Where to link Blog

[cz]

I tried to get an answer in "SEO" but have gone off the bord so to speak. I have questions for increasing my site PR.

I have blogger blog 18 mos. old, PR4 and all relevant to my e-commerce website. I have used it to write stories and direct links to my web pages in product reviews, or articles where the text matches a section or item on my e-commerece site.

The blog is hosted at blogger but the URL is the same as my e-commerce URL except for the ".blogspot". JoeAnt wouldn't list it because they called it a "sub-Domain" of the e-commerce site which is listed there.

I thought it would be better to use it "standing alone" and controlling the links w/o fear of both my e-commerce site and the blog "tanking" if the blog took a hit for some reason.

Now with people hosting/linking their blogs from their site (in my case it would be a link off the page footer or nav bar) and others hooking pre-made forums to them also. This is to satisfy GG's love of fresh content I believe?

My e-commerce site is PR4 - down from PR5 (for years) and my listings on a few terms have slipped a little.

From an SEO standpoint should I connect http://safetyenforcement.blogspot.com to the "Self Defense Products" site under my signature? Or, should I leave it out there and just continue to link to the e-commerce site which needs content/PR right now.

Sorry for the long winded post. I appreciate any recommendations. Thanks!

[TrafficProducer]

Here's a page of mine which may help you:-

Blogs. Blogging. BLOG. Vlogs. Video Blogs.. Vlogs. Video Blogs.

[BSmithTTS]

With blogger make sure your blog settings are set to ping and that "let search engines find your blog" is turned on... And use pingomatic(dot)com on top of that. Also, make sure you are listed in technorati.

Personally I prefer to have my blog on my domain... and just not do anything that would harm the rest of my site (ecommerce, etc) Otherwise I feel like I'm just promoting another company's domain (no matter how much I like them)