Hi, I have discourse at example.com and want to host a blog at example.com/blog . How can I do that? Thanks, Michael p.s: what you suggest from SEO point of view? subdomain or subfolder?

Name: Should I structure my site using subdomains or subdirectories?
Uploaded: 2015-09-03T21:53:22Z
Description: OK, here’s a newer (2012) video: [Should I structure my site using subdomains or subdirectories?] Nothing has changed. :smile:

If you insist on doing this, I recommend you deploy Discourse to a subfolder first ( www.example.com/forum ), and then you can deploy other apps (like your blog) to other subfolders. [image] Use a subfolder (path prefix) to serve Discourse with multiple servers sharing a domai…

I think the only way you could do this is by putting a reverse proxy such as nginx or apache httpd in front of discourse, then passing everything at /blog to another application, and everything else to Discourse. I would not recommend it if you can avoid it. You can already use a discourse category…

[image] downey: I would not recommend it if you can avoid it. so what you are suggest me to do?

My recommendation: If you only want a blog to post articles and solicit comments, just use Discourse. If you want to use a blog platform such as WordPress as a CMS for a “web site”, then put it at your domain root https://example.com/ and move Discourse to https://forum.example.com/

[image] downey: Discourse to https://forum.example.com/ But I read that bad for SEO( two seperate sites for google..)

I don’t believe in SEO. :smile:

Lol but google believe… :smile:

[image] michael_solomon: Lol but google believe… Are you sure? [image] Subdomains and subdirectories Towards the tail end of PubCon, I noticed a spate of articles talking about subdomains and subdirectories in Google, and I wanted to talk more about this subject in case I was unc…

Yep.. this article very deprecated.. things changed little bit: http://mainpath.com/putting-end-to-subdomains-vs-subdirectories-debate/ Remember that Google considers sub domains separate from their parent domains: sub.yoursite.com is considered a different site altogether compared to yoursite.c…

Here is a response from Matt Cutts in email to me: pretty much everyone who has strong opinions on subdomains vs. subfolders doesn’t know what they’re talking about. They sure do have strong opinions anyway though! Sorry, I believe Matt Cutts of Google over your random link :wink:

[image] michael_solomon: Yep.. this article very deprecated OK, here’s a newer (2012) video: [Should I structure my site using subdomains or subdirectories?] Nothing has changed. :smile:

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downey (Michael Downey) September 3, 2015, 9:53pm 11

OK, here’s a newer (2012) video:

Nothing has changed.

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