Subdomain or subfolder, which is better for SEO?

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Explains whether subdomains or subfolders are better for SEO and provides general best practices.

Linked by 63 independent sites, 14 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including hostpoint.ch, ahrefs.com, semrush.com, moz.com, elementor.com.