Moving Blog Question
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Site A is my primary site. I created a blog on site B and wrote good content and gave links back to site A. I think this is causing a penalty to occur. I no longer want to update site B and want to move the entire blog and it's content to sitea.com/blog.
Is this a good idea or should I just start a fresh/new sitea/blog and just remove the links from site B to site A?
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Just be sure to put in 301 redirects from site B to site A, so that Google doesn't think the blog content is duplicate content, and you should be fine.
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You are correct. But, my question is. Am I okay with moving the blog and all it's content over to sitea/blog?
I don't want to get penalized by Google.
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I think it's a good practice in general to have the blog hosted on your main site in a subdirectory like you mentioned (sitea/blog). Having a separate blog site means more work you have to do in terms of link building and promotion in order for links from that site to have any value. Having the blog on your main site takes less work, and your site will benefit more directly from links coming to the content.
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