Can I add a blog to different pages of my site?
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I would like to ad a blog to a few different pages of my site, is this possible? I would prefer it to not be a stand alone blog, because I am pretty sure it would begin to outrank my landing pages in search results.
I built my site using dreamweaver, but I have seen a reference somewhere to a utility for adding a word press blog to an existing site?
This site seems to be doing what I had in mind?
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Well, looking at your site, I'd say that you have a decent amount of content. But it's lacking a good foundation.
Will going to WordPress improve what your site... Well, it depends on how you create the pages, plus you'll have to make sure that all the urls are matching your old ones, and a whole slew of considerations you'd be faced with when migrating.
Based on where you're at, there is quite a bit of work either way you look at it. If you look at the SEO Pyramid http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-the-seo-fundamentals-pyramid You'll see that there are certain things you're missing from that first foundation step on your site.
I would spend some time here: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo and see hat you're missing on your site.From there you can look a little more into whether you want to switch to WordPress or something else.
I do think that since you have a fair amount of content, simply dropping that into a WordPress site that you slowly build and get used to on a test site (hidden from robots) would be a big help for you to move to that. Using Dreamweaver is pretty outdated for a lot of things (I'm sure there are some advanced users still using it), but WordPress and other CMS's are so much easier to use.
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Alright, I have read up quite a bit on wordpress, and it seems like going to a dynamic php based setup like that would probably be a big change for me. What I have now seems to be working well, I am just interested in adding a bit more content to each page. Maybe I am way off base but it seems like to recreate my site in wordpress would be a pretty decent amount of work (for me being a noob and all)
I guess I just had two more questions.
Is there a substantial advantage SEO wise to using a dynamic site like wordpress?
Is there any simple way anyone can think of two beef up my content without losing what ever aesthetic appeal or end user friendliness I have created? I was kind of hoping there would be some spry utility for it, or something of that nature.
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Alright I am gonna look into switching to Wordpress, I am sure I can find lots of tutorials and info on it. No matter what I will defiantly re do anything that is an image instead of text. We love it up here, my parents actually moved up here from the San diego area. I love it down there.
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OK. Well, those landing pages can just be regular Pages in WordPress. You could have a drop down menu saying something like areas served or something.
You can even add in the images that you have already done. I'd consider getting rid of all the text as images and make that stuff actual text though. There is good content in your specials that would be good to crawl.
BTW, I love the SLO/Central Coast area. I like to drive up through there from San Diego every once in a while.
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I am currently reading up on word press, this is the current site http://winecountrycarpet.com/ If you look below the footer you will see the links to the other 3 landing pages based on geographical location.
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I'd have to see the site in question, and see what you'll be adding to the site.
You would use a "Table" for content, but you would use a DIV floated to the right to make a sidebar.
If you don't have any content on your site currently, some will help. But it sounds like you have a foundational problem with your website already. Having a well crawlable and technically sound website is the first step in putting together a good SEO campaign.
Looking at WordPress.org will give you a very small taste of what can be done with WordPress, but if you look at sites that have been built with it, it will give you a better understanding of what's capable.
At it's core, all WordPress is doing is managing the content and displaying it how you've told it to do. -
hmmm, interesting, I am looking into wordpress now.
I know it sounds lame, but could I just add a form to the side and put the content there? Seems like it would be less intrusive to the end user experience, but would still ad content to the site?
I guess my question is would a table like that index as part of the site?
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Well, there's a ton of ways you can do that.
In fact your whole site could be WordPress, and then you wouldn't have to use Dreamweaver to create and edit your site in the future. (Juts a thought).
But yes, you can have either multiple WordPress blogs, or you can have one blog, and only show certain categories for the pages you want... There are about 5 different ways to get what you would want done.
The site that you reference just looks like 1 WordPress website. So you may just need a WordPress expert to show you what WordPress does and can do for you.
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