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Really not a problem - thank you for responding

Thanks Highland - ironically that's the exact setup at the moment - a wordpress.com blog hosted on a subdomain!

So my idea was to move it to a subfolder for better SEO - then the hosts chipped in with their refusal to run PHP.

This is in a high-competition niche where every detail can make a difference.

I guess you're saying it's impossible to have a WP (.org) site hosted elsewhere and pointed at the URL domain.com/blog ?

Ah OK, that's a much happier thing to hear! Thank you

Thanks Gaston, much appreciated and as I feared.

I'm feeling a bit stuck as to what to do here then. I want to run Wordpress (principally for the ease of client use and the Yoast SEO plugin), but the hosts simply won't allow PHP.

So if a different server / IP number isn't a solution, I wonder if there  is any way I haven't thought of to run Wordpress in an effective manner as a subfolder of the site? Or perhaps an alternative to WP that has great SEO - the hosts say they run "web servers with .Net applications hosted on them using IIS "

Does anybody have any ideas?

- would it hurt link juice to host a blog on a different server to the rest of your website?

I have a web host saying they can't run Wordpress as they won't support PHP for "security reasons" - one solution would be to set up Wordpress on a different server and redirect domain.com/blog there (I presume this is do-able?).

But I don't know if that affects the SEO adversely?