Niche Review site question

Monday, December 1st, 2008 at 2:00 pm

Today’s question:

I have a question regarding setting up a niche review blog along with a niche review site.

Would you recommend setting them up on separate domains or does it make sense to have the review site on http://www.MyReviewSiteDomain.com and put the blog on http://www.MyReviewSiteDomain.com/blog?

What are the pros and cons of those two options?

Thanks!

Nothing wrong with using the same domain for both a website and blog. Would probably rename the folder from blog to a keyword if I were going to install the blog there. A mistake I made a few years ago when starting this blog and too much trouble to correct at this point.

My question would be why do two sites?

A properly optimized blog would do better in the serps and would you be covering different topics in the two sites. That could cause some trouble with duplicate content.

Personally I would use just a blog with the proper plugins and tweaking to be SEO friendly and a good theme (like the Review Blog Theme).

Course I may be a bit biased .