Need some Real Insight into our SEO Issue and Content Generation
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We have our site www.practo.com
We have our blog as blog.practo.com
We plan to have our main site in a months time from now as www.ray.practo.com
The Issues - I will then need to direct all my existing traffic from www.practo.com to www.ray.practo.com
Keeping in mind SEO and also since I will be generating new content via our Wordpress instance what are the best ways to do this so that google does not have difficulty in find out content
1. Would it be good if I put the Wordpress instance as ray.practo.com/ blog(wordpress instance comes in here in the directory) / article-url
2.Would it be better with www.practo.com / ray / blog/article-url
I am using wordpress to roll out all our new SEO based content on various keywords and topics for which we want traffice - primary reasons are since we needed a content generation cms platform so that we dont have to deal with html pages and every time publish those content pages via a developer.
Is the above - what soever I am planning to do in the correct manner keeping SEO in mind.
Any suggestions are welcome. I seriously need to know writing seo based content on wordpress instance and have them in the urls is that a good idea? Or is only html a good idea. But we need some cms to be there so that content writers can write content independently.
Please guide accordingly.
Thanks
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Great - in our case we need open page content generation and cannot put wordpress in the root folder and start out of it. So I need to put it in the sub directory and then begin writing content.
I could of course change the name of that directory from blog to something else.
That reminds me have you also optimized the site above for some keywords in google? If I would want to check how these sites are ranking etc?
Would help me in the forthcoming wordpress site too.
Thanks
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I built this site using wordpress. Notice there is no blog? http://www.aa-auto.com/
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I'll do that right away.
Do you think that using wordpress primarily for content generation is the best idea out there dor SEO purposes.?
But someone who wants to generate open page content will have to use something or the other for that - any suggestions?
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There are many articles in SEOmoz on this. You can find your answer there.
Using a subdomain is like using a COMPLETELY different site.
Since www.practo.com and practo.com/ray would be totally different product websites catering to our customers and we would want the SEO to not get hampered under any costs.
Print this and go to a coffee shop: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdomains-vs-subfolders-microsites. This might help.
You may also want to read this, especially the link part: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
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Actually we are building a new site and wanted to have it as:
www.ray.practo.com but then we also wish to push content on it so I planned to go ahead with a wordpress instance as
www.ray.practo.com/blog/article-url - this doesnt seem good does it ?
Instead www.practo.com/ray could be it but then the new site will not get its share on the SEO.
Since www.practo.com and practo.com/ray would be totally different product websites catering to our customers and we would want the SEO to not get hampered under any costs.
I am really confused here !
Also will wordpress be the best content building cms out there to push open page content around?
Thanks
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I would use** www.example.com/ray**. You can pass link juice from / to /ray.
But then my open page contents will come as www.example.com/ray/blog/article-urls - wont this hurt the SEO url's?
No. Don't worry about that. Seriously. Also, try not to keyword stuff in the URL.
This example.com/blog/article seems better. I probably wouldn't put /ray in there at all; unless it has a real purpose.
You can build EVERYTHING in /test and then move the entire site to / via a WP plugin. Search for a widget "move site" or something like that.
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Ah. But actually we need to migrate to a new sub site so we are doing it via ray.example.com as of now. Should we consider www.example.com/ray for SEO benefits?
But then my open page contents will come as www.example.com/ray/blog/article-urls - wont this hurt the SEO url's?
The wordpress instance is primarily going to be there for writing content so it becomes our open content pages on our site we will have urls as example.com/blog/article - urls - does this seem good for SEO content?
My blog as of now is designed same as my site. Already designed that well.
Thanks
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Keeping in mind SEO and also since I will be generating new content via our Wordpress instance what are the best ways to do this so that google does not have difficulty in find out content
Submit a sitemap.
Here's what I would do:
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example.com/ (HTML)
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example.com/blog (WordPress)
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Hire a designer so the design on /blog is the same as /.
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forget about subdomains. This is going to be like starting a new website.
OR
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example.com/ (WordPress)
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example.com/blog (Of course WordPress). Just don't make the homepage the blog.
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no subdomains
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