SEO blog backlinking 2 domains

  • Hello WP Forums! Haven’t been in here in almost 10 yrs. Ole boy how WP has changed for the better, all those old dawgs know what I mean.

    Background: I have a client who runs on an online printing platform where you can order online business cards etc. I was asked to build a WP blog site for increasing traffic the main site, however, the platform did not allow for blog integration.

    So I bought a domain and hosting for the blog . Ideally, I would link (1-text link) in a blog post back to the main site (but not possible). So now I have in essence 2 links I could go back to from a blog post, this one for example: /2020/01/20/how-gr-print-is-capitalizing-on-the-specialty-printing-trend/ link back to another domain?

    The Question: Can someone please chime in a solution to how best to utilize this new blog for SEO purposes? What do you suggest? Do I link back to the blog site from a blog post or do I link back to the main site? Unfortunately, there is no option to keep the blog internally where the main site is hosted.

    I have read across the net that it does not make much of a difference or that having 2 separate domains will render no benefit to making this setup useless for increasing traffic. What does www.remarpro.com say about this dilemma?

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
    • This topic was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Jan Dembowski.

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  • I’m surprised you didn’t just hang the blog off of a subdomain like blog dot grprint dot com. It’s easier to just hang a subdomain off of your present DNS records then to worry about a second domain. Save that 10 dollar annual registration fee for something useful.

    As far as SEO goes…

    I’d worry more about the blog being of service to your client’s customers.

    Links? Where do you want people to wind up at? The blog where they already are or the main site where they can spend their money?

    So, I’d put a marque crawler on the top of the main website… have that announce the blog and link to the blog if they want to read something.

    On the blog, I’d say ‘ready to order?’… provide a link.

    SEO? I wouldn’t get real excited about SEO on the blog but I’m not a big fan of SEO except to be friendly to the search engines when they come calling… that’s all SEO is anyway.

    Install Yoast and let it guide you.

    Thread Starter Anthony

    (@freddyboy377)

    I’m surprised you didn’t just hang the blog off of a subdomain like blog dot grprint dot com. It’s easier to just hang a subdomain off of your present DNS records then to worry about a second domain.

    So where would you host the blog? That’s my biggest issue since they are not allowing me to place the blog on the platforms server where GRPrint resides. Maybe you missed that point or I’m missing an important point in your reply. This was the reason why I went ahead and bought a domain and hosting for the blog. Thank you for your reply.

    I actually spoke to the hosting company for bloggrprint.com soon after posting here. And they did mention that I could create a sub-domain without any issue but again the blog would not be hosted together with GRPrint.com. I would in essence still be stuck with working with two separate hosting services.

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