Looking for advice on blog implementation...
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I am getting ready to implement a blog for my company. We have our website controlled through a commercial Content Management System that has a blog feature, but it is cumbersome to use and doesn't have all the bells and whistles of a Wordpress blog for example. I know for SEO purposes that we would be better to use the CMS blog and make it a subfolder (www.mysite.com/blog) instead of using a subdomain (blog.mysite.com). However, we would like to use the hosted WordPress blog and find a way to retain the same SEO value for our www.mysite.com site that it would provide being a subfolder on the site.
Any suggestions?
Installing Word Press CMS on our current web servers is not an option. We would have to use Wordpress hosting services for the blog.
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I'm not sure. It was the first thing that popped to my mind. I'd have to spend some time googling it though as I've never actually done this.
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That depends (naturally!). What you want is for your blog and website to inherit domain authority (DA) and domain trust (DT) from each other. It is a very common practice for websites to use subdomains for blogs because they use hosted blog services to power their blogs. Google knows it a common practice. From what I've read and seen with my own experience, Google will treat your blog and website as one site (by that I mean share the DA and DT) if you: 1) have a small number of subdomains and 2) the navigation of both the website and blog are very similar. Frequently I have seen Google use the URLs from subdomains in sitelinks for the main domain, further supporting this conclusion. Some more ideas to improve the domain - sub-domain connection. You could submit a sitemap to GWT that shows the blog in the subdomain for the site. You could create a folder called mysite.com/blog that has a redirect to blog.mysite.com. (Last two ideas not validated, just ideas).
Hope that makes sense and helps.
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Joe, are you saying that I could create a directory on my main web server called www.mysite.com/blog and have that folder point to the hosted wordpress blog?
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Thanks Allan!
So if I do the setup this way with the A record for the sub-domain pointing to the hosted blog with links back and forth to my main site... will search engine crawlers consider blog content to be a part of my main site? Or will they still be treated as 2 separate sites?
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I recommend using blog.mysite.com and pointing the A record for this sub-domain to a Wordpress or Joomla blog that you host at Hostgator or similar cheap but good hosting service. Its pretty easy to setup and you have the benefit of your blog still being on your domain so you still build domain authority.
I did this for a client that has a Network Solutions store which offers a terrible blog (and SEO in general for the store, but thats a different story). Her blog is in Joomla and hosted at hostgator, check it out here: http://blog.grandexpression.com
Notice how the Home page button of the blog goes to the NS store, not the blog.
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Can't you configure your server to point to the hosted wordpress blog from inside a directory?
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