Which is better for your site: internal or external blog?

12 years ago

I prefer internal blog as a subdomain or folder.If you make it as external, you need to promote two websites but if you use internal, you don't need to optimize both of them.

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paulgl

10 years ago

Originally Posted by socialbookmark

I prefer internal blog as a subdomain or folder.If you make it as external, you need to promote two websites but if you use internal, you don't need to optimize both of them.

That makes no sense. A subdomain is a separate website.

Get yourself a blogspot blog. It's gold, and expands your internet footprint.

I think people here have a complete misunderstanding of subdomains.

Now if you want to make it a sub page, it just gives you more content.
But it's got to be somewhat different content or what's the point?

You want your blog to expand your linking possibilities. External blogs,
especially blogspot, do that to a tee.

I would never create an internal blog. No point. Instead of a blog post,
I would just create another article.

Put a link to the blog on your main site, instant high PR link. Link back to
the site from your blog, instant backlink.

Expand your own online empire and you expand your backlinking possibilities.

Paul

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Dr los3

10 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

That makes no sense. A subdomain is a separate website.
No it is not, you're wrong. It counts as an internal link, you were correct in a couple years back
Get yourself a blogspot blog. It's gold, and expands your internet footprint.
Leaving a footprint behind isn't always a good thing

I think people here have a complete misunderstanding of subdomains.
I think you do too

Now if you want to make it a sub page, it just gives you more content.
But it's got to be somewhat different content or what's the point?

You want your blog to expand your linking possibilities. External blogs,
especially blogspot, do that to a tee.

I would never create an internal blog. No point. Instead of a blog post,
I would just create another article.
Are those technically the same thing

Put a link to the blog on your main site, instant high PR link. Link back to
the site from your blog, instant backlink.

Expand your own online empire and you expand your backlinking possibilities.

Paul

Be careful with building backlinks from your own resources You need to take pre cautions, trust me id love to just use my own external sites/blogs to link back to my money site. There are ways to do it correctly, and ways to do it incorrectly. ..

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TheProgrammer

12 years ago

agree with the above suggestion.
create like this
yoursite.com/blog
blog.yoursite.com

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antac

Banned 12 years ago

To me i think internal blog is the best way.
Because I don't need any extra website for that . Just can use as a sub domain.

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mmrumii

12 years ago

Internal blog is easy for all and it's perfect way I think.
Cause you don't have to add any new site. If you can do it in one website , it'll be costless also. I don't think it will make problem to SEO.

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alxvallejo

10 years ago

Does installing a blog on a subdomain or subfolder affect the organic ranking of the other pages at all?

Example, if you install WordPress at the root of your website, your performance will suffer because you're loading an entire application at the root level. I'm not quite sure how this would impede when you install in a subfolder. Anyone have experience with this?

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Varz

10 years ago

Originally Posted by alxvallejo

Does installing a blog on a subdomain or subfolder affect the organic ranking of the other pages at all?

Example, if you install WordPress at the root of your website, your performance will suffer because you're loading an entire application at the root level. I'm not quite sure how this would impede when you install in a subfolder. Anyone have experience with this?

This isn't entirely true. You can still get great performance out of a site running wordpress as long as you set it up correctly and use some of the caching plugins/tools that are out there. For example, you can have a static homepage with wordpress and have extremely fast load times.

If you install wordpress in a subfolder it will mostly affect performance only for pages in that subfolder. As the server will only call wordpress when a page from that subfolder is being accessed. But again, if you set it up correctly it runs very fast.

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alxvallejo

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Varz

This isn't entirely true. You can still get great performance out of a site running wordpress as long as you set it up correctly and use some of the caching plugins/tools that are out there. For example, you can have a static homepage with wordpress and have extremely fast load times.

If you install wordpress in a subfolder it will mostly affect performance only for pages in that subfolder. As the server will only call wordpress when a page from that subfolder is being accessed. But again, if you set it up correctly it runs very fast.

If we're talking a page one site that loads in under half a second, any slight increase in page size can affect ranking. Not the case for many situations but as a whole, it's something to consider. Cache at the server level is still a larger page load, just served up faster, but tough to compete with 250kb.

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strategic seo services

10 years ago

Having an internal blog is more beneficial to your website. You can strengthen the domain's rankings by interlinking the pages using targeted anchor text and linking back to the homepage. Then, build backlinks to those interlinked, internal pages of your site (Tier2). This is a very powerful and effective linking strategy.

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QWE

10 years ago

Originally Posted by strategic seo services

Having an internal blog is more beneficial to your website. You can strengthen the domain's rankings by interlinking the pages using targeted anchor text and linking back to the homepage. Then, build backlinks to those interlinked, internal pages of your site (Tier2). This is a very powerful and effective linking strategy.

Good point. I would also rephrase the content and place it on high authority forums, place a link from the forum to your website blog page and place backlinks to the forums.

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josh22

10 years ago

Hello,
Ideally, both options are great online marketing strategies. Creating blogs both inside and outside of your website will help the overall effectiveness of your SEO content and linking strategies, if you have the resources to maintain blogs on a variety of subjects.

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alxvallejo

10 years ago

Originally Posted by josh22

Hello,
Ideally, both options are great online marketing strategies. Creating blogs both inside and outside of your website will help the overall effectiveness of your SEO content and linking strategies, if you have the resources to maintain blogs on a variety of subjects.

I don't see how creating a blog outside your website helps your main site's SEO. The new blog would have almost zero link authority to link back to your main site. It would be for attracting new audiences, not SEO.

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himanshiets02

10 years ago

i also think internal blogs are more important

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Robinsh123

10 years ago

A blog part of your main site would help your site rank higher in the search engines so you should consider having a internal one.

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nettiapina

10 years ago

Originally Posted by The Offline Oracle

External: builds links back to your main website from a different IP address and potentially a high PR page (unsure of the value of high PR pages these days).

There's no high PR page in this equation unless you build it yourself. It's a new blog on a new subdomain, and the blogging service isn't probably linking to it.

I like my blogs as part of the main site, but not necessarily in a central role. It might be just a humble sub page with a simple link in the main nav instead of something that takes up the whole front page. When the blog is part of the site the "earned" backlinks also point directly back to your site.

If you use blog services it's a good idea to use your own domain or subdomain (blog.mysite.com instead of mysite.wordpress.com). That way you're in the charge of your URL space.

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dgui123451

10 years ago

My preference would be to which ever one provides high page rank back links for your website. From my experience high page rank back links drastically affects your Google search page rankings. The more high PR back links you have for your website the better your presence will be on Google search engine and this will allow your website to have a page 1 ranking for certain keywords.

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guitarizma

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by The Offline Oracle

Been wondering about this one for a while. Which benefits your main website, an internal blog (as part of your website) or an external one (mysite.wordpress.com)?

Internal: builds rank for your domain on the keywords you are targeting.
External: builds links back to your main website from a different IP address and potentially a high PR page (unsure of the value of high PR pages these days).

Pity subdomains don't count higher to parent domain or you could just install WordPress on another hosting package.

Google Algos have changed a lot and they are smarter now. Internal blogs are your best bet.

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twilightofidols

10 years ago

I'm of the opinion that you should create an internal blog on a sub folder of your root domain.

By blogging on your site, you'll constantly be putting out fresh content, and ideally you'll increase your search visibility when that content ranks for a variety of long tails and in turn you'll increase overall traffic to the site.

With a blogger, or wordpress.com site there are quite a few disadvantages. You don't have control over the platform. Free blogs are liable to be deleted without warning.

Not to mention, if someone decides to link to your blog that precious link juice isn't going to flow directly to your money site instead it's going to flow through the buffer probably decreasing the overall benefit.

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reddy183

10 years ago

Hi,

Internal blog is the way which every is preferred. Regular updating blog will help you in search engine crawling your website frequently.

Regards,
Reddy Sekhar,
SEO Analyst.

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RandySwanston

10 years ago

Internal blogs are best if you are looking for long term benefits. Never create a blog as a sub domain, it is treated as a separate domain, instead create a folder called "blog" and install wordpress or whatever you are familiar with, so that it looks like "yoursite.com/blog" . This is proven to work and many big brands use this kind of structure for their blogs.

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jmwang

10 years ago

I prefer internal blog as a subdomain,because the internal blog is a good way for search engine crawling and user experience!

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EmilyMace 10 years ago

Originally Posted by jmwang

I prefer internal blog as a subdomain,because the internal blog is a good way for search engine crawling and user experience!

Internal blogs are better for a site but both are totally opposite of each-other. We use internal blogs on our site and external blogs while doing SEO. Internal blogs attracts users and generate direct traffic.
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GoranaSmith

10 years ago

If i were you, i would go with an internal blog for my website. It is not just good for better search engine crawling and internal links, but will also guarantee readers for your blog.

It can be very difficult to bring traffic on your newly created external blog. However, you can also create a blog on blogger.com, if you want to get the benefits of both internal and external blogs. There is no need t purchase a separate domain.

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ankushkohli

10 years ago

My words are exactly like: GoranaSmith.

Please go-ahead with internal blog. All the best!

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MyFirstAidCompany

10 years ago

I also prefer the internal blog and i think most of the web masters are using it.

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martinluther

10 years ago

Internal blog mostly describe the different aspects of the commerce. But, in external blogs, content related to the business category are posted. so, both kind of blogs are important.

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SEO Power

10 years ago

An internal blog will benefit from the authority of the homepage but an external blog won't. Posts published on internal blogs will therefore rank faster than external ones.

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Masondavis

10 years ago

Internal blog is the way which every is preferred. Regular updating blog will help you in search engine crawling your website frequently.

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