Yes, i installed my WP blog on domain.com/news/ all I did was download Wordpress to my PC, create a folder in public_html and named it "news" then uploaded Wp to it.

I then went to the dashboard in WP and configured it, I made the following changes: for posts change the permalink to "custom" then in the title include some keywords this will be picked up with the Search engines.

Then I installed xml sitemap (this can be found when you search the wp plugin database) You upload it to news folder tells you in the installation instructions, then everytime you update your blog, it pings the Search engines to say "new content".