New domain or Sub directory

Hi,

I was running a shopping site. I want to create a blog for my website. But i was bit confusing to create a blog. Anybody suggest me which one is good sub directory or new domain for shopping site ?

Thanks.

i would do it like this

mysite.com/blog/

So if somebody links to your blog it helps a little bit for your all domain ;)

Thanks for your reply...but if we create blog as a new domain then it may help us for back link to our site isn't?

i would do it like this

mysite.com/blog/

So if somebody links to your blog it helps a little bit for your all domain ;)


I agree to that !!!!!!! you can also try Blog.Mysite.com. That would be a good way to do it

Hi thanks...But Google treating subdomains much more like subdirectories of a domain isn't?

Assuming I understand what you're trying to say,

You'd be better having the blog under the wing of your main site as the others have said... http://www.site.com/blog.

If you host your blog on another domain, you've made your linkbuilding job twice as hard, or half as effective. It'll be more beneficial driving links and traffic to two areas on one site, where the links will count for the one domain - and the both the main site and blog will get a rub off each others links.

If you're hoping to get a valuable link back from your blog on a secondary domain, then you'll have to dedicate considerable time to attracting links to your blog before it'll become a useful/powerful link back to your main site (and it's just 1 link).

However, if you build links to your site/blog on the same domain, ALL those links you spend time developing will count towards your one (more important) domain.

Dan

Thanks Dan. Really it was helpful. But again I am having a question here. As I told you before, I am running a shopping site. I am going to start a Blog to post articles related to the products in my shopping site and Link back to that product page. My Question is what will be coming in SERP if a customer searches for a keyword?(My Shopping site or My Blog). If Blog link came in SERP, then the customer may think that it was a Blog site and not a shopping site.

That's true, in an ideal world I imagine the shopping page is the one you'd want ranking for the various terms. In this instance I'd be tempted to suggest that the shopping page also contains the review, background info, comments, images, etc. so that the user only needs to visit one page to get an entire overview of the product and purchase it.

If this would suffice, then potentially you don't really need a blog? What extra value is it adding?

Make the product page itself a hub of information on the product, everything the user may want to read in order to confidently purchase it. If you consider amazon, their page will contain the option to purchase, their own review, customer reviews, related products, also purchased, etc. There isn't really a need to blog about the product, you can say everything you need to about a product on the one page.

You can then dedicate your time to getting links to fewer pages, and hopefully others will talk about the product and link to you - as your one page per product has absolutely all the information a reader might want to know?

OR - perhaps you have alternative intentions for the blog, over and above what I've mentioned?

Dan

Hi Dan your answer was very clear, but my main intention to create a blog is for link building

Before going on to answer your question, I'd like to ask you what your end objective is?

If you'd like to create a blog as a value-add to your shopping site customers (as indicated by you above), where you provide them with information about products and other deals, et all, I'd recommend going the route Dan suggested, since you're giving your customers all that they need at one single point, rather than allowing to click through various pages to reach here, which will also impact your conversions!

If you'd like to do it for link building purposes, then since you're going to be working on generating links to your blog, you much rather have it as a sub-domain or an addition to your main site, since the benefit will rub on to your main site as well. You don't want to spend all your time only building links for two separate domains!

Just trying to understand. Importance will be measured in the following way:

Most important: keywords in domain name
Second most important: keyword in subdomain
Least: Keyword in rest of the URL.

Am I right? This information would helpful for my client.

Thank you,
Ravi.