What domain should I pick?
Hello guys, Soon I am going to launch the beta version of my product and I have to setup a blog.
So, what should be the domain name:
- blog.domainName.com
- domainName.com/blog
Note: Consider SEO and explain why?
Hey! I edited the post to correct the grammar a little bit. :)
Now, my answer: I'd go with #2. I don't have any particular SEO reasons, but I can say that it looks a lot more natural that way. (Makerlog has a weird setup for the blog: it's hosted at blog.getmakerlog.com but mirrored in /stories)
The downside is, depending on your setup, having it in a subfolder could be a little more complicated. Might have to mess a bit with nginx or whatever you're using.
Cheers!
Okay, Thanks Using Nginx although, let me try if it can be possible into subfolder, without complication going with it.
@hashnuke Thanks, man..! I have tried setting up with my sample site, it works well.
If you can get it at /blog I'd recommend that. There's been some research into which is better for SEO and subdirectories has a slight edge. But as Sergio says it can be a pain to setup.
I agree with the others here, #2 should be better for SEO. Your blog will benefit from the domain authority of the rest of your site which should help your site and blog posts rank better!
The setup totally depends on your architecture though. If your blog is hosted separately from the rest of your app you could look into something like AWS Cloudfront to map your /blog directory to a cached Cloudfront distribution.
Thank you, my blog is hosted along my app and is hosted in the same instance.
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