adder - 8:17 am on Jul 26, 2012 (gmt 0)

@JohnRoy, ok, very interesting. Do you mean a blog sitting on the same domain as your 1,000-page money site? I used to have a similar situation: money site and a news/blog section on a subdirectory. I often linked the news articles to the main pages and although it seemed to work ok for a while, the whole story ended with me being dropped from Google News :) I genuinely thought I was adding value by contributing fresh news...

I'm not saying this couldn't work, though. If done in a very subtle way and having a goal of becoming an 'authority' (read: link bait) instead of improving rankings, this could be a winner.