I've been setting up a blog for a project and have always heard the common wisdom to never put the blog in a subdomain (blog.site.com) and instead to always put it as a subdirectory (site.com/blog)<p>you see a lot of it here from the 2010s. ex: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1176438<p>But I just ran into a comment on reddit saying that modern Google does not make a distinction anymore. If that's true it would be a hell of a lot easier for me. I could setup the subdomain proxying via cloudflare super easily. If I had to do a subdirectory I would either have to setup cloudflare workers or do some much more complicated reverse proxying<p>https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-treats-subdomains-subdirectories-john-mueller-says/254687/
If you want to leverage SEO to drive traffic, yes, put it on the root domain in a folder.<p>Yes, Hubspot uses a subdomain, but you're not Hubspot.
Neither is especially <i>hard</i><p>I have done (and do still, sometimes) both<p>Sometimes I even have it in a subdirectory with a subdomain alias to get there<p>I do not think it ever <i>really</i> 'mattered' - all that mattered was how you wanted to think about it