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  • 15-05-2014 12:35pm
    #1
    Nappy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 329 ✭✭


    Hi Guys,

    We have decided to add a blog to our website to help drive traffic. I have a few questions I was hoping you might answer:

    1: Is it better to have the blog attached to my website or to have it externally driving traffic to it? For SEO purposes.

    2: Is there any good free resources you could recommend where I can learn how to set up my Wordpress blog?

    3: Shall I use the .com or .org Wordpress?

    I'm planning to get the blog up this weekend so any tips would be much appreciated.

    Thanks

    Nappy


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  • #2
    mneylon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    Use your own domain or subdomain and host it yourself

    So you could use something like blog.yourcompany.tld ... instead of yourcompany.somethingelse.tld

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  • #3
    saucyleopard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭saucyleopard


    For SEO purposes it is better to have the Blog on your site. Don't forget to optimize all of your posts. Install Yoast or all-in-one-seo as a plugin.


  • #4
    blue4ever
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭blue4ever


    Set you blog up as a link (ie 'blog') or as a subdomain www.blog.mysite.com

    WordPress is the easiest blogging resource.

    Before you start just remember:
    You have to have access to your "cpanel" to set up a database etc and its great if you have FTP access via an ftp client.

    Wordpress has a good resource on this:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

    also before hand have a look at some themes, someting you like the style of and something that will compliment your current site.

    Its fairly step by step. dont forget, if you get stuck, shoup back here and you'll most likely get a decent digout.

    C


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