Hi Guys, Please let me know what you think. My friend has a really good dating website (for geeks only ). He a pretty sure he's a dating expert and he want to build a new Blog site dealing with the dating and relations issues. As his personal SEO friend, I recommend him to add the blog to the existing Dating website (and not build a new website). What do you think?
That's ok too, but I personally prefer to build a new website for the blog. I get better results doing so.
I agree. From personal experience a new website with wordpress installed worked a lot better for me. And easier to manage
I think a new website would be better, though if he is keen on having them linked, then you could have them heavily interlinked.
why not blog.mysite.com ? I actually made my home page of my website a wp blog with a great 'portal' theme. Traffic increased 200% in four months.
Does this question really need to be asked? Putting the blog in his site is the obvious choice. If he does it separate, he then has to promote / advertise both of them, instead of just one. Why double his work? He has visitors going to his date site, and he can increase his conversion rate somewhat by advertising his blog there too. The longer they stay, the better his odds go up in making a sale. What's his url?
I am going to have to side with Copper12 on this. And as a subdomain like Lyn suggested. It is not a question of SEO, but branding. First you want to "ease" into it. And if he becomes wildly popular with his dating advice, then it is attached to the dating site. If he handles the blog outside of the domain on a seperate website, it may appear to be spammy date affiliate-like. If and when the blog does take off, with the sub-domain it will become easy to redirect Url-to-Url underneath another domain (if that is the route you want to take). But if the blog fails, any links accrued, at least has his dating site in the base Url.
Hi Guys, Like Cooper12 wrote, If we will separate the blog and the dating site, we'll need to advertise and promote the both websites. If we'll unite the both sites, the blog site will gain traffic and SE ranking faster. Please explain why do you think he needs to build a new website. I believe that someone which interested in the blog, usually would like to proceed the dating website.
if he will create new site he will also add content, building backlinks, getting visitors which is hard but if he will create blog in existing site then he just need to create backlinks and content. PR, PPC, Traffic everything depends on getting visitors.
Exactly right. Put the blog onto the existing website with a nice new button(blog) all your members have to do is click the button. I would not start from scratch will take months to start to get the traffic and comments.
Number one. You will still need to promote the blog whether it is part of the original site or not. Just adding a "big button" for the blog, like the previous poster suggested, does not constitute promotion. Chances are they will miss seeing it, if they are regulars to the dating site. I can tell you one reason why not to create a new website. The dating site is established. It is easier to get the blog off the ground and indexed rapidly if it is part of the same site (same server IP). Technically, setting the site up on a sub-domain ( ie blog.domain.com) makes it separate site. Case in point, many job boards are set up this way. The job boards are hosted by a third-party (SimplyHired for instance) on an external server. But if you keep your blog on the same server as the dating site, then it will get around that 'second site' stigma. Once the blog is established, with hopefully backlinks coming in from other blogs or websites, you can always move the site with a redirect. The redirect will carry all of your links and PR on over. A reason for doing this may be that the owner has other internet properties to promote (eBooks, sex enhancement herbs, etc.) In this case, the blog can drive those sites with valuable keyword text in posts ... without having the all of these external sites tightly associated with each other.