MyDomain.com/forum or forum.MyDomain.com? Which one is better?

[IMpossible]

Will it hurt my rankings when I put my forum on MyDomain.com/forum?
Which one of the both types do you prefer?
forum.MyDomain.com or MyDomain.com/forum?

 

[Deleted member 209614]

Will it hurt my rankings when I put my forum on MyDomain.com/forum?
Which one of the both types do you prefer?
forum.MyDomain.com or MyDomain.com/forum?

i prefer mydomain.com/your-keyword-forum

 

[IMpossible]

i prefer mydomain.com/your-keyword-forum

Can you be more specific?

 

[ocrasorm]

Use forum after domain name. This will help you more.

 

[goodperson]

I vote for MyDomain.com because it's easy to remember for people.

 

[IMpossible]

I'm worrying of creating a high OBL count from my domain when I put it on /forum...
Wouldn't this hurt my overall site rankings?
Users will post links to all kinds of content (related or not related to the topic)...

 

[SEO FOX]

yourdomain.com/yourforum is the best way i prefer for you friend

 

[RuthSam]

We tested this in the past with our forum, actually it doesn't matter at all!

 

[Saint Zeus]

I think I agree with what the guys said Yourdomain/forum is better

 

[IMpossible]

The most authority sites I checked were using "forum.domain.com", I guess this is for SEO reasons + makes it easier to move the forum on a dedicated machine later on when the server can't handle the request load of Website + Forums put together.

 

[Black.Cat]

The most authority sites I checked were using "forum.domain.com", I guess this is for SEO reasons + makes it easier to move the forum on a dedicated machine later on when the server can't handle the request load of Website + Forums put together.

This. Most of popular forums i know do forum.domain.com as well.