Subdomain for a blog

[farlandlee]

My client has a site hosted with a company that allows very little customization including I am unable to add a blog to the site.  As he has a fair amount of time & money invested in the site, he is reluctant to start over.  So my question is this.  His blog is currently hosted off site, would it benefit him if I had them add a cname or a record to show his blog at blog.mydomain.com?  Or does Google recognize that it is still a separate site and treat it as such?  Finally does it matter how they set it up cname, a record or redirect?  This is definitely not my area of expertise (if that is not already obvious from the question!).

Thanks for your help!

Matthew

[Gyi]

Assuming I understand your question correctly (and admittedly I may not), you won't get search value from moving blog to sub-domain.

However, there may be other reasons to do this.

[farlandlee]

That is exactly what I was asking although I asked it poorly so thank you for interpreting my question as well.  The other reasons to do this would include what? branding issues?

[Francisco_Meza]

blog.example.com will not enjoy the link juice as would example.com/blog. By using the subdomain, you are basically starting a new site.

Hopefully that answers your question.

[farlandlee]

It does.  Thank you.  That was pretty much my understanding but I just wanted to get the opinions of the experts!  Thanks again.

[Francisco_Meza]

Glad to help! One day hopefully you will return the favor to someone in need.