forums.site.com or site.com/forums

I’ve seen a lot of discussion on the subdomain debate. I was wondering if anyone had any opinion on forums.

What would everyone recommend? forums.site.com or site.com/forums ? Does it matter and if so then why?

Also, would keyword-forums be better in either place, ie: keyword-forums.com or site.com/keyword-forums

 

site.com/forums if you want both in the Co-op

forums.site is you think it might get huge and deserves its own server one day.

Besides that, It doesn't really matter.

 

I've set my forums up as site.com/forums in an effort to increase each site's content.

 

I was leaning towards forums.site. You're saying that I couldn't display ads from the Co-op if I did that though? I've read several of the FAQs but I never saw that. Can you explain a little more please? Thank you.

I read this.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=71449&postcount=9

 

I think you would have to consolidate the accounts as each would be considered an individual site...is that right?

 

I think what he meant is the ease of setting up coop network on "site/forums". Otherwise you have to create two coop account and setup each one and then bind them together for full advantage.

 

No, you're not allowed to sign up subdomains, as Shawn explains in the quoted post. So if you go for the subdomain, you say goodbye to having Co-op there.

 

Is it possible to have 2 accounts then?

 

IMO, it does matter. Some search engines like Google like sites that are bigger and have more content. By going the www.site.com/forum/ route your site becomes more interesting to the SE's. It's better SEO that way.

 

I agree w/ smindsrt.

Plus I think it helps people that type URL's into the location bar.

 

Not on subdomains off the same domain.

 

I respectfully disagree. I would wager SE's place a bit more value on the domain name than the path. I also find it much easier to type in forums.digitalpoint.com than I would www.digitalpoint.com/forums. And I almost always type it in manually...

As for the site content, I'm not sure I understand. As far as I've seen and read, subdomains get treated as part of the same site. They don't get sandboxed, and get full PR passed...