Hi everyone,

I would like to get opinions regarding blogs and the SEO benefits from the set up options below:

Which is better?

1. Set up blog hosted within the domain, www.mysite.com/blog/ you are trying to rank www.mysite.com. Obvious benefits would be fresh "on topic" content consistently added to sites index. Links to internal pages etc.
Benefits: Y! and MSN, since algos seems to favor content over IBL's

2. Set up blog hosted on different host name but same domain, blog.mysite.com. Obvious benefits would be links are now considered IBL from an external site, since bots will view blog. and www. as different sites. The downside would be content freshness would not count towards the www. site.
Benefits: Google.

Thoughts?

DMC