Comments on: Blog Address: Directory or Domain?

By: Art

Art — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:12:33 +0000

Sub-domain is better.

By: Paul Biggs

Paul Biggs — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:10:33 +0000

If you host your blog on your company domain, there is an added benefit of using a subdomain (blog.company.com) rather than a subdirectory (www.company.com/blog). Since the search engines see a subdomain as a unique URL from the main domain, you have a better chance of grabbing two spots on a results page (SERP) if both your blog and site are well ranked.

By: P. Eric Willms

P. Eric Willms — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 13:20:31 +0000

I believe that having a blog as a sub-domain or a directory is the best way to go, and I believe it gies to branding. One thing that I find customers are after is a similar look and feel as they go about your site, and that continuity is important. Dpending on what your site is doing, it may not be a good idea to send tham off site just to blog.

By: Baris CAN

Baris CAN — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:45:11 +0000

Both SEO and visitors alike appear to prefer the blogs as a subdomain better.

By: Baris

Baris — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:45:29 +0000

By: argplywood

argplywood — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:11:31 +0000

Thank you very much from argticaret.com Turkey

By: Tammy Ames

Tammy Ames — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 19:51:16 +0000

It’s a great post and makes sense. I’ve done it both ways ~ on different domains and as subdomains. Both SEO and visitors alike appear to prefer the blogs as a subdomain better. It has a feeling of continuity because they stay on one site. Having the RSS aspect on your site is a definite plus because of the content being added daily.

PS – CAPS always seem to screw people up in urls.

By: Thomas McMahon

Thomas McMahon — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:34:01 +0000

:: Removed some comments as this is not a support forum. :: Sorry Igor, seem my email to you for help off the blog.

By: Igor M. (BizMord Blog)

Igor M. (BizMord Blog) — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:31:09 +0000

Come to think of it … I messed up too. My blog address is http://www.bizmord.com/Blog so that “B” in BLOG is capital. If someone types Blog with a lower case, they won’t see my blog.

I now know what I have to do. Create folder /blog and redirect that page to /Blog. Ok … where is my amigo programmer (He’s got to go do a job now that Americans won’t do)

By: Thomas McMahon

Thomas McMahon — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:58:03 +0000

I think you have credibility by putting it on your domain or on it’s own domain. I’d always choose hosting it on your own site, but as a separated site is still good where credibility counts.

I think you loose credibility when your corporate blog includes blogspot.com or myspace.com in it. Then again, it depends on your company. Granted the National Arbitration Form is on blogspot so exceptions do apply.

By: Igor M. (BizMord Blog)

Igor M. (BizMord Blog) — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:47:52 +0000

Lee, don’t worry about it It’s what you make out of it and you’ve made both of these URLs work for you well.

On a side note … what would happen if you decided to do a 301 redirect to a /Blog domain?

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:18:01 +0000

I guess I really messed that one up eh, Igor? I guess it’s not too bad since I use “toprank” in both my company website, http://www.toprankresults.com and the blog address, http://www.toprankblog.com.

By: Igor M. (BizMord Blog)

Igor M. (BizMord Blog) — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:53:58 +0000

Lee …. very good post. I believe that having your Blog being part of your domain does not only add to your SEO strategy but also to your credibility as a company.

It’s one thing to direct your prospects to a different URL to read your blog, than to just say “add /Blog to our URL”