Same SEO Impact for: ''blog.domaine.com/'' and ''domaine.com/blog/
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I would like to add a WordPress blog to my online store.
My shopping cart is BigCommerce.
My store URL is: http://www.furnacefilterscanada.com
I know the ''BEST'' option will be to have a blog like this: http://www.furnacefilterscanada.com/blog/
But I don't thing it is possible on BigCommerce platforme.
If I can have a blog with this sub-domaine:
http://www.blog.furnacefilterscanada.com will it be a efficient for SEO?
Thank you,
BigBlaze
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I agree with EGOL and Takeshi. If you want your blog to work and you have a content strategy in place where you will be adding a lot of useful content and you would want that content to rank by itself, I would try to put it on the domain.com/blog. Now you know that already, that's why you asked the question.
**One solution you might have is to find out if bigcommerce can do Reverse Proxy. That way a domain could be hosted at anywhere.whateverdomain.com but to the search engines and everything else it will appear as yourdomain.com/blog. **
The reason a lot of these hosted platforms do not allow wordpress is because of security issues. They then have another piece of software / files / plugins in the same environment which is sometimes a threat.
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There is another approach to this and that's to "embed" the blog within your site. I don't know Big Commerce, so I don't know how terrible it would be to do, but I did it on my PHP site and it wasn't terribly painful. I actually have two Word Press sites embedded within my overall site structure and it's all pretty seamless.
Instructions on how to build the "template" to match your site can be found here:
http://www.nubaria.com/en/blog/?p=14
(I can't remember exactly where I read my instructions but it seems pretty spot on).
My embedded blog(s) (there are 2 separate Word Press blogs) can be seen here:
www.morningsiderecovery.com/blog/
www.morningsiderecovery.com/news/
Putting Yost's SEO plug-in seemed to really get me some quick rankings, so I'd Google "best SEO Word Press" to find recommendations on what to put in your Word Press installation. I think there are about 10 plug-ins that are definite recommends.
Best of success to you.
Jim
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If I was going to put my good work into a blog, I would not have it on a subdomain.
I would dump BigCommerce.
Sorry... it is much easier to get another shopping solution than it is for me to put my great content out there and get fractional value out of it.
However, if I really liked BC I would see if somebody somewhere knew how to work around this to get my blog into the valuable folder position that it deserves through a technical trick.
There are lots of great shopping carts out there but only one blog written by me.
Tell the boss at BC that his solution is limiting.
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The only problem is that subdomains (blog.domain.com) are treated as separate sites by Google in many respects. So even if you get a lot of links to blog.domain.com, that link value may not pass on to your main domain. Including links from your subdomain to your main site can help you to get some of the link value over to your main domain.
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