Thanks, appreciate your thoughts

Hi I am developing an ecommerce site and want to place text on all category and home page. The challenge is that 300 words of text for the pages does not fit into the design appropriately especially on the home page. If I were to use a show/hide element with javascript would this be seen as spam or a trick to the search engines.

I do not think it is spam as it will be actual content for the site and the visitor can view it if they click on the show button.

Would love to hear your thoughts?

Andrew while I agree with what you say, is there not a greater risk if your blog is hacked and then a hacker may gain access to the server where as on a sub-domain the blog can be on a different server?

Agree that blogs are best in a sub folder BUT if you have an ecommerce site it is best practice to have your blog on a subdomain

This is purely for security reasons, if your wordpress blog gets hacked, the hackers will not gain access to your eCommerce site as it is on a different server