Question Keep a separate blog on separate domain or have a blog on ur website? - Virtual Assistant Forums

#1 (**permalink**) 02-17-2009

Which way is best for SEO...to have a blog with a separate domain like www.Yourdomainname/blog.com or to have a blog directly located on the client's company website?

I have a client who has a site in his company domain name but when I click on his blog, the name of the blog is not the same as his domain name; it's something all together different. So I feel that needs to be changed.

In the meantime, we've been talking about getting him a domain such as I mentioned above and host it separately from his website.

Would this give him better exposure or should the blog be attached to the website? (He may have to change the name of the blog to match the website.) But I am not sure way would be best.

Jan

#2 (**permalink**) 02-17-2009

I read somewhere, possibly on this site, that it's better for SOE to have a blog hosted on your site rather than having it hosted somewhere else. That's also one of the things taken into account here:

http://website.grader.com/

#3 (**permalink**) 02-17-2009

I'm speaking specifically about Wordpress here, but I know there are plug-ins for Wordpress that enhance SEO. Has he had his blog for a long time? In SEO terms, there's a lot of value in keeping a site or blog that has been indexed for awhile and has been consistently updated. When you start changing things up or start over, you sort of lose that history. Also, if you put some work into it you could make a blog look really great and have it function as your website as well (saves time vs. updating both a website and a blog).

BUT...I think that both you and Michelle are correct in that the prevailing thought is that you should have a blog within your website if possible. Just giving some other thoughts to add in the mix...

Angie

#4 (**permalink**) 02-17-2009

I recall when I viewed the www.becomeablogger.com video from a suggestion here on VAF, the instructor said it was better to have a blog located on a separate domain outside the website. So that is where I got that thought from.

Angie, no he hasn't had the blog for very long so there is no history that's why I want to make it right for him now.

Jan

#5 (**permalink**) 02-17-2009

Jan - The much respected HubSpot.com and a bunch of others all recommend absolutely positively always no exceptions host your blog on your own website. I went against their advice for a year, but have now moved my blog over to my site, because I want my site, and not Wordpress (God bless 'em), to get the SEO credit for it. A blog that's regularly updated is hugely more active than the average website, and search engines love activity. So a blog on your site = higher search engine rankings = better traffic.

#6 (**permalink**) 02-18-2009

I also took the advice of HubSpot and others and recently moved my website and blog from free sites to a paid host so that I could host my wordpress.org blog on my own site. Everyone says this is best for SEO. We'll see how it works

#7 (**permalink**) 02-18-2009

I'm not making myself very clear, sorry about that.

My question is whether the blog should be separately hosted (paid host) with a domain like www.Yourdomain/blog.com
or should the blog be on the website with the same domain name. Or it doesn't matter?

I'm not referring to any of the free blog sites as being the outside blog and then creating one on the website.

Jan