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I have a website which needs improvements in its SEO. I also have a blog related to the website hosted with blogger, which has a url as a subdomain e.g.

Main Site: www.example.com

Blog: blog.example.com

I was thinking of using the RSS feed from the Blog to generate a page on the main site e.g. with the url www.example.com/blog to have relevant content on the main site to help with SEO. However, this will cause duplication of content and may actually hurt SEO.

Whats the best way of having a blog on my website? Do I need to write my own mini-blogging framework for my site or can I use an existing service to blog and use its RSS feed without hurting SEO?

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Why was this downvoted? – Danish Aug 20 '12 at 14:29

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You don't need to write your own framework. You can use any of the major blogging platforms within a website - provided the tool that your website allows you to do this - although if it's displayed within an iframe, it may not be searched (depending on the search engine). And as you say, you can also display an RSS feed on your website too - I'm not sure whether this will count as duplicate content, or if there's some sort of tagging that you can use to tell the search-engines that it's not duplicate.

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