Ok..so I'm a lazier fuck than TPat is..but I have a blog query..

[dr_montelbaun]

A subdomain would be much better for a variety of reasons. What it comes doen to is that it makes your blog appear like its own website rather than a page on another website. That has multiple benefits.

How you make it happen depends on your hosting setup. Do you have a control panel you can use?

[oast]

Originally Posted by dr_montelbaun

A subdomain would be much better for a variety of reasons. What it comes doen to is that it makes your blog appear like its own website rather than a page on another website. That has multiple benefits.

Does Google (and other SEs) see subdomains as the same site or a totally seperate one?
With the low price of domain names, why not just get a completely seperate domain? If it is being used as an extension of a main site, tagging the word 'blog' or 'diary' on the end would work, rather than using a subdomain. i.e. in Amber's case redhotblog.com or red-hot-blog.com would appear to be an extension of her sites.

*Just a thought about my experience using subdomains.

[dr_montelbaun]

Originally Posted by oast

Does Google (and other SEs) see subdomains as the same site or a totally seperate one?

I'm sure they have some specific way they see them that we cannot hope to fathom. But in my experience, they see a subdomain as being far more like its own site than something in a subdirectory. A subdirectory just looks like a page that is 1-deep, it seems.

With the low price of domain names, why not just get a completely seperate domain? If it is being used as an extension of a main site, tagging the word 'blog' or 'diary' on the end would work, rather than using a subdomain. i.e. in Amber's case redhotblog.com or red-hot-blog.com would appear to be an extension of her sites.

That seems like a good idea to me. I hadn't thought of that.