What should I do with my blog...V2
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Hello again!
The other day I was asking about my blog which is on http://cheshireweddingphotographyblog.co.uk/
Based on the answer, I decided I wanted to move it within my website. So I emailed Photobiz saying I wanted it to become:
http://www.celynnenphotography.co.uk/blog
They want me to make it: blog.celynnenphotography.co.uk
They say the benefits (re: SEO) would be the same but that there would be more downtime if I wanted it done my way.
Are they right in saying the benefits would be the same for blog.celynnenphotography.co.uk as it would for http://www.celynnenphotography.co.uk/blog ?
Thanks!
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What is it's done through Frame Forwarding?
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What is it's done through Frame Forwarding?
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This is what he told me after what you guys said. Is this accurate and OK?
"In making this transition from having a separate blog domain for your blog to celynnenphotography.co.uk/blog please be aware that there are several steps involved that can result in temporary down time for your site and blog in making this transition. Please also note that since you are making a major DNS change on the domain for the blog it can take some time for the blog to re-index on search engines. Also your Photobiz site will be down until this transition is complete, and after that it will index on Google as "site.celynnenphotography.co.uk""
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I believe that this issue is so important that I would be willing to change designers or hosts or whatever is needed to get the blog in a folder. I am out to win, not fart around.
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The whole thing is whether having a blog on a sub-domain or sub-folder makes a difference. Well since sub-domains do not inherently get any page authority from their root domain I see the sub-domain as a worse option. They are not correct that it's the same. The most common example I have heard and used is people who launch blogs on Wordpress.com. If the blog is launched in a sub-folder then it is seen as more of a part of the main website and thus authority will translate better back and forth for you. If you wanted an example from someone smarter than myself I would just look at the way SEOMoz does it...lol.
The most common problem I have when talking to clients about this issue is the way the original website was built. Sometimes the platform or CMS they chose is restricting to a degree to allow common blog platforms to handle url re-writing correctly and various other factors.
If you are given the option I would recommend a sub-folder setup. It may be easier for developers to do the sub-domain, which I usually hear from web developers. As far as downtime... just do the switch on a sat or sun night. I usually don't see that as a big deal and when thinking about the long haul I would rather have it setup correctly.
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If you read lots of Q&A discussions here you will find that http://www.celynnenphotography.co.uk/blog is recommended the most. My blog is in a folder.... SEOmoz blog is on seomoz.org/blog and YOUmoz blog is at seomoz.org/ugc
About a year ago I redirected two subdomains to files in the root and the results have been kickass.
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