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A few quick questions about adding a blog to my static site

by Jakehyten
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This has been confusing for me but i think i finally got it set up.

I installed wordpress in a directory on my static site. www.staticsite.com/blog

I just have a few questions now.

1. I use xsitepro to build my website. I already get about 150-180 UV per day. I DO NOT want them to go onto my main site which is kinda a sales page and click off to my blog and be distracted. Do I NEED to link from my main site to my blog in the left panel for seo effect? Or can i have it be like invisible per say?

2. Do i need to install google analytics in the blog as well or will my main site where i have GA installed report the traffic?

3. I have noticed my permalinks looking like this. www.mainsite.com/blog/dognuances/peeing (that is not my niche just an example) I will be writing pages and posts so the nuances is the category and the peeing is the post. Now my question is wont the /blog/ part of the URL be a problem and affect seo? Or is that ok?

4. I will mainly be using this site to write many many articles and attract natural organic traffic. I will have a advertisement on the sidebar for my MAIN site which will be doing the selling. I am assuming this is ok?

Thanks for the help
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  • Profile picture of the author kettlewell
    Jake,

    Here's my take:

    1) If you don't want your main site visitors to see your blog, then why blog on this site? create a wordpress.com site instead. For SEO, you can get the pages to your blog to rank high by promoting them and creating backlinks to them, but if your site and blog are separate for your visitors, then one won't benefit the other.

    2)Google analytics code will need to be placed into the footer.php file (or a Google analytics plugin) of your blog. It is the same code that you have for your static site.

    3) /blog is a common blog convention, and it is taken into account as well. I normally keep my blog as my main site, but for the rare times that I do use it in a directory, I create something like /niche-blog/ so /dognuances-blog/ might work. Once it's set, you can't change it, so think for a while on what you want to do here, before you set up the blog. /blog/ though should be fine in most markets.

    4) Not sure I understand the question, but you can have ads in your blog that advertise your main site - in this sense you'd be gaining the benefit of PR and backlinks for SEO that I dismissed in item #1 above

    What you're doing is not too untypical, except that I personally favor a separate place to blog that points(advertises) people to my main site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jakehyten
      Originally Posted by kettlewell View Post

      Jake,

      Here's my take:

      1) If you don't want your main site visitors to see your blog, then why blog on this site? create a wordpress.com site instead. For SEO, you can get the pages to your blog to rank high by promoting them and creating backlinks to them, but if your site and blog are separate for your visitors, then one won't benefit the other.

      4) Not sure I understand the question, but you can have ads in your blog that advertise your main site - in this sense you'd be gaining the benefit of PR and backlinks for SEO that I dismissed in item #1 above

      What you're doing is not too untypical, except that I personally favor a separate place to blog that points(advertises) people to my main site.
      Thank you.

      1. I want my main site to benefit from the blog seo. I want it to rank higher in the serps. I am on page 2 of google for a VERY good keyword but just cant get to page 1. I am rank 12-14 and cant push above. So everyone says if you add a blog to your static site it will help.

      4. I will be having a link from my blog TO > my main site. In the form of a picture and keyword in the sidebar. So i will be linking FROM my blog TO my main site but not vice versa. I dont want to distract visitors from my main site but I DO want them to go from the blog to the main site.

      So in those instances am i ok?
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  • Profile picture of the author kettlewell
    Yeah,

    After I re-read your question, I understood better.

    the PR will flow from blog to static on same domain - as long as the theme is consistent, should do OK -

    BUT - your WordPress pages *Could* (likely will) outrank your static pages. This means that your static page still won't be on page one, but your blog pages will...

    I notice that you don't have a link in your sig here on the forums - might be worth an extra back link to your static page
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