blog domain name. better to make a blog domain name as a subdomain or subdirectory?

[cybernoyz]

HI All,

Would just like to ask for SEO purposes that in making a blog. is it better to make it as a subdomain like this.
ex. www.seo.blog.mydomain.com or www.blog.mydomainname.com
or
is it better to make it as a subdirectory.?
ex. www.mydomain.com/blog

or is it better to with a free blogging service like ex. myblog?

or any suggestions for blog domain seo purposes.

. thanks

[Philomena Ojikutu]

I think, (from my two year experience as a blogger), what matters most is the frequent and regular updating of your original niche content, as well as your domain name relating to what you blog about. I have had blogs that were 'sub-domained' that outperformed main directory blogs in organic traffic.

Subdomaining your blog or otherwise is not the focus. The search engines would find and showcase you
, if you post regularly. I mean no disrespect for SEO guru tactics.

[mjtaylor]

There is no particular SEO advantage to using a subdomain unless you need it for keywords. And the previous poster *is* correct; the most important thing is your content .. and that is where the focus should be, however, as with any website, without SEO the human users will not be likely to come ...

You may find this transcript Matt Cutt's White Hat SEO for Bloggers talk helpful.

Cheers, MJ

[cybernoyz]

Thanks Philomena Ojikutu and mjtaylor , I see , like the saying content is king. I guess that goes on to saying also that it would be wise not go way off content from the main directory, of that is if you are going to have a main directory content.
thanks again , I think will start with subdirectory while continuously building main domain.

[innominds]

I'll prefer www.mydomain.com/blog as it will be easy to promote it. rather than sub-domain.