Help From Fellow Webmasters
The primary focus of this domain is my blog, the one that you’re reading at the moment, discussing Computer Science and the like. While I do have quite a few domain names under my belt, I have been trying to maintain this particular one as a means to write about the things that I have learned and the things that I have created.
One of my creations, the World of Warcraft Information Database, linked at the top of every page, is completely unrelated to this site in terms of the content that the Google spiders will crawl. What I’d like to know is whether or not this will hurt my ranking according to Google.
Imagine a website with the main topic being “mathematics” having a folder containing a lot of content regarding something completely unrelated; like “bees”. That is sort of the situation that I am in. The root directory of this site is the blog that you’re reading, but there is a sub-directory (the World of Warcraft Information Database) which contains completely irrelevant information, which I store on this domain because I do consider it to be part of my portfolio.
Does this hurt my Google ranking at all, the fact that I have a website with two unrelated topics? I sure hope not. If anyone has some insight on this baffling situation I would really appreciate some feedback, so please do comment.
My interpretation is that Google will not compare this blog to the aforementioned database nor will it penalize me in any way. Rather, Google will view this blog as it’s own entity, as it will the World of Warcraft Information Database. If some overlap occurs in terms of keywords and content, I would only assume that they will cumulatively affect my keywords. In fact, they will without-a-doubt impact my keywords. The fact that the blog and the database have nothing in common causes Google to add keywords to my site with very low relevancy, and that is why a website such as Wikipedia, which houses keywords on just about every particular word or phrase imaginable can attain such success.
Had I placed the World of Warcraft Information Database on a separate domain name altogether I do not think that anything would change in terms of keyword relevancy.
So that’s my two cents; I would highly appreciate any insight from any webmaster or Google “expert”, so please comment below! Thanks very much, friends!
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