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Can I Create a Blog Within a Blog?

by TiffanyLambert
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Let's see if my Nyquil won't be an obstacle in helping me craft my question:

I have a site - let's say blahblah.com with a normal static page on it. I have a blog located at blahblah.com/blog, right?

Now - using cpanel on hostgator, is it possible to create ANOTHER blog at blahblah.com/blog/newblog?

OR, could I create another blog at blahblah.com/newblog?

Yeah....um, any takers on answering this for me? It makes sense..in my own mind.
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  • Profile picture of the author Canada
    Yep. You just give it a different folder name to install the blog into. Only thing to watch is that you either use a separate database, or make sure you're using prefixes (so WP doesn't get confused about which blog's data is in which table.)
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    • Profile picture of the author JamesFraze
      Originally Posted by Canada View Post

      Yep. You just give it a different folder name to install the blog into. Only thing to watch is that you either use a separate database, or make sure you're using prefixes (so WP doesn't get confused about which blog's data is in which table.)
      by prefixes she means prefix_tablename

      You can set it up manually, but I have never done it within cpanel.

      any problem with doing another folder at the root level?
      blah.com/blog/
      blah.com/members-only/

      ?

      I can do the manual install if you need help.
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      • Profile picture of the author skydivedad
        Hi Tiffany
        Great question and the tips from the other comments are spot on. I'm only going to make an attempt to provide some additional information for you to take into consideration depending on what you want to accomplish. The other recommendations would have you consider using an additional subdirectory and that would work for sure but depending on how you choose to name the directories could lead a confusing URL.
        ( blahblah.com/blog/) (blahblah.com/blog2/)

        If you wanted more control you could create a subdomain for the additional blog within cPanel (blog2.blahblah.com) subdomains allow you to manage the blog2 separately, for example you could use DNS pointing to decouple the blog2 site if you decided later to migrate that content elsewhere. In my view it also has some SEO advantages.

        Google has been using "host crowding" for several years now which means they will show up to 2 results from each hostname/subdomain of a root domain. The subdomain approach would double the exposure possibilities. This approach works well to show 1-2 results from Google separately for the subdomain. It would also help ensure the newer blog isn't crowded out by the content from blog1 and any content pages in the root directory when the site is served in the SERP. Especially helpful if the content on both blogs have overlapping contextual thematics. Just some additional thoughts. Hope this helps.
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        • Profile picture of the author angela99
          OTOH, you could take the really simple route and just create a "blog" category within your blog, if that makes sense.

          For example, I used the Revolution theme on one of my WP blogs; this is a news theme, so the blog looks like a newspaper site.

          I still wanted a blog section, so just created a "blog" category.

          If you definitely want different blogs, as the OPs said, you can have as many WP blogs (or other blogging applications) as you like on one domain. Just create a new sub-folder for each blog and go wild. :-)

          Cheers

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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Wagoner
    I don't think you can go more than one folder level down with a CPanel install of WP.

    It will need to be installed manually.

    HTH,
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  • Profile picture of the author TiffanyLambert
    oops got over my head. lol

    So i CAN do blahblah.com/newblogname easily? will that confuse the gadgetry?
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  • Profile picture of the author jhongren
    Hi Tiffany, I dont think so.

    You can use Fantastico and set up a new folder
    for your blog.

    eg. tiffanydow.com/blog

    So you need to create a new folder
    called "blog"

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  • Profile picture of the author BigRedNotebook
    For what it's worth...

    I have a site hosted at GoDaddy.

    I decided to use this relatively "generic" domain name to experiment with a few different affiliate marketing strategies.

    It currently consists of an index page, several static landing pages and 5 WP blogs.

    genericdomain.com
    genericdomain.com/landingpage1, /landingpage2, landingpage3, etc.
    genericdomain.com/blog1, /blog2, /blog3, etc.

    It was easy to do with GoDaddy because they have the pushbutton WordPress installation thing happening and it's worked like a charm.

    I'm not a hostgator/cpanel expert, but I can't imagine that there isn't a way to make it work if one can do it w/ simple GoDaddy tools.
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  • Profile picture of the author Colin Evans
    Hi Tiffany,

    I tried it out...

    You can use Fantastico to create as many blogs as you want, but they can only be in folders on the domain, e.g.:

    domain.com/blog
    domain.com/blog2
    domain.com/blog3
    etc.

    If you try adding a blog to an existing folder (e.g. domain.com/blog/blog2) you get an error.

    The only drawback to using Fantastico this way is you end up with loads of databases, instead of only one which uses a prefix for the tables. Which may be a blessing in disguise - one database with all your data means you lose everything if it gets corrupted (and you haven't backed it up).
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  • Profile picture of the author TheToolWiz
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    • Profile picture of the author ahutton
      Even simpler would be to set up a subdomain on your site for the new blog. That way you can have a different subdomain for each topic.

      Subdomains are treated like main domains, so the SEO effect for a blog on a subdomain is far better than for a folder in the main site. Also, you can use your key phrase in the name of the subdomain.

      I mean, it's probably really hard to find a domain name with "Cell phone" in it that isn't two feet long. But you can have a subdomain that reads cellphone.blahblah.com . Having several subdomains with category key phrases as names gives you more oomph than simple folder, and you don't have the database problem that you do with folders. It's simple to install a blog into a subdomain using cpanel. In fact, I do it with fantastico.
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  • Profile picture of the author Debbie Songster
    I use subdomains
    set them up in cpanel and then use fantastico to install on the subdomain - works great.
    Like ahutton says you can use a more generic domain name and then use your keywords as your subdomain.
    I do this a lot
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    • Profile picture of the author Peter Burke
      Hi Tiffany

      Yes You can is the short answer.

      All the comments here are spot on.

      I would suggest though that you get in the habit of creating a subdirectory for each new blog as well as a new database. It's always good practice.

      The other reason I use subdirectories is because of what 'skydivedad' has said - You basically now have only two shots using a subdomain and then 'what else?'

      The other benefit of using a subdirectory is that if a blog doesn't work out i.e. not a good paying niche you can delete it without it affecting your other directories.

      In fact the more subdirectories that are successfully bringing in traffic the greater the value of you existing domain ...


      Regards


      Peter
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