: Do I get penalized for hosting a blog in a subfolder? First of all, I know this is an ongoing debate, I’ve read forums and seen different opinions but I’m still confused. Here’s my problem.

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First of all, I know this is an ongoing debate, I’ve read forums and seen different opinions but I’m still confused. Here’s my problem.

I’ve started my website from scratch (design and code) and now after a couple of months I realized that it’s not very SEO friendly and my search traffic is close to none. As a result I decided to add a Wordpress blog to it as it’s SEO friendly out of the box and has some good plugins like Yoast.

My problem here is that I don’t want my current website to affect the blog section (get lower search results on the blog because my website is poorly optimized). On the other hand, I already have a couple of backlinks to my current website because I keep releasing design freebies and people share those (would those links benefit my blog?).

As I understood, if you make a blog on a subdomain, then google will treat it as a new website in which case the backlinks won’t help me. If I choose to go with a subfolder then I may benefit from the backlinks but wouldn’t I get penalized because of the existing website which is poorly optimized and maybe has a couple SEO issues that Google doesn’t like?

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