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Permalink Reply by Brian Groce on January 2, 2009 at 5:19pm

WordPress.org (self hosted) or WordPress.com (hosted by Automattic)?

There are pluses and minuses to each, but I personally opt for the self-hosted route since it offers greater flexibility (we special in WordPress development). If you keep both, I probably wouldn't duplicate content and I'd make sure to point back to your main site. And a good thing about self hosted is that you can create a theme (template) to match your main site and you can even use WordPress for your main sites' content if you choose to do so (that's what we're doing).

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Permalink Reply by Erik Deckers on January 2, 2009 at 10:13pm

Can you get WordPress on your website? If you have a Unix server and use PHP (as opposed to a Windows server and ASP), you can easily put WordPress.org on your site. Then, the two are combined, and you're getting all the Google link juice you can get.

Of course, you can also build a website with WordPress too, if that's an option. Then the blog will be a small part of the website, although the whole site is actually a blog.

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Permalink Reply by Brian Groce on January 2, 2009 at 11:17pm

WordPress actually has two types of verbiage content, posts & pages. Posts are normally used for blog posts and pages are normally used for more "static" content (the underlying database schema is the same however). While not billed as a Content Management System (CMS), that's really what it is and it is an excellent choice for smaller sites.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Anderson on January 4, 2009 at 1:33pm

It depends on the traffic you're getting on the Wordpress Blog. If you're Wordpress Blog is ranked and receives decent traffic, then slowly start pointing your traffic to your new blog domain, and then let your old Wordpress Blog fade away as you start building traffic on your domain blog. Try to link to your new site with relevant anchor text (make sure the no rel follow is off,).
If you're not getting much traffic to your Wordpress Blog, and it's not ranked for many relevant key words, than it really doesn't matter which option you choose.
Or, as a third option, keep both going. You may be able to build two assets instead of booting one of them.
Good luck,
Chris

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Permalink Reply by Stephen James on January 5, 2009 at 12:28am

If you either have the technical know-how or the money to hire the technical know-how, then move it to your site from WordPress.com.

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