We currently have a blog inside our site, like say abc.com/blog We have been advised that it would be better to have the blog in a separate domain for a period, since it is easier to get links and following on a blog that is not openly connected to a commercial site. The plan in this case would be to move the blog inside the site after it has developed a good following and has a good ranking. So my questions are: 1) Should we follow this plan or leave the blog where it is? 2) If we move the blog should we leave a mirror of it on our site also (this would be easy to do since both sites have common hosting and so both could pull content from the same Wordpress database) 3) If we do not move it, how do we overcome the resistance people seem to have in linking to our articles? These are interesting and unique content articles that really deserve more attention than they are getting.
I would highly recommend the following: - use a subdomain (E.x. http://blog.yourwebsite.com); - move your blog on the new subdomain; - post a redirect 301 on the old url to point to the new URL (I will give more information about it); Dont worry about the PR or losing traffic, 301 means the content moved permanently to another location, posting this redirect in your .htacces will not only automatic redirect visitors to the new url (without they even know it), but will also tell to the webcrawlers(google, yahoo, bing) where the content has moved. Simply copy&paste this code (marked with red) in your .htaccess file: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourwebsite.com/blog RewriteRule (.*) http://blog.yourwebsite.com$1 [R=301,L] note: If you already have this->RewriteEngine On line in your .htaccess make sure not to add it again. have a great day, cheers !
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Like the 2nd poster said, put it on a subdomain, and 301 redirect your /blog to the subdomain. I don't really see why people are having trouble linking to a blog thats part of a commercial site, I've never encountered that problem. Maybe just send them the hyperlink or html code so they can just paste that in instead of doing it all themselves.