How to associate a blog and mother website with different domains for SEO purposes

[niclaus78]

Hi just a quick one, I have a client which owns has its main website in one domain and its blog in a complete different domain, although there are plans of moving the blog to a sub folder /blog etc we can't do it in the immediate future due to internal complications.

What's is the best practise to do this ? Rel-publiser I think its related to google plus is this a good way to do it?

Thanks

Nico

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi Nico

As you said, ideally this would be a /blog situation, but as you can't do that right now, here is what I would do:

• Apply the rel=publisher tag

• Link to the blog from the main site

• Make sure the main site is linked to from the blog

• Preferably the company logo up top

• Keep the design and experience consistent

• Same colors / logos / company information

• Make sure you have cross domain tracking set up

• You can utilize schema on the blog with references to the main company/site

• Publisher

Right now, as far as I can tell based on your question, this is the best you can do. Hope this all helps! Good luck!

[MoosaHemani]

I think I have to agree about most of the things that Patrick discussed already but make sure that visitors are considering at one that can easily be done by having a similar design, cross promotion, easy access from blog to website and from website to blog and more.

Also, it is advisable to do a small awareness campaign that give a clear idea to user that these two different domains are owned by one.

[niclaus78]

That's awesome Patrick I'll read all your ideas.

Thanks a lot

NIco