Can I put my blog on my root domain using HubSpot?

Root domain vs sub domain for my blog

 

You meed Marketing Pro to be able to host your blog and this can only be done on a sub domain (Angelfish Fieldwork is set up like this)

You need HubSpot CMS to be able to host a blog on your top level root domain

(Angelfish Marketing is set up like this)


There is lot of debate in the SEO world on blogs living on sub-domains. Google will see this as a new domain so you’re growing it from scratch. If your blog has lots of traffic and rankings, you should consider this carefully. You can consider starting a new blog on the sub domain and moving the old blog to the footer or eslewhere on the site so ranking are retained. 

This might be a useful resource too: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/subdomains-vs-subfolders-seo/239795/#close 

This is Matt Cutt’s video on the subject below who was head of SEO at Google. He says there is no difference, but like I say, lots of debate on this one.  

https://youtu.be/_MswMYk05tk 

    

Benefits of putting blog on HubSPot:

  • Control of publishing be marketing team
  • Control of SEO 
  • Great user interface - easy publishing for marketing team
  • Joined up analytics to understand performance on your blog better