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Should i add a blog to my static site or keep it separate?

by Jakehyten
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Before I do this i am getting reading different things and want to make sure im doing something beneficial.

I have a website with a pr1 and on the second page of google for a well converting keyword.

I am going to start putting articles on the site related to the niche to generate more traffic. Should i put a blog on my site like www.abc.com/blog

or just publish the content directly on my site? Which is best for seo? Pros and cons?
#add #blog #separate #site #static
  • Profile picture of the author TimRobinson
    Yea a wordpress blog with the proper SEO plugins (All In One SEO Pack, Simple tags and Google Sitemaps being the 3 most critical) as well as having article url's as permalinks with your keyword in them will perform much better than simple static pages.

    Search Engines just love blogs

    Cheers, Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
    If you're going to be adding content quite often in the form of articles etc., then I would add a blog, just for the benefits of ease of posting, SEO and publishing RSS feeds easily.

    But it is entirely personal choice and you can still get lots of similar benefits just by regularly adding content to a static site.

    Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author Jakehyten
    lets say even with setting up my permalinks correctly.

    Wont my articles still look like this.

    www.mainsite.com/blog/article?
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      Originally Posted by Jakehyten View Post

      lets say even with setting up my permalinks correctly.

      Wont my articles still look like this.

      www.mainsite.com/blog/article?
      If you really wanted you could back up your site, install a blog with a static front page so you can have mainsite.com and someone would have to click on an actual post to get mainsite.com/postnumberone

      While I agree wp will be the easiest and quickest solution, you can also do something like Joomla which has a full cms on the backend and looks less bloggy imo. You can feature an article on the front or your current sales pitch or whatever, and recent entries will show below on the front (if you choose).
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  • Profile picture of the author MeysterR
    Yes, do it. That's what I did, and saw my entire static site indexed overnight. You don't have to go crazy with the posts, maybe once every 2-3 days or so. Schedule them out and always link to a static page in each post. Then add sidebar links to every static page, on the blog. Add that huge list of ping services to your wordpress (it's floating around out there somewhere), and you're all set. It's the pings that make a difference. The spiders will just keep coming back. So, absolutely, yes, make a domain/blog; although if you want to put lots of sites no one hosting account I might mix up the blog directory name some like "/computer-blog"

    Hope this helps,

    -Rob.
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  • Profile picture of the author Franck Silvestre
    Yes, add a bolg on your domain. And if you want, you can have a second blog (on another domain) driving traffic to your main site as well.

    I use both and it works very well.

    Franck
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    • Profile picture of the author Ldimilo
      Yes, I have to say that I am in agreement with most of the replies on this page in regards to having a static site with a blog attached.

      Basically both feed off of each other and will add more richness to the site as a whole. Plus, you can get parts of your site indexed quicker by linking to static pages on your site via blog posts.
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