which one is better- subdomain blog or blog as sub directory

[wonestys2]

Hi,

while doing SEM for websites, blogs place an important role, which type of blog is better, either blog.websitename.com or www.websitename.com/blog

please suggest,

Regards,
Raghav

[madness222]

Mostly they almost the same but most of the webmaster uses the sub domain blog.

[dylan55]

I prefer sub domain blog. It was always used regularly.

[betty]

Its good to use subdomain blog as most of the people are using and it does look natural too for any blog.