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Wordpress - install on money site or not?

by rslaing
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I have an established normal (non blog type) website and having read various suggestions in WF, I am going to install Wordpress. I would appreciate some expert guidance on the following questions please:

Is it best to install it on my money site, or set it up on a different server?
Does having the same IP make any difference for seo etc?
If I am backlinking via other peoples blogs, article directories and Social Bookmarking sites, are there any advantages or disadvantages to pointing the backlinks to the Wordpress site (which will obviously have links to my main money site), or is it best to backlink directly to my money site?
If I install Wordpress on another domain name, is there any benefit (white hat preferably) or "technique" to get better ranking or improved SEO to my existing main money site?
What is the best way to maximize and benefit from having a blog, a normal website, my own servers and a few domains?

Thanks in advance!
#install #money #site #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author rslaing
    Before this gets lost in the bowels of WF - anyone able to help?
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    • Profile picture of the author Mercusio
      Based on my experiences:

      Is it best to install it on my money site, or set it up on a different server?

      It doesn't matter. Dedicated IPs don't really get a boost from what I can tell. I have websites that are both dedicated and shared.

      Does having the same IP make any difference for seo etc?

      Again, no it does not. Unless that IP address has been banned for being very bad. This is not common.

      If I am backlinking via other peoples blogs, article directories and Social Bookmarking sites, are there any advantages or disadvantages to pointing the backlinks to the Wordpress site (which will obviously have links to my main money site), or is it best to backlink directly to my money site?

      You'll want to link as much as you can to both websites! You do want them both to do well don't you? A link from one website to another even if they're on the same IP won't hurt. Doing it a lot will. Using different IPs on different blogs are meant to protect the identity and pattern of blog networks.

      If I install Wordpress on another domain name, is there any benefit (white hat preferably) or "technique" to get better ranking or improved SEO to my existing main money site?

      Buying a domain that already has some PR to it will help. Whether or not you use a new domain or your existing domain to host it matters little. If your money site has some PR you could give your blog a boost by having it on the front page but that's about it.

      What is the best way to maximize and benefit from having a blog, a normal website, my own servers and a few domains?

      What it seems like is that you want to capitalize off making a few webpages and linking them together. This will accomplish very little in the short term and unless you work hard to raise the PR of all those pages, you'll get very little for your effort. You have to build the PR manually and that can take a long time. In fact, for quite a while a link on your blog likely won't have much more pull than the forum signature above my post here...

      It sounds like you want to make a blog network though. That requires a little more effort than you outlined above. You'll want to protect your network with seperate IPs, domain privacy, etc. Making a fresh new blog to throw some back links to your money site is not a very good way to spend your time. You'd be better off manually link building.

      Hope I helped!
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  • Profile picture of the author arnold55
    Originally Posted by rslaing View Post

    I have an established normal (non blog type) website and having read various suggestions in WF, I am going to install Wordpress. I would appreciate some expert guidance on the following questions please:

    Is it best to install it on my money site, or set it up on a different server?
    Does having the same IP make any difference for seo etc?
    If I am backlinking via other peoples blogs, article directories and Social Bookmarking sites, are there any advantages or disadvantages to pointing the backlinks to the Wordpress site (which will obviously have links to my main money site), or is it best to backlink directly to my money site?
    If I install Wordpress on another domain name, is there any benefit (white hat preferably) or "technique" to get better ranking or improved SEO to my existing main money site?
    What is the best way to maximize and benefit from having a blog, a normal website, my own servers and a few domains?

    Thanks in advance!
    if i am understanding you correctly, you want to use both the existing html, and the wp both in the same directory...

    you can do this and i have done it but usually you would use one platform or the other to build your site.

    for example you could use the wp for your website platform and use traditional html for particular pages like squeeze and such.

    if your site is already built up with traditional html, a lot of people ad a /blog/ directory and install wp in it. this way on your traditional site you would have a link to moneysite.com/blog/...and it would open your blog....and you can go the other direction...myblog.moneysite.com either way these are just sub-directories.

    i hope this helps

    arnold55
    mike reynolds
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  • Profile picture of the author dadamson
    Is it best to install it on my money site, or set it up on a different server?

    You can install it on your money site, there is nothing wrong with that. But what is your aim? By the way you are asking you questions it almost seems as though you want to create a stand-alone blog for backlinking purposes to your actual money site, which is not a Wordpress site, correct?

    In this case for SEO purposes I would have it hosted on a different server, backlinks from websites on the same C-class IP within your hosting account don't account for much (Google knows you're backlinking to your site from your own site).

    Does having the same IP make any difference for seo etc?

    Yes, use unique IPs if you are interlinking your websites, otherwise your backlinks won't account for much.

    If I am backlinking via other peoples blogs, article directories and Social Bookmarking sites, are there any advantages or disadvantages to pointing the backlinks to the Wordpress site (which will obviously have links to my main money site), or is it best to backlink directly to my money site?

    Mix it up. Links to your blog will help your money site if your blog also links to your money site but the links would not be as potent as the links directly to your money-site. This said, it is still good to mix it up between both sites to create a natural link profile.

    I would make sure your links from your blog to your money site are set to dofollow.

    If I install Wordpress on another domain name, is there any benefit (white hat preferably) or "technique" to get better ranking or improved SEO to my existing main money site?

    Second tier backlinking, I don't know what else you want.

    Having a 'buffer' site between your links and your money site is oftena good idea if you intend to experiement with various link building methods or software tools as you are not at risk of hurting your money site. You can blast your blog and the link juice will pass through to your money site while keeping it safe.

    What is the best way to maximize and benefit from having a blog, a normal website, my own servers and a few domains?

    PRIVATE NETWORK!!!

    With unique C-class hosting you can buy aged, high PR domains and put quality content on them hosting them on a range of different IPs. Keep consistently backlinking them and building their PR and use them for SEO purposes. - Getting homepage links from content above the fold and all that good stuff

    In my opinion a private network is the single most effective SEO technique these days.

    But it either takes a lot of money or a lot of time to build up a strong network.

    Good luck with it all.

    Dave
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