Subdomain or subfolder

[clinicea]

Hi

I have hosted a website on azure, and was looking at starting a blog using wordpress. Wordpress does not get installed on the same domain as the my website by default on azure. I instead need to have it as a subdomain ie

blog.mywebsite.com instead of mywebsite.com/blog

I wanted to know which of the two approaches is better for my SEO, shoud it be subdomains or sub folder

Tx

Vinay

[AndieF]

If your blog is directly related to your main website then I would say subfolder.

A good rule of thumb for this kind of thing is:

**Sub folder **is better than a sub domain which is better than a separate domain altogether

[ThompsonPaul]

Have a look through all the previous Q&A questions on this same issue, Lalit. There will be lots of information that applies to your situation.

Paul