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        • geoff8151
          geoff8151 last edited by

          We have a blog internally at kay-grant.com/blog and also created an external blog at ActiveRain.com

          Is it okay to post the same blog posts to both sites or should I have different content for each blog?

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          • EGOL
            EGOL last edited by

            The only safe move here is to create amazing content for both blogs - but why have 2 blogs? Why double your effort when you could be using all the content to prop up the main site?

            Andy makes a very good point here.  If you have a good article about Brass Widgets on your website and you decide that you want to write a second Brass Widgets article to publish on another website, then you are going to publish a second article that will compete with you and take some of your traffic.

            Even if the articles are slightly different or very different they will still be "competing" - either at the short tail keyword level or the long tail keyword level.   The result will be damaging to your traffic.  The amount of damage will be proportional to the strength difference of your domains and  the diversity of keywords in the articles.  If the second domain is a lot more powerful than your own domain you could lose almost all of your traffic to the second website.

            I have a website that publishes only unique articles.  Some of those articles have been written by other people in my industry who have similar articles or entire websites about the topics that they gave me to publish.  I never asked any of these people to write an article for my website.  Every one of them came to me with an offer.  With content written by these other authors, my website frequently outranks their website for primary and secondary keyword of the industry.  They might have a website that is powerful for the topic, but I have a website that is authoritative in the industry.  It can be hard to predict who will win at different levels but my site now competes and brings in lots of traffic for topic areas where I have never written.

            Publishing on your own site, as Andy suggests, builds the strength of your site and does not invite potentially strong competitors into your keyword space.   There are benefits of sharing articles.  You get exposure as an "expert" on another website, which might have amazing traffic that includes visitors who will seek you out to do business.  You can often get a link on those websites that  will send lots of traffic to your website.  The best situation for all is if you simply want to get your message out to as many people as possible, but if there are competitive concerns then you must weigh the value of a link with the value of the exposure and the risk of a very strong competitor moving permanently into your space.

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            • Andy.Drinkwater
              Andy.Drinkwater @geoff8151 last edited by

              That's the wrong way to try and gain backlinks Geoff. You want to build links to your main site, but you want to be creating something in one place that is going to benefit you. An external site that then links back to you from duplicated content wont do it for you.

              Good linkbuilding takes time, and it starts with your content - write something that is better than others have and take to social media to promote it.

              I could honestly write a book about link building - it is that involved, but start by perfecting content that others will want to share and link to.

              -Andy

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              • JordanLowry
                JordanLowry @geoff8151 last edited by

                I publish blogs on my company's blog and sometimes I will take that same topic and expand on a few key points that were previously discussed. Andy is correct though you need to create unique content especially if you want to use the blog to obtain backlinks.

                Next time you write a blog try to take a topic you covered and go further in depth and see what new information you can come up with instead of duplicating the content.

                Hope that helps some.

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                • geoff8151
                  geoff8151 @JordanLowry last edited by

                  This is indexed by search engines.  When I say internal I just mean hosted on the domain.

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                  • geoff8151
                    geoff8151 @Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

                    Hi Andy,

                    Thanks for the response!  My thought behind this is to develop backlinks.

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                    • Andy.Drinkwater
                      Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

                      Hi Geoff,

                      This isn't best practice at all. You don't want to have two or more copies of anything anywhere.

                      I don't even think that re-purposing any of the articles would be a good move.

                      Imagine that you are Google - if you see the same article in more than 2 places, what do you do? Penalise one site? Realise that both sites are owned by you and punish both sites? Don't show either article in a good position?

                      The only safe move here is to create amazing content for both blogs - but why have 2 blogs? Why double your effort when you could be using all the content to prop up the main site?

                      -Andy

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                      • JordanLowry
                        JordanLowry last edited by

                        Unique content would be preferred. Is the internal blog being indexed within search engines or is it just for employees?

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