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Good Question, I prefer to use both.

As by adding a blog to your Peronal Web site, you are creating a way to get additional traffic. You’ll get direct traffic from your posts, which get indexed by the search engines and drive traffic to your site from searches. And, you will get indirect traffic from your other site’s pages ranking well in the search engines because they have links pointing to them from your blog posts.

You will be regularly adding fresh content to your site, which search engines love, thereby creating more ways to be found in the search engines at the same time. And each post provides a new chance to create a link or two to other pages and blog posts on your site, thereby boosting ranking of those pages.
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Good Question, I prefer to use both.

As by adding a blog to your Peronal Web site, you are creating a way to get additional traffic. You’ll get direct traffic from your posts, which get indexed by the search engines and drive traffic to your site from searches. And, you will get indirect traffic from your other site’s pages ranking well in the search engines because they have links pointing to them from your blog posts.

You will be regularly adding fresh content to your
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