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Company site with Joomla, blog in folder with Wordpress - Hurt/Help/Doesn't Matter?

by Umpyman
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Odd question maybe, but I'd love some SEO expert input. My company site is run using Joomla CMS for everything except the blog, which was a carryover from the old non-CMS site we had. It's installed in companysite.com/blog, so it's independent of the Joomla system. My concern design-wise is that it doesn't look like the rest of the company pages, as the Joomla template is different from the Wordpress one. I can probably tweak it to get them close, but then I thought, should we just do the blog using Joomla articles instead, and cut out a separate WP install?

Does having it either way affect SEO or linking in any positive or negative way? Would using the built in Joomla articles going forward for posts matter, or should we stick with a separate WP folder as-is?

-U
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Changing to all Joomla will not impact the SEO as long as the URL structure stays the same. Besides the URL structure, the only other problem could be if the layout changes drastically. Link location on a page effects the strength of the links. If something moves from a top page navigation to a sidebar menu, for example, that is going to weaken those links.

    Other than that, I wouldn't hesitate to make the change to get the site looking uniform.

    By the way, there's a good chance people are going to jump in this thread and say that Wordpress is some ultimate SEO solution and better than anything else for rankings. Ignore them. They are clueless.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      On the other hand Wordpress is very easy to theme. Personally I could not be bothered porting all the blog posts into Joomla. I've liked and used Joomla but the back end is just too clunky for the average blogger.

      Agree with Mike on the Wordpress for everything craze here at WF. Its pretty silly. You want a business online but you don't want to learn or use anything else but wordpress like WP is the whole online world. I'd go further and say wordpres mania holds back marketers and even has a negative SEO impact in one real way - you can always tell a marketers site by the poor content and WP combination.
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  • Profile picture of the author frenchseoteam
    Hi,

    I recently had a similar situation with Wordpress and Drupal and in the end we imported the blog into the new Drupal site. There was a Drupal module which made this incredibly easy and I just had a look and the following Wordpress module:
    J2XML Wordpress Importer - Joomla! Extensions Directory

    Might do the job for you.

    In terms of SEO, the important thing is that your blog and main content cross-link with each other, ideally not just with a single link, but by having several shared links on the blog as you have on the main site. If you configure that, then all other things being equal, it won't make much difference to SEO.
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    • Profile picture of the author Umpyman
      Originally Posted by frenchseoteam View Post

      Hi,

      I recently had a similar situation with Wordpress and Drupal and in the end we imported the blog into the new Drupal site. There was a Drupal module which made this incredibly easy and I just had a look and the following Wordpress module:
      J2XML Wordpress Importer - Joomla! Extensions Directory

      Might do the job for you.

      In terms of SEO, the important thing is that your blog and main content cross-link with each other, ideally not just with a single link, but by having several shared links on the blog as you have on the main site. If you configure that, then all other things being equal, it won't make much difference to SEO.
      ** FACEPALM ** - Forgot all about simply importing the blog using a Joomla extension. And here I was planning to manually move a hundred or so posts and images.

      Yes, I see a lot of WP fanaticism here, and you're dead-on - sometimes it's easy to pick out a business site run with WP, which is something our company wants to avoid. Stand out, don't fit in, make it look original and unique.

      I'm probably going to make the move just from an ease-of-updating and design consistency standpoint. (Yes, WP is easy to update, but we've got 150+ Joomla articles/pages we work on, so no big deal there). Thanks for the heads-ups, I'm feeling better about not losing any SEO power if we move.

      -U
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  • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
    Yeah there are numerous extensions for joomla that allow you to import your WP blog.

    However, most template creators now, at least for joomla, also have the same templates for wordpress. Usually it's not the other way around though, WP template creators usually only stick with WP.

    As for the SEO impact... it won't matter whether it's Joomla, WP, Drupal or any other platform. It could be a separate CMS from the main site and not matter.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    I see this has been resolved already. In my opinion you have the right idea. Stick with one CMS unless there's a very good reason to use another system. Having a blog isn't one of those cases. WordPress might be known for blogs but in ten years in business I've yet to see a web CMS that couldn't handle a news list/blog.

    This from a WordPress guy who hates using Joomla.

    There's some talk about WordPress themes here. They're harder to use than templates that many other systems have which is one of the reasons why you see a lot of WordPress sites that look like the themes they're using. If you know your way around themes they don't actually limit your design options.
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    Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
    Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

    What's your excuse?
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