understood you wrong.
Our project highly depends on SEO because this is the only way to market, I mean to get organic traffic. Social marketing and paid campaigns won't work out. So the blog will play a vital role to increase the overall organic traffic.
Last 2 days I read so many articles about the topic on Google and somewhere I read that if I use sub-domain then the main disadvantage is when I'll change hosting or something like that and I'll lose the sub-domain. If it happens then this is a high disadvantage imo because it may create pain in the future. I may even lose my years of works... You may now say that I have my answer from Google then what is the purpose of creating this thread. The thing is, I read about this disadvantage only in one article and some others prefer sub-domains whereas some others prefer sub-directories... so that's how I'm confused and seeking suggestions here...
Please guys suggest me which way to go and if possible with all the advantages and disadvantages you know. I hope I have explained my situation very clean.
November 17, 2019, 03:36:51 PM
Depends on what you want to achieve. Google crawlers treat subdomains and subdirectories the same in the way of ranking, the difference is keyword association. What I mean is, if you already have a website at mydomain.com google will crawl it and assign certain keywords based on the website content, now if you put your blog at blog.mydomain.com, google will crawl it separately and assign keywords to that subdomain which results in people easily finding your blog OR your website. In case I didn't explain it well, example:
You have mydomain.com with content "my awesome node site" and you have blog.mydomain.com post talking about mysql databases. If someone searches for "Mydomain node", results from your blog will rank lower if they don't have the same keywords, but that is also true in reverse too. If someone searches for "mydomain mysql", posts from blog.mydomain.com are prioritized in search results because a keyword from that group is used and content from mydomain.com will rank lower.
In case of subdirectories, all keywords are assigned to the same group. So, using the example from before, if someone searches for "mydomain mysql", the post from mydomain.com/blog will be displayed, but other blog posts and content from mydomain.com will be ranked equally (not talking about other keywords etc of course). This will result in more "mixed" results, and your blog should theoretically increase the results of non-blog related content of mydomain.com.
These examples are extreme oversimplification, and they are based on what we know about google crawlers and search engine. It could be changed or no longer valid. Hope I helped you out
You have mydomain.com with content "my awesome node site" and you have blog.mydomain.com post talking about mysql databases. If someone searches for "Mydomain node", results from your blog will rank lower if they don't have the same keywords, but that is also true in reverse too. If someone searches for "mydomain mysql", posts from blog.mydomain.com are prioritized in search results because a keyword from that group is used and content from mydomain.com will rank lower.
In case of subdirectories, all keywords are assigned to the same group. So, using the example from before, if someone searches for "mydomain mysql", the post from mydomain.com/blog will be displayed, but other blog posts and content from mydomain.com will be ranked equally (not talking about other keywords etc of course). This will result in more "mixed" results, and your blog should theoretically increase the results of non-blog related content of mydomain.com.
These examples are extreme oversimplification, and they are based on what we know about google crawlers and search engine. It could be changed or no longer valid. Hope I helped you out
November 17, 2019, 02:52:30 PM
As far as I know google search engine will completely treat your subdomain as another website which you will have to do more SEO work for it while your new blog will inherit the SEO works you did from the main website if you do it with subdirectory. Bots can easy crawl it to index when they find new pages. I could be wrong as I'm not really updated with the search engine bots this time.
November 17, 2019, 02:39:06 PM
I and my brother developed a site from scratch using NODE, but now we decided to add a blog also and our choice is WordPress as we have knowledge of this.
So to add a blog, we have two choices either to go with sub-domain (blog.mydomain.com) or sub-directory (mydomain.com/blog/).
I have looked so much to find answers about the PROS & CONS for both of the ways and got nothing so far. I'll be very grateful if anyone writes about all the possible PROS & CONS.
@Mods Please don't remove this topic elsewhere if you guys think it's off-topic. Devs, experts belong here not in Off-topic board I guess. TIA for considering.
So to add a blog, we have two choices either to go with sub-domain (blog.mydomain.com) or sub-directory (mydomain.com/blog/).
I have looked so much to find answers about the PROS & CONS for both of the ways and got nothing so far. I'll be very grateful if anyone writes about all the possible PROS & CONS.
@Mods Please don't remove this topic elsewhere if you guys think it's off-topic. Devs, experts belong here not in Off-topic board I guess. TIA for considering.
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