I am amazed at how quickly and often my blogs are being crawled. The posts go up fast. I have seen some of my competitors add blogs to their sites while others (most) set up google blogspot blogs or seperate domains altogether. Two questions: Which, if either is better for seo? What benefit, if any is there to having multiple blogs as opposed to just one?
I can't help, but I was wondering the same thing, so hopefully someone will chime in. I have a website that I am considering adding a blog to.
I have three blogs that I am maintaining, adding content to,linking back to my primary website. It seems that having a website with an attached blog would be no different than adding articles and other content to the website. In other words six of one, half a dozen of the other. I just wonder if adding the word "blog" has any special magic to it?
I prefer setting up a subdomain and installing wordpress. The nice thing about that is I have the power to install different plugins, widgets, themes, and more. I have more control over the customization of my blog..Plus, if you're running a business a link to blogspot with a bunch of ads on it doesn't look to professional..JMHO
I would say it depends on your reason for having a blog. Many businesses would want their blog to be as professional looking as possible. So for them it only makes sense to put that blog on their domain too. For people trying to use a blog to improve search engine rankings, it may be better to host the blog on an established blog network. A blog hosted on blogspot already has some of the domain's authority behind it. So it can get rankings quite easily. This way you actually get some external links pointing to your website.