content.mysite.com vs mysite.com/content.html

Hi I am building a large content site and was wondering which url format do you think is the best for seo

applepie.mysite.com
chickensoup.mysite.com

or

mysite.com/applepie.html
mysite.com/chickensoup.html

The actual pages are mysite.com/article.php?id=1 but I am going to use mod_rewrite to get the friendly urls. Will this work?

 

use the second one. its more search engine friendly. Google treats applepie.mysite.com as a completely different domain than mysite.com. with its own trust rank and pagerank. with the second option trust is passed to the subpages.

 

Use the first if the content is mostly unrelated, the second if the content is similar. Big sites rank better, so long as it's similar content.

 

Partially agree with mdvaldosta, but only use the first if the main and sub have no relationship, not the content is similar or not. For the second one, things in chickensoup.htm shall be part of the whole website.

 

I'd especially steer clear of subdomains after the whole 5 billion spam subdomains indexed marlarky.

 

This isn't true anymore. If you do a site: search now, Google returns subdomains too, indicating it treats them as the same site. This is pretty recent.

 

I do not think there's a big difference between the two.. I would prefer the second one thou