It depends how you get content for your blog. In my case, it’s mostly Q&A and my thoughts on tennis matches and players. So tennisthoughts is quite logical.

You could just called it birthblog or something like that. Or it could just be your name…

You can also Google child birth blog and similar keywords and get some ideas of domain names from other bloggers.

Or you can target one of the keywords from your research and get top ranking for it…

I linked once to my blog from a good PR3 page from my main site and a few times more. But in 90% of cases I link from the blog to the main site…

For example, I have a site about childbirth and postpartum, and in the future I’ll add some baby care stuff in the content of this website. What is the topic in my blog could be ? I mean … childbirth news ?? That’ll be weird, right ?

Also, do you link your blog from website, or do you most often link your website from your blog ?

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Dian

Yes, I suggest getting a new domain because you’ll be the real owner of it. The blogspot would work too – easier to learn then wordpress – although you never know when Google might mistake your blog for spam and delete it.

Also, you can’t sell the domain or the whole blog if it’s on blogspot – if you ever decide to do that. Get a hosting with bluehost or hostgator for $10 per month (or something like that when you can afford it), install wordpress (you can ask for a free install – there is a service for that, just Google it) and play with it to broaden your knowledge of internet marketing.

The more you know the more options you have. You don’t have all the eggs in the same basket if you catch my meaning…

The blog is on a different domain for three reasons:

1. So that links from the blog pointing to my main site count as EXTERNAL links. If you create a blog.websitename.com then the links come from the same site, just from a different part. Then they count as INTERNAL links – which is not as powerful.

2. So that the blog is “really a blog” which gives me better acceptance with other bloggers. (can exchange links, articles, accepted in blog directories, …)

3. So that I gain experience with WordPress. Never stop learning.

Your blog’s main intention is not to gain lots of visitors. It’s to build link popularity to your main site.

If your blog is pagerank 4 and has 2 daily visitors it will still help tremendously with links pointing to your main site.

I wanto to revive my blog, but I don’t think a blog on my niche will draw a lot of visitors, so I’m thinking of just annex it to my established website, in a form of subdomain.

YOur thought ?

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