How important is it to put a BLOG on the top level of a DOMAIN in terms of Search Engine Optimization? It will help your blog be better indexed, besides you will pass one category in your URLs, for example "/blog", so it is a good idea. Quote: Originally Posted by jason830 How important is it to put a BLOG on the top level of a DOMAIN in terms of Search Engine Optimization? Not completely understanding your question. If you have a regular site and want to have a blog to go with it, then the programming of your blog software might (probably) interfer with the other pages.
Read this: Domain vs. Subdomain. It will help you decide where to put your supplemental blog. It all depends on what works for the theme of your site. HTML, this is actually a relevant question for SEO purposes. Let me explain. On my site, we use Wordpress as the index page , ie the front of the site. When I have really interesting stuff or important news, I post it to the front page. I relegate the blog (not the front page) to daily updates, and other stuff that I want out there but not on the front page of my site. Does this detract the usefulness of the blog pages that don't make it to the front page, but languish on the blog side of the site? For SEO's it is really important to have or use the keywords in the content . But it would be better if your main keyword is in your domain. So having your own domain is really a big help Quote: Originally Posted by caspernick HTML, this is actually a relevant question for SEO purposes. Let me explain. On my site, we use Wordpress as the index page , ie the front of the site. When I have really interesting stuff or important news, I post it to the front page. I relegate the blog (not the front page) to daily updates, and other stuff that I want out there but not on the front page of my site. Does this detract the usefulness of the blog pages that don't make it to the front page, but languish on the blog side of the site? If you are asking about the site in your signature, you have your blog as a category within Wordpress. I had to hunt for a link to your blog on your home page and noticed that it is not linked to on your other pages. I'd fix that so there are more incoming links to the blog plus make the link to the blog more obvious so people don't miss it.
If you read the link I had in my post it helps you determine what works best for your situation.
Don't want to hijack the jason830's thread so won't say anything more right now. TLD blogs increases value of blogs in eyes of Search Engine and User too which helps in increasing PR and SERP. Quote: Originally Posted by andrew1 TLD blogs increases value of blogs in eyes of Search Engine and User too which helps in increasing PR and SERP. The question is about the top level of the domain name not top level domains.
And, the value of a blog would be based on the quality of the content and the perceived authority of the author(s). You don't think any of Google's blogs (e.g. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/) are of any value? They are all on subdomains of blogspot.com. Another example is SEO Book. He has his blog in a folder within his domain (http://www.seobook.com/blog)
Read this: Domain vs. Subdomain. It will help you decide where to put your supplemental blog. It all depends on what works for the theme of your site. HTML, this is actually a relevant question for SEO purposes. Let me explain. On my site, we use Wordpress as the index page , ie the front of the site. When I have really interesting stuff or important news, I post it to the front page. I relegate the blog (not the front page) to daily updates, and other stuff that I want out there but not on the front page of my site. Does this detract the usefulness of the blog pages that don't make it to the front page, but languish on the blog side of the site? For SEO's it is really important to have or use the keywords in the content . But it would be better if your main keyword is in your domain. So having your own domain is really a big help Quote: Originally Posted by caspernick HTML, this is actually a relevant question for SEO purposes. Let me explain. On my site, we use Wordpress as the index page , ie the front of the site. When I have really interesting stuff or important news, I post it to the front page. I relegate the blog (not the front page) to daily updates, and other stuff that I want out there but not on the front page of my site. Does this detract the usefulness of the blog pages that don't make it to the front page, but languish on the blog side of the site? If you are asking about the site in your signature, you have your blog as a category within Wordpress. I had to hunt for a link to your blog on your home page and noticed that it is not linked to on your other pages. I'd fix that so there are more incoming links to the blog plus make the link to the blog more obvious so people don't miss it.
If you read the link I had in my post it helps you determine what works best for your situation.
Don't want to hijack the jason830's thread so won't say anything more right now. TLD blogs increases value of blogs in eyes of Search Engine and User too which helps in increasing PR and SERP. Quote: Originally Posted by andrew1 TLD blogs increases value of blogs in eyes of Search Engine and User too which helps in increasing PR and SERP. The question is about the top level of the domain name not top level domains.
And, the value of a blog would be based on the quality of the content and the perceived authority of the author(s). You don't think any of Google's blogs (e.g. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/) are of any value? They are all on subdomains of blogspot.com. Another example is SEO Book. He has his blog in a folder within his domain (http://www.seobook.com/blog)