blog domain and SEO

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  crash41 · Member · Dec 16, 2009 at 1:12 am

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  I work for a clothing company and we want to start a blog. I noticed many companies using wordpress and it seems like it would work for us.

  Our concern is this. We would have to get a separate server to host the blog needing two domains.

  So our main company website is: http://www.company.com

  our blog would be something like. http://www.blog.company.com – but live in a frame on the http://www.company.com site

  What impact would that have on organic search for the main site? is there a way to integrate the two?

  I’m new at the whole organic search/SEO thing. thanks!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 16, 2009 at 1:36 am

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  I would never use an include or a frame. They are nothing but problems really. WordPress is quite easy to integrate into existing websites and in general all it takes is a little searching and some work with CSS to integrate the look of the existing website into the blog.

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 16, 2009 at 1:39 am

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  iFrames are appalling for SEO. Don’t use them. Don’t even think of using them.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 16, 2009 at 1:48 am

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  And why would you have to get separate hosting for the blog? I do integrated websites all the time and simply integrate wordpress into the main website – all of it uploaded to the same host.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 16, 2009 at 5:55 am

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  @ckfeng, don’t spam the forums. I’ve reported you to staff.

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  crash41 · Member · Dec 18, 2009 at 12:25 am

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  Sorry – i should have been more clear. Our current site is on a enterprise level ecommerce platform. So i don’t have access to simply add a folder to the server. I’m wondering how having the two sites on two domains would affect SEO and if there is a way to somehow integrate them via code, or somethign