Subdomain for a blog
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My client has a site hosted with a company that allows very little customization including I am unable to add a blog to the site. As he has a fair amount of time & money invested in the site, he is reluctant to start over. So my question is this. His blog is currently hosted off site, would it benefit him if I had them add a cname or a record to show his blog at blog.mydomain.com? Or does Google recognize that it is still a separate site and treat it as such? Finally does it matter how they set it up cname, a record or redirect? This is definitely not my area of expertise (if that is not already obvious from the question!).
Thanks for your help!
Matthew
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Glad to help! One day hopefully you will return the favor to someone in need.
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It does. Thank you. That was pretty much my understanding but I just wanted to get the opinions of the experts! Thanks again.
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blog.example.com will not enjoy the link juice as would example.com/blog. By using the subdomain, you are basically starting a new site.
Hopefully that answers your question.
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That is exactly what I was asking although I asked it poorly so thank you for interpreting my question as well. The other reasons to do this would include what? branding issues?
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Assuming I understand your question correctly (and admittedly I may not), you won't get search value from moving blog to sub-domain.
However, there may be other reasons to do this.
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