Thread: Sub domain or sub directories

Would hxxp://keyword.domain.com/ be more advantageous in terms of SERP than hxxp://www.domain.com/keyword/ ? Or is there no difference?

A subdomain counts as an own domain I think...so I would use domain.com/keyword/

As far as my experience goes. site.domain.com is treated as a different site by Google. As far as SEO is concerned both are fine but managing a site.domain.com can be a bit pain.

So, basically I should go with sub directories, right?

yupp...a new subdomain wouldn't have any linkjuice...

The clear advantage of going with subdomains is if your site gets really big you can easily move a subdomain to a different host, subdirectories are easier to manage if you do not expect to scale, other than that there is no difference according to google.