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    • IceIcebaby
      IceIcebaby last edited by

      Hi community,

      Let's say I have a men's/women's clothing website. Would it be better to do clothing.com/mens and clothing.com/womens OR mens.clothing.com and womens.clothing.com?

      I understand Moz's stance on blogs that it should be clothing.com/blog, but wanted to ask for this different circumstance.

      Thanks for your help!

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      • TheeDigital
        TheeDigital last edited by

        Use the subfolder. The problem with subdomains is that they can be treated as a separate website and if that happens then the strength/signals do not pass to the rest of the website.

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        • grobro
          grobro last edited by

          Choose the subfolder, a subdomain counts as if it's a completely different domain. I recently moved my blog from a subdomain to a subfolder and the results were great!

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          • paints-n-design
            paints-n-design last edited by

            It is pretty interesting how often the same question is asked. 
            Its good to ask, better than just chose the easiest way - both are right - in that point the folder would be the right decision. Give Horvath a thumb up 😉

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