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Host it with Wordpress or Typepad but do the subdomain hosting option, eg blog.example.com. This will simplify your life and also give you a place to communica

by aristus 18y ago

Host it with Wordpress or Typepad but do the subdomain hosting option, eg blog.example.com. This will simplify your life and also give you a place to communicate when (not if) your site goes down. I would also use a dedicated DNS hosting provider (we use worldwidedns.net) with a short TTL on blog.example.com in case you need to switch the IP in a hurry.

brk 18y ago
I hate to make a me too post, but... Me Too. This is by far the best advice. You get the SEO value of having the blog be on your domain instead of someone elses, and you get the resiliency value of having the blog be on someone elses server(s) instead of your own.
- swombat 18y ago
  Actually, as far as I understand it, anyway (I'm no SEO expert), putting it under a different subdomain does not get you the SEO value. Instead, what you want is to have your blog neatly slotted in as: http://mybusiness.com/blog http://mybusiness.com/blog That will give you the pagerank.
  - brk 18y ago
    That is the ideal, but you can't really do that when the blog is hosted on a different server (barring some really extreme apache rewriting-fu). The next best option is subdomain.yourdomain.com.
  - ra 18y ago
    This is absolutely correct. blog.mybusiness.com is treated as an entirely different domain to mybusiness.com The only way to get any SEO benefit is to use a subdirectory like: mybusiness.com/blog/ Wordpress is very easy to install just make sure you upgrade it once a month.
- pierrefar 18y ago
  The most SEO value comes from the blog being as a subdirectory of the main site (like example.com/blog). So when the blog gets links, the domain example.com gets the link, not a subdomain. A subdomain is treated as a different domain name. Having said all that, you can play the game of hosting teh blog on a subdomain name and thus attempt to dominate the results pages with multiple listings you control, from your main domain name and the subdomain name. It's hard, but you might just get it to work.

by aristus 18y ago

brk 18y ago

I hate to make a me too post, but... Me Too. This is by far the best advice. You get the SEO value of having the blog be on your domain instead of someone elses, and you get the resiliency value of having the blog be on someone elses server(s) instead of your own.

swombat 18y ago
Actually, as far as I understand it, anyway (I'm no SEO expert), putting it under a different subdomain does not get you the SEO value. Instead, what you want is to have your blog neatly slotted in as: http://mybusiness.com/blog http://mybusiness.com/blog That will give you the pagerank.
- brk 18y ago
  That is the ideal, but you can't really do that when the blog is hosted on a different server (barring some really extreme apache rewriting-fu). The next best option is subdomain.yourdomain.com.
- ra 18y ago
  This is absolutely correct. blog.mybusiness.com is treated as an entirely different domain to mybusiness.com The only way to get any SEO benefit is to use a subdirectory like: mybusiness.com/blog/ Wordpress is very easy to install just make sure you upgrade it once a month.
pierrefar 18y ago
The most SEO value comes from the blog being as a subdirectory of the main site (like example.com/blog). So when the blog gets links, the domain example.com gets the link, not a subdomain. A subdomain is treated as a different domain name. Having said all that, you can play the game of hosting teh blog on a subdomain name and thus attempt to dominate the results pages with multiple listings you control, from your main domain name and the subdomain name. It's hard, but you might just get it to work.