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I'll be honest, I love wiki's. They are great ways of describing scenarios and step-by-step instructions such as guides, which I enjoy authoring. However, I also enjoy visitors on my blog, where I write articles on odd bits from time to time. I own a website for my blog but I'm highly involved in a community that has its own wiki. The community discussions are very often generating tons of guides, including my own versions. The community wiki seems like the ideal place for me to create my guides, since they have a wiki suitable for the guides I write. However, doing this means less traffic to my blog and that's an issue I haven't come to grips with how to handle. Referring to a guide I write on the community wiki means less traffic for my blog, where browsers would have a chance to discover even more content.

Any tips and suggestions about this would be great. I'm getting more and more inclined to not write guides on the wiki and instead only make them on my blog because of this which, frankly, sucks.

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I think you should just publish on both. And mention ofcourse your own website. When people like what you make and find it usefull, they will eventually end up on your site. I think it is a good idea to us the existing community, one you help the commmunity, and this will help your own website in the long run. You can easily track how much traffic the community site generates to your own.

since you like authoring and making guides, the actual location of your work should not be the issues, just the amount of people reading it. When I read an article or wiki or anything that I found interesting I will definitly check out the author.

So in short, just make sure people get to read your stuff anywhere , and it will naturally redirect to your own and might evolve over time.

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I don't think you should publish the same content on both if that is what you are implying? If the wiki is the more appropriate place for the content then perhaps publish a snippet/intro on your blog and link to the wiki. Ideally the wiki would specify you as the author, enabling you to link back to your personal blog and to benefit from the wiki-traffic. – w3d Jul 13 '12 at 16:07

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