What is the best route SEO wise for implementing a Wordpress blog that has a domain under go daddy and hosting under a third party like Kalio Commerce?
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I am currently trying to implement a Blog on a Ecommerce site that has its domain set up under Go Daddy, but it is hosted under a platform called Kalio Commerce. I am trying to implement a Wordpress blog because I am most familiar with it and believe it offers more strength SEO wise but the Ecommmerce platform by Kalio does not offer the ability to install Wordpress or any CMS platform other than its own.
I am stuck wondering if I could find a way to either implement a blog through a sub-folder (mydomain.com/blog) while using wordpress on hosting added to the go daddy server under their domain.
If Kalio Commerce doesn't have any way of adding a blog to its own hosting is this hindering my clients ability to be fully optimized for fresh content?
Now I am not too familiar with adding sub-domains with hosting under a different platform. I am more in tune with building a wordpress ecommerce site and implementing blogs under the wordpress structure. This is a leap for me and it is getting to be a little overwhelming so if any one has prior experience with this please let me know if I can find a way through this without putting my SEO consulting at risk.
So far I have gotten to the conclusion that I can set up hosting for the companies site under Go Daddy even though they have their hosting under Kalio. If I am to set up hosting under Go Daddy would this cause the DNS routing to be compromised. If this is so must I set up hosting under a separate domain (myotherdomian.com) and have Kalio set up a Sub-Folder like so (mydomain.com/blog) and just have the DNS of the blog installed on (myotherdomain.com) point to the folder in Kalio hosting for mydomain.com?
So now that I explained my situation, what is the best route SEO wise for implementing a Wordpress blog that has a domain under go daddy and hosting under a third party like Kalio Commerce?
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Wordpress isn't very secure - even with the security plugins and such you can leverage. SEOMoz has some great content on the subject of subdomains vs sudfolders...what can impact being able to use that is if the blog is hosted on a different server than the TLD and if so, if the domain mapping can work to point the blog to the subfolder/subdomain is Google sees it as being associated. This is a challenge for some systems (including mine, even though in theory it should work). Sudfolders are the preference.
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I'd recommend doing some research to determine if the best thing to do would be to blog.myotherdomain.com vs. myotherdomain.com/blog. I've been told by a reputable source that wordpress is not a very secure platform. They recommended that we put it as a subdomain. I was disappointed to hear this because you then lose the real SEO value to the root domain. Maybe somebody smarter than me can explain this better.
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As someone going through something similar right now, I'm going to throw out there to tread lightly. I got some great advice on setting things up, but the domain mapping with Wordpress has been a nightmare. Nothing wants to point correctly, or domain map, in the way that it should in theory.
My lesson is to test everything out first, and try the mapping and pointing before doing anything else.
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