Having Blog and Forum for Store is Beneficial or Not

[vinku]

Hello !

I am building a cosmetic store. I have blog.storename.com , forum.storename.com. i started both to make my store content rich.

On my blog we are personally reviewing cosmetic products. and forum user are sharing experience and problems related to beauty.....

But i was reading this post http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/uncover-competitors-using-multiple-sites-for-multiple-first-page-rankings .

it has this "

Alright, Google dislikes pages, subdomains, and domains with substantially duplicated content. Got it. "

Any way my content is not going to be dup at all. but

Product which we are reviewing on blog. ll also be on our store for sale. and might be people sharing own experiences about same product on forum.

do u think i should worry?

[SeattleOrganicSEO]

Like you said, if it's not duplicated, it should be fine.  Just build the url structure and the other on page elements of the pages that are generated via the forum and the blog to be SEO friendly.  Just make sure it's not duplicating and that it's unique.

When you think about it, you want unique content when you're searching for it online.  Just don't repeat the same information in your forum & blogs and you should be fine.

[vinku]

first of thanks journeyman.  I will make sure that we ll not have any kind of dup content anywhere on blog forum and store. all ll be run individually

[DougRoberts]

It sounds as if you're providing additional value to visitors to your site, and that can only be a good thing!

As "SeattleOrganicSEO" says, as long as you're not duplicating the content from one page to another I don't see that having reviews of a product and product descriptions in the store should be a problem. Just make sure you're not copy-and-pasting the product description into the review! Make sure the reviews are great reviews!

I take it you're linking the products mentioned in your reviews to the the same products for sale in your store?

Put your visitors/customers first and build content that's of value to them and you can't go far wrong.

[eunaneunan]

why put the blog and forum on sub domains?, have them as a sub folders on the main domain.  That way you not losing DA to the subdomain.

[vinku]

i did this and it's live from 2 months :(.  not i cant do anything.

suggest me if i can do anything? safely.