What's more valuable, a Blog or a Forum, and how to integrate?

[MrSem]

We want to start a blog or forum (maybe eventually both) and are unsure what is the best way to publish it from an SEO standpoint.

If the blog is published on our domain, like domain.com/blog then that obviously helps the site but if the base site is a for-profit business wouldn't it get less credibility, eyeballs, links as opposed to if you started the blog as it's own separate community on a separate domain and then just strategically linked to the for profit site (sponsorship links)?

Essentially the question is, if I'm the Lucky Soday Company, do I start a Blog on the Lucky Soda website, or do I start a separate website to grow a soft drink enthusiast community blog / forum?

I would guess a blog has more SEO potential than a discussion forum?

[Guest]

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