Subdomain vs. Subdirectories

[Shawn]

What do you guys prefer to use and why?

Either xyz.com/boo or boo.xyz.com?

[searcheurope]

From what I understand the major search engines do not like subdomains.

[Shawn]

I've been doing a lot of reading on this and I've seen that there isn't a difference as far as ranking is concerned. However, subdomains can be a real pain if your DNS is acting up, as each subdomain can be down too. Also, makes using mod_rewrite a little more tricky.

I'll stick with xyz.com/boo.

[mohammad]

Yes I have experience that search engines are not well with subdomains

Just some hosting specifications may be more for subdomains than subfolders such as ftp account, email setup ... etc

[Jenson]

Usually this subdomains do not rank well with search engine. I'm not sure about the actual reason they are doing that but it's got to do with their algorithms

[matthew.sastry]

I will always prefer to gotta go with folder instead of subdomain.

[matthew.sastry]

subfolder are just part of the site while subdomain is considered as a seperate website so if we create subdomain, we must know technically more details how to setup, configure etc. If we create a subfolder, nothing to worry. Just need to say to the hosting company that this is not working and they will rectify it without any additional charge.