Re: Building Diverse Links to Many Pages of your site
Jim - I don’t think I would move any blogs and I am not sure I would make a new blog on a sub-domain. I see successful real estate blogs as sub-directories. This type seems to work well for building content and linking to interior pages. You just need to stay on topic. You can do all of your rants on your other blogs.
So you are asking what topic? With as many cities and townships you are shooting to rank in I think would make the blog “New Jersey Real Estate” themed.
Castlelady – Like I said earlier in the thread, you only get so much credit from repetitive links from the same domain. If you stay on topic you are building themed content for your site if your blog is within your site.
Additionally if you write good and interesting blog post people will link to you. So would you prefer a link to yourrealestatedomain(dot)com/blogpost.html or
yourblogdomain(dot)com/blogpost.html?
The only reason to have a blog in a sub-domain is should you stray of topic (theme) your site rankings won’t be affected. I have seen it work both ways.
Like I answered you in another PREN thread, Wordpress is hands down the best. I still think you should try blogging before making any investment. If you do decide to use it Wordpress is free. If you like blogging just pay a designer to “skin” you blog and you loose nothing.
It’s like test driving a Hummer for a few months before you buy. You will either love it or hate it.
~Mack
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