Page in html and Wp as blog
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Hello, i have a website in html5 and recently i did a new folder in my site: www.site.com/blog for example, and there i installed Wordpress.
I would like to know if that is correct, because 1 have 2 sites different and maybe i had that install WP in blog.site.com ?
Must i add www.site.com/blog in WMT?
Thanks for all.
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Sorry, Juan Carlos, I'm still not clear on the differences between the 2 sections of the sites.
You say "The blog will be to do post about anything (tech, fashion, beauty, etc..) ... but the website don't talk about that".
Then you say: "The blog is made to generate traffic from google and 1 way to get more sales in my site."
If the blog isn't specifically about the same topics and targeted at the same web visitors as the html site, then it's not going to help get more sales and should be completely separate. It sounds to me like you're doing a general blog, but hope it will generate traffic for the specific sales site. This almost never works, as having a lot of off-topic content on the blog will confuse the search engines about what the sales site is about. It will also be attracting visitors that aren't interested in your site's products, which is a waste.
My suggestion would be to have the blog completely separate, and then when you do write a post that actually is about something the html site sells, link to the page about that product.
Alternatively, (and this would be far stronger for SEO of the sales site) leave the blog where it is and limit the blog topics mostly to things that relate directly to the products you are selling.
Make sense?
Paul
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Hi Paul, the blog is in Wordpress and the general website in html 100%. The blog will be to do post about anything (tech, fashion, beauty, etc..) and to talk about tips, advices, etc.. but the website don't talk about that, the blog is a complement. The blog is made to generate traffic from google and 1 way to get more sales in my site.
Do am i in the correct way?
PD: I would like to add my blog to WMT to get more exactly estadistics from there.
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Is the blog an integral part of the html website, Juan Carlos? By that, I mean - do they serve the same audience? Does the blog support the purpose of the html site? Are they about the same topics and designed to enhance the value of each other? If so, having the blog as a subdirectory of the html site is exactly the correct approach.
If, on the other hand, you simply want to have another website (the blog) in the same hosting account as the html site, and they're about different things, then you should keep them completely separate. Best way is to set the blog up as a completely separate site on your hosting account. At the very least, setting it as a subdomain (blogname.yoursite.com) would be better, but best is still to separate them completely with a new domain name for the blog.
As far as adding site.com/blog to Webmaster Tools. that's only necessary if you wish to designate the /blog folder as targeted at a different country than the main site. (Many sites use this method to have a subsite specially targeted for a different country or language for example).
Bottom line - if the html site and blog are on the same topic and designed to help each other, your setup is correct. If the blog targets different topics and audience, you need to separate it from the other site.
Does that make sense?
Paul
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