SEO Tycoon

**gh05** · 12-31-2009, 09:48 AM

What I mean is this: I have a site whereby most of the content is not likely to change regularly. As part of my site I also want to set up a blog to keep the site up to date with news and progress etc. This I suppose should help me rank better in search engines as I will be generating a lot more new content.

My question is whether it would be better to have this blog on my own site or on blogspot (or some other site) so that I am regularly creating one way links to my own site?

Thanks.

**chrishirst** · 12-31-2009, 10:16 AM

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This I suppose should help me rank better in search engines as I will be generating a lot more new content.

You suppose incorrectly.

WHY would you want to have an "external blog" which you then have to promote in order to get second hand links to your site??

**Brandon** · 12-31-2009, 10:52 AM

I'm not a fan of hosted blogs like blogger and wordpress.org
I would also suggest adding a blog to the same URL you're trying to promote.

**gh05** · 12-31-2009, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

You suppose incorrectly.

WHY would you want to have an "external blog" which you then have to promote in order to get second hand links to your site??

So what you're saying is just to keep the blog as another section within my site?

When I said that I just mean that i supposed having regular new content on my site would help it rank better.

**baxy** · 01-01-2010, 12:06 AM

It will be good to have a blog placed on your site. This will keep your content fresh and if you will write good content people will link you naturally and this is what search engines want.

**webcosmo** · 01-01-2010, 12:50 AM

So the question boils down to if external link is better then internal link.

I think there is a trade off here. If you have it on same domain, it would have extra content credit. Plus internal linking. If you have it outside you would just have external link credit. Based on this I would say internal blog would be better.

**chrishirst** · 01-01-2010, 06:40 AM

There's some imaginative stuff going on here!

Extra content credit???? what the hell is that???

SO

If external links are "better" wouldn't it make more sense to have the links you hope to get to the "blog" pointing to the main site instead?

**bigcat1967** · 01-01-2010, 09:49 AM

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I'm not a fan of hosted blogs like blogger and wordpress.org
I would also suggest adding a blog to the same URL you're trying to promote.

I'm in agreement. However, I do have a client that has an "external blog" that is very popular with people within her industry. She doesn't see on her blog - but talks about the industry. However, she does promote her "money site" and we get a lot of traffic and conversions from her blog.

**gh05** · 01-01-2010, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

There's some imaginative stuff going on here!

Extra content credit???? what the hell is that???

SO

If external links are "better" wouldn't it make more sense to have the links you hope to get to the "blog" pointing to the main site instead?

Ok I'm even more confused. What do you think I should do Chris?