SEO Training Tips - Setting Up A Blog Properly
WordPress is one of the world's major and most widely used blogging software. When it comes to SEO it is one of the best platforms that you can use.
This is part of a series of tip articles just about using WordPress for leveraging on Search Engine Optimisation.
Tip: Make sure the blog is on YOUR site
We are often asked
If you are doing blogging for Search Engine Optimization reasons compared to gaining traffic purposes, then you can ONLY locate your blog in one place and one place only - On your site!
Do not even think about using a sub-web such as http://www.blog.myhappysite.com. Why would you use a sub web anyhow unless if you want a cool blog URL.
Sub webs are part of your website but they are confusing from an SEO position. If you want to have the blog content 100% linked up with your website then make sure it is off a sub folder and NOT a sub web for example : http://www.myhappysite.com/blog.
Sub webs will not gain you the same Search Engine Optimization ranking across all search engines because many search engines treat sub webs as a distinctly different website.
If your blog is currently on WordPress.com or Blogger.com then consider rapidly to relocate it and it's contents to your site. Moving a WordPress.com hosted site to your own WordPress site hosted by you is simple - do a database backup and then set up WordPress on your site and then restore the contents. Moving a Blogger site to a WordPress site is not as easy. If you want to learn how to do this then just Google - "moving a blogger blog to wordpress" and you will get some great tips on how to do this.
If you have some existing rankings for keywords on Google and Yahoo then you do need to be warned - adding a lot of new content may affect your ranking negatively at first.
We have experienced client ranking drop after adding a lot of new content in the form of a blog to a clients sites. Adding a blast of new content 'dilutes' your current site content if the new content is NOT SEO optimized for the keywords that you want to rank for. SEO Optimize the content before making it live to avoid this dilution process. Taking the time to do this BEFORE you add it to your site will make a big difference to your immediate ranking position.
This is part of a series of tip articles just about using WordPress for leveraging on Search Engine Optimisation.
Tip: Make sure the blog is on YOUR site
We are often asked
If you are doing blogging for Search Engine Optimization reasons compared to gaining traffic purposes, then you can ONLY locate your blog in one place and one place only - On your site!
Do not even think about using a sub-web such as http://www.blog.myhappysite.com. Why would you use a sub web anyhow unless if you want a cool blog URL.
Sub webs are part of your website but they are confusing from an SEO position. If you want to have the blog content 100% linked up with your website then make sure it is off a sub folder and NOT a sub web for example : http://www.myhappysite.com/blog.
Sub webs will not gain you the same Search Engine Optimization ranking across all search engines because many search engines treat sub webs as a distinctly different website.
If your blog is currently on WordPress.com or Blogger.com then consider rapidly to relocate it and it's contents to your site. Moving a WordPress.com hosted site to your own WordPress site hosted by you is simple - do a database backup and then set up WordPress on your site and then restore the contents. Moving a Blogger site to a WordPress site is not as easy. If you want to learn how to do this then just Google - "moving a blogger blog to wordpress" and you will get some great tips on how to do this.
If you have some existing rankings for keywords on Google and Yahoo then you do need to be warned - adding a lot of new content may affect your ranking negatively at first.
We have experienced client ranking drop after adding a lot of new content in the form of a blog to a clients sites. Adding a blast of new content 'dilutes' your current site content if the new content is NOT SEO optimized for the keywords that you want to rank for. SEO Optimize the content before making it live to avoid this dilution process. Taking the time to do this BEFORE you add it to your site will make a big difference to your immediate ranking position.
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