Launching a Wordpress blog – want to get the most SEO benefits possible

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    We are planning on launching a wordpress blog for our company. The webservers holding our site do not support PHP so we are going elsewhere to host the wordpress blog. Here is the issue. We will be updating our blog with great content on a regular basis and would like this to help our website’s SEO results…How would we do this since the Wordpress blog and our website are different sites as far as search engines are concerned? Is there a way to plave the blog “within” our website or something similar? Just a little confused with all this. Thanks for any help.
     
    jpf566, Jun 23, 2011 IP
  2. sebasago

    sebasago Peon

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    I would probably take your main website and move it to a new host as well. Then create the blog in a directory on your main site. For example http://www.yoursite.com/blog or blog.yoursite.com.

    In my opinion this is the best move.
     
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  3. jpf566

    jpf566 Member

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    Thanks.. Yeah I was hoping no one said that :) Is it my only option? I'd rather not move the entire site but I also want to do whats best for SEO. Is there a way that I can 301 Redirect www.mysite.com/blog to the blog webserver and gain the same amount of benefits? Or can I just connect www.mysite.com/blog to my blog webservr using my webservers nameservers?

    I have been doing some reading about cross domain Rel=canonical and was originally thinking that was the ticket but I'm beginning to think that's not the way Google intended rel=canonical and I could be punished if I use that method.
     
    jpf566, Jun 27, 2011 IP
  4. akasheg

    akasheg Member

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    Well redirecting would not do much. Google will still take them as two different sites as they are hosted on different domains its better if you move your blog to the main site directory www.mysite.com/blog try not to use a sub-domain because as far as I know sub-domains are also considered as a different site by Google. As far as canonical is concerned it is just a way to notify Google which page to index if more than 1 page has the same content. Read this

    http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394
     
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  5. sultanofseo

    sultanofseo Notable Member

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    it would be a great idea to add a blog to your company site and keep adding content on a regular basis. this will provide great SEO benefit. specially if you do some keyword research and write on topics that will drive additional traffic to your site.

    in terns if adding the blog to your existing site, just setup a folder naming "blog" and install wordpress on it. so your blog address will be yoursite.com/blog
     
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    You should create a folder is you site root directory called "blog" and install word press in this folder
     
    indiarajasthan, Jun 27, 2011 IP