Say you are the owner of example.com with a wiki at www.example.com/wiki Say
you decide to move the wiki to it's own subdomain: wiki.example.com/wiki.
Would there necessarily be any "hit" on SEO assuming you implement
permanent redirects at the www site?

Or, in your experience, is it best to proxy [0] the subdomain from the www
site so that to users, it still appears that the content and wiki service
is located in the original path.

One example I found for a blog [1] tells a story of adverse SEO experience,
but doesn't exactly pin down the cause.  The 'Moz' guide advice on this
[2]  is 10 years old -- so "conventional wisdom" but I'm not sure that it
holds today.

[0]
location ^~ /wiki/ {

  proxy_pass https://wiki.example.com/wiki/;
  proxy_intercept_errors on;
  # serve custom 404 page from corp site instead of wiki 404
  error_page  404  /errors/404.html;
  # allow the wiki to pass caching headers instead of using nginX
  expires off;
}

[1]
https://iwantmyname.com/blog/seo-penalties-of-moving-our-blog-to-a-subdomain
[2] https://moz.com/blog/seo-guide-how-to-properly-move-domains

Thanks,

Greg Rundlett
https://eQuality-Tech.com
https://freephile.org
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