Subdomain — blog.yoursite.com
- Quick — one CNAME record
- Google often treats it as a separate site
- Link and topical authority do not fully reach your main domain
- Fine when you cannot touch the main site server
Blog on your own domain
Your blog, on yoursite.com/blog. A subdirectory — not a subdomain.
Search engines treat a subdomain largely as a separate site, so its authority barely helps your main domain. VibeSEO publishes your AI-written blog as a subdirectory — yoursite.com/blog — so every post compounds the ranking power of your apex domain. One reverse-proxy rule and you are live.
How it compares
Subdirectory — yoursite.com/blog
- Same domain as the rest of your site
- Authority consolidates on your apex domain
- The strongest setup for ranking
- One reverse-proxy rule — nginx, Caddy, Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare…
Hosted elsewhere — medium.com, etc.
- You build a domain you do not own
- Little control over SEO and canonicals
- Hard to migrate the content later
What you get
Subdirectory = apex authority
yoursite.com/blog keeps every article on your main domain, so internal links and topical signals compound where they matter.
One proxy rule
Add a single reverse-proxy rule for /blog. We give copy-paste recipes for nginx, Caddy, Apache, Traefik, a Cloudflare Worker, Vercel, and Netlify.
Or start with zero setup
Publish instantly on the shared host, move to a subdomain with one CNAME, then to yoursite.com/blog when you are ready. Same content, your call.
Full SEO plumbing
Canonical URLs on your domain, sitemap.xml, robots.txt, Open Graph, and Article, Breadcrumb, and FAQ JSON-LD — all pointing at yoursite.com/blog.
Approve before it is live
AI drafts the posts; nothing publishes under your domain until you approve it.
See it rank
Search Console signals flow back per article once Google picks up the new URLs on your domain.
From research to indexed pages
VibeSEO keeps the human approval step, then handles the public surface search engines expect.
- Analyze
VibeSEO reads your site and market
Your pages, offer, audience, and search landscape inform which topics are worth pursuing.
- Draft
SEO-ready articles are prepared
Titles, meta descriptions, headings, FAQ blocks, internal links, and CTAs are built into each draft.
- Approve
You control what goes live
Review, edit, reject, or reschedule. Nothing publishes under your brand without approval.
- Publish
Pages go live on a crawlable blog
Approved articles render as indexable HTML — on the shared host, your subdomain, or yoursite.com/blog — with sitemaps, canonicals, and structured data.
- Track
Search signals flow back
Google Search Console data shows impressions, clicks, and progress at the article level.
Common questions
Is a subdirectory really better than a subdomain for SEO?
In most cases, yes. Google treats a subdomain (blog.yoursite.com) largely as a separate site, so its authority does not fully transfer to your main domain. A subdirectory (yoursite.com/blog) is the same site — links and topical authority compound on your apex domain. It is the stronger setup whenever you can add one proxy rule.
Do I need my own server?
You need to add one reverse-proxy rule in front of your domain — that covers nginx, Caddy, Apache, Traefik, a Cloudflare Worker, Vercel, and Netlify. If you cannot, use a subdomain (one CNAME) or the always-on shared host instead.
Does it work with Vercel, Netlify, or WordPress?
Yes. We provide a copy-paste rule for each — a rewrite on Vercel or Netlify, a Worker on Cloudflare, or a location block on nginx or Apache in front of WordPress.
What if I do not want to set up a proxy?
Every project gets an always-on URL on the shared host with no setup, and you can connect a subdomain with just a CNAME. Subdirectory is the SEO-optimal option, not the only one.
Will the rest of my site keep working?
Yes. Only the /blog path (and the blog assets) is routed to VibeSEO; the rest of your site is untouched.
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