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Originally Posted by borked
Google et al couldn't give a shit. Stop spreading FUD.
There are no 'advantages' to using subfolders over subdomains. Quite the reverse - in a subdomain setting, you can hard code the url from the TLD and still end up at the subdomain, whereas you will NEVER get to a subdomain from the TLD....
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Sub-domains still are considered by Google and others to be separate sites, but as pointed out above, they are wiser is spotting abuses.
Sub-folders are better if you are building a hierarchy of related pages on the same main theme.
So, if you have a TLD and want to spin-off some new sites (and you can leverage the PR and authority of the www domain), sub-domains can get you plenty of SE traffic ... if you want to build a deep, solid, themed site where pages all help your PR, etc. then use sub-directories.