Q&A: SEO: Is it better to host your blog internally or externally in regards to SEO purposes?
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Question by b1911: SEO: Is it better to host your blog internally or externally in regards to SEO purposes?
I know external blog will help with backlinks.. but internal blogs will generally build your website … so which is better for search engine optimization purposes?
Best answer:
Answer by VicSEO
The best SEO strategy is to host your website to an external host provider which has a “preferential” PageRank with Google, the supposed no. 1 search directory in the world. In this case, go to AOL.com and check the hosting prices on their “business” server. And do likewise with hosting packages from SBC/AT&T’s business branch, who also have a “preferential” SEO agreement with Yahoo. Failing to exercise this “preference” host strategy will ever leave your domain named website among the lower ranking websites on these two top search engines.
Good luck!
What do you think? Answer below!
The above recommendation is 1/2 false. If you have a blog for personally purposes then host it anywhere. In reality, any business/product based blog (or something you’re going to try to make some cash off) should be hosted on its own.
That means go buy a domain name and go host it somewhere.
It DOES NOT matter what the corresponding PR of the host is. You have to build incoming backlinks and relevance to your blog yourself.
Keep the blog as part of your main web site … http://www.yourdomain.com/blog will be fine. In doing so, both your blog and web site will share all the benefits of your inbound links. No need to spread those link benefits over two separate domains, unless you absolutely have to.
pleeker is correct. The above fellows did not understand the question correctly. You should ALWAYS host your own blog on the same host as your site. Many people have their site (with godaddy for example) then have a second domain for their blog (like blogspot.com). Thats shooting yourself in the foot. Now you’re trying to get exposure for both websites and taking twice as long and twice the amount of work.
Keep your blog on your sites hosts.
Keith
On Top Results, Inc.
http://www.ontopresults.com
I belive there is no real difference because if you have an external blog where everybody links to or whether everybody links directly to your internal blog page it will be the same in result, important is to get links pointing to the blog page whether it is internal or external. An internal blog does not really build your website in the sense that I feel you are referring to this. Every page of your website is seen as a unique document hence it does not really help your domain to have many pagerank0 internal pages. Hence it is not the quality of these internal links it is the quality.
If you want to discuss this and other topics related to seo, sem and webdesign feel free to join my forum http://webdesign-mefisto.aceboard.com/ We can then again discuss this issue in depth.
Hope to see you there soon
Ultimately, you are better off hosting your own blog if you want to keep your site for the long haul. Even if you obtained good rankings, there is no guarantee that your blog won’t be shut down by the powers that be in the event that you have violated one of there obscure guidelines. This happened to me when hosting a blog on WordPress. Even worse, it was a blog that made over $1,000 per month on auto-pilot so it really hurt. I re-hosted the blog, but lost all of the indexed pages, and the 200+ daily visitors that came from the search engines.
There are plenty of good place to promote blogs such as http://www.pingomatic.com but just having it on your own server will give you more stability.
Anthony
http://www.WebTrafficTeam.com