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I have a site that is running its blog on www.blog.xyz.com and I am looking for ways to increase Google traffic. Would it be better to running the blog on something like: www.xyz.com/blog instead?
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My pleasure! We're all in this together

Good luck!
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That's great Bill, thanks. My biggest issue was figuring the terminology to search out resources on the issue, so this is exactly what I was looking for.
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Google is wishy-washy on the answer to this, but Rand's answer is the one I lean on - https://azwa.1clkaccess.in/community/q/moz-s-official-stance-on-subdomain-vs-subfolder-does-it-need-updating
I think that's a great thread to review.
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