{"id":167,"date":"2026-06-07T22:21:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T22:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2026-06-07T22:21:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T22:21:36","slug":"web-subdirectory-vs-subdomain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/07\/web-subdirectory-vs-subdomain\/","title":{"rendered":"Web: subdirectory vs subdomain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Subdirectories and subdomains can be used to organize web content. What are they, and how are they used?<\/h3>\n<p>\nThe following is my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nLet&#8217;s imagine a site called site101.tld101. In such a case, tld101 is the top-level-domain or tld. The domain, aka root domain, is site101.tld101.  Furthermore, site101.tld101\/blog is a subdirectory.<\/p>\n<p>\nImagine then the address uppersite.site101.tld101. In that case, uppersite is a subdomain.<\/p>\n<p>\nSubdomains, it seems, are seen by search engines as separate sites from the domains they are hosted on. A subdomain, therefore, can be used to host separate content from what&#8217;s on the root domain. A subdirectory, on the other hand, is treated by search engines as part of the root domain site.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lovable.dev\/guides\/what-is-a-subdomain\">lovable.dev\/guides<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.namecheap.com\/domains\/full-tld-list\/\">namecheap.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\">-JS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subdirectories and subdomains can be used to organize web content. What are they, and how are they used? The following is my understanding. Let&#8217;s imagine a site called site101.tld101. In such a case, tld101 is the top-level-domain or tld. The domain, aka root domain, is site101.tld101. Furthermore, site101.tld101\/blog is a subdirectory. Imagine then the address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[49,50,47,48],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","tag-subdirectory","tag-subdomain","tag-tld","tag-top-level-domain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}