Blogs with Forums

[Izaya]

I had been contemplating for a year now about doing a blog with my forum.....

Is the idea better to use a separate domain(I own like 10 lmao) OR use the blog as a subdomain?

I heard blogs can help with traffic and what not.

My reasoning for using a separate domain as to let the forum be the forum itself...it's own identity and let it stand as its own without people needing to do go to a separate domain.

The blog would of course have its own name/identity as well so those who want the blog can have their area specifically for them without my forum.

But idk if it is good or not to do it this way 🙂

 

[Scarface]

Well if the blog with be on the same niche as your forum, then joining it is best option. If its not then separate domain is the way to go.

 

[Izaya]

Well if the blog with be on the same niche as your forum, then joining it is best option. If its not then separate domain is the way to go.

Well yeah, it would be primarily about my niche(books) but since I was considering eventually expanding I thought about having it be for books, gaming, tv, movies, music, etc etc

 

[RH-Calvin]

A subdomain is the best option that you can have for a forum. A blog idea will help regular content updates which will help increase the crawling frequency of your website. A blog will also help to attract more traffic by high quality articles.

 

[Jerlene]

A subdomain is much better. I always go to blogs looking for their forum, never a forum looking for their blog though.

 

[Thomasss]

A subdomain would be your best bet. It would keep the entities on the same domain which would make it more "official" and "professional" looking.