Best place to have blog reside
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So... I have a fairly new wordpress blog at myblog.com, but the ultimate goal is to drive traffic and increase rankings for mysite.com.
With the rise of twitter/facebook influences do you think best to migrate the blog to a directory within www.mysite.com aka www.mysite.com/blog and then 301 direct all the existing pages to the new pages created or is it better to keep the 2 domains seperate and then just have links in the navigation of both sites to each other?
My initial thoughts are to incorporate it within www.mysite.com/blog but not 100% sure?
Quick follow up question.. Is there an easy code snipit to add to the .htaccss file to 301 direct myblog.com to mysite.com/blog?
Thanks for any help and thought on this!
John
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I agree with the other responders here. As long as it's on-topic, it's generally best to put your blog in a subfolder and keep everything on the same domain.
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I agree we always put the blogs on mysite.com/blog to build the main site.
Another option that is done is to get a keyword rich domain for the blog and try to rank on that keyword - the down side is you now are doing seo on 2 sites and your blog isnt branded as yours.
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Though it depends on how much authority you've been able to build with the old myblog.com domain, it is typically much better to keep everything on one site to consolidate your links and increase brand awareness.
If you don't have too many pages and links on the old domain, I would recommend following your gut and using 301 redirects to conserve most of your authority on mysite.com/blog.
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