Hey guys I've been considering folding some blogs I have and move them to a directory under my main site. For instance, instead of THISBLOG.COM I'd like to move it to MAINSITE.COM/THISBLOG/ I'd like to do this for various reasons, but I'm wondering what is the benefit and negative effects of doing this in relation to search engines? My thought is that, since my main site is pretty high in the SERPs, especially Google and others, that putting the blog under the main site would benefit it more than if it was on a seaprate domain, as it currently is. Any thoughts on this? P.S. The blog is relatively new, about 4 months, and it's just now started to arrive in Google thanks to the latest update. Would Google give higher priority to a site with its own domain, or a site under the directory of an already established, popular main site?
I would not even think about seo when making a decision like this. My advice: Put your blog onto a folder just in case you want to have something else for a homepage down the line. Mike
I'm not really concern about SEO, I'm just wondering if there's any advantages to having my blog under my main site. For example, it took about 3 months for my blog to finally get picked up by Google and start getting some traffic. I was going under the assumption that since my main site is in Google already, and pretty high in the SERPs, that putting another folder with the blog would get it spidered and show up in the SERPs faster. Anyways, those are just things I was thinking of when I was thinking about this. They could be completely wrong, of course. I'm kind of new at this.
If you put your blog into your site (and given that crawlers regularly spider your site), SE crawlers will also be able to visit your blog as much as they do to your site. But just be sure to 301 redirect from the old blog's domain so that the traffic you were getting from your blog's old domain would be informed that the blog moved and that you won't get penalized for keeping duplicate pages.