Again, it depends on what the person who runs the blog wants. If they want the content to be separate, then blog.mysite.com would be the best choice.
Not sure I can come up with a reason why this would be the case, but I have seen it and even done it for clients. I wonder if a sitemap on main site, linking to blog.mysite.com would help? On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Medic <hofme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > AFAIK www.mysite.com and mysite.com are different with regards to SEO. > > It's my understanding that the best case is: http://[domain]/blog/ > And then you consistently use [domain]. so www.mysite.com should be used > throughout, no mixing between www and non-www. > > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> And what I said still stands - search engines will not have any issues >> finding the right domain for a site - regardless of whether or not its >> in a different sub-domain. >> >> Makes sense to me what you are saying about the content being part of >> the 'main' site - which is why I also stated some people prefer to put >> their blog on a different sub-domain. >> >> I would say that different sub-domains are treated as different >> sites, rather than different domains, than the main site. But that >> brings up the question: if blog.mysite,com is seen as a different >> site/domain than mysite.com, is www.mysite.com treated the same way? >> >> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Justin Scott >> <jscott-li...@gravityfree.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Search engines will not have an issues finding the >> >> right domain. >> > >> > Everything I've read says otherwise. If you put content on different >> > domains (sub-domains are considered different "domains" in the eyes of >> the >> > crawlers) then you are basically saying that it's content that isn't part >> of >> > your main site and should be treated independently. If you want the >> content >> > to be treated as part of your site, put it in a folder under the primary >> > domain. If it should be its own site and the content isn't much related >> to >> > the main site, put it on its own (sub-) domain. >> > >> > >> > -Justin Scott >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322524 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
