: Correctly adding WordPress blog to existing site I have a website running and have added an extra link on the website that links to a WordPress site. Both sites are hosted on the same domain.

@Kristi941

Setting up a blog on a subdomain compared to a subdirectory really shouldn't make too much of a difference in terms of SEO. It truly depends on the Webmaster's preference. Google and other search engines "should" treat each of them the same granted they again,


have the same Copyright information
Are using the same Google Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools) account

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@Eichhorn148

Setting up a subdomain for a blog is absolutely fine from an SEO standpoint. Google treats subdomains as the same site when:


They interlink to each other
The have the same copyright info
They are added to the same Google Search Console account


If it is easier to set up the blog on a subdomain from a technical standpoint, there is no SEO reason why you shouldn't do so.

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@Gloria169

blog.website.com will be treated as a completely separate domain.

So:
blog.website.com and website.com will not share each other's domain authority.

Also its very much easy to configure wordpress however you want. So you should ideally go with website.com/blog so that you can link you blogs better and pass more SEO juice from parent site to blog site and vice versa.

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