SEO: should you use subdomains or subfolders when planning your SEO strategy?

[mandy]

An SEJ Reader send in the following question :

Subdomains or Subfolders? What’s better for a blog/forum/etc: a subdomain (eg. http://jobs.searchenginejournal.com/) or subfolder (eg. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/)?

Subdomains and subfolders both have their advantages, especially when setting up blogs.

For blogs, I prefer a subfolder (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/) because the link juice which is sent to that blog is going to be naturally distributed to that main domain, and other subfolders under the domain...

full article: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/subdo...-seo/6849/