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Link to the blog #56

Open caseygoodhew opened 9 years ago

caseygoodhew commented 9 years ago

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It should be ourdilemmas.com/blog

LaurenDilemma commented 9 years ago

https://wordpress.com/ i think might be one of the better ones to use for the blog if it is possible from a technical point of view. They will do some SEO stuff on any articles under their blog.

clintccarter commented 9 years ago

Referring to @paulo72 email and having looked at some SEO related things, it seems like it is indeed best to user www.ourdilemmas.com/blog as opposed to blog.ourdilemmas.com

Quoting the email (just for reference): "... The main thing with on-site SEO is to Have content that is highly relevant* to the keywords for which you are trying to optimise (and is regularly updated)

Having a blog will definitely help this, and if you want the domain to rank well it would be better to have it on the same domain as opposed to a sub-domain i.e. blog.ourdilemmas.com is not as good as ourdilemmas.com/blog

That said, the app pages would not necessarily need point to the blog side of the site. The blog could be used to funnel people into the site rather than vice-versa.

The home page is already pretty keyword-rich in respect of the following: vote - 7 times advise - 5 times dilemmas - 4 times anonymity - 4 times answers - 3 times Make sure this is reflected in the way that the page is structured i.e. relevant keywords in text in page titles, descriptions headings, body text etc.

There are definitely some optimisations to be made here, good news is they probably wouldn't take long Ensure that search engines can easily spider the sites content

e.g. with an XML sitemap — this could generated by the app each day or so to reflect the current dilemmas + blog pages — don't know if this is technically difficult though?

The main thing with off-site SEO is to Have lots of quality links into the site from relevant, authoritative and high ranking websites (as opposed to link-farms and dodgy link exchanges)

... and have links in from social media (social may be as likely a source of traffic as Google)

Currently, there are no social share buttons on dilemmas, is this something that is worth considering? It may get a lot more eyes to the site (especially if the odd controversial dilemma got shared).

Also, there should be social share buttons on any blog posts. ..."

We think that having a sub site in the webpage (i.e. www.ourdilemmas.com/blog) that uses Wordpress would be easiest and best. Of course it would be good if the sub site looks like the rest of the page (in terms of branding, colours, fonts etc).

I am afraid that my technical knowledge does not stretch that far, but hopefully @paulo72 and @caseygoodhew can help here (to find it out?)

caseygoodhew commented 9 years ago

So, before I can put a link in place, I need to know where to link to. You'll need to decide on the blogging platform (Wordpress is pretty standard) and get something setup that I can point the link at.

Also, any reference information that you can provide as to why ourdilemmas.com/blog is better than blog.ourdilemmas.com would be helpful as I'm not sure exactly what to search for (i.e. I want to understand the technical implementation on my side). Can it just be a simple redirect from /blog to the blogging site?

In terms of making it look like the site - you'll need to speak to @paulo72 about this once you've decided on the blogging platform.

Tomorrow morning is my last time for release before I go on holiday (too dangerous to 'release and go'), so any decisions on this should be made today if I've any hope of getting it together in the next 3 weeks.

clintccarter commented 9 years ago

Looked at this in a bit more detail.

As far as I understand it we need to do the following: Create new sub directory, i.e. ourdilemmas.com/blog. Download WP and add all files to above directory. Install WP.

From then @paulo72 can add the looks of it.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website

paulo72 commented 9 years ago

Hi All,

I agree with Casey, Wordpress would be the way to go for setting up a blog, I have a few years Wordpress experience.

The reason for the subfolder rather than subdomain is that Google reportedly does not share seo benefits / page rank between domains and subdomains. So, page rank earned by blog.ourdilemmas.com will not be shared with ourdilemmas.com. I am not an SEO expert, but that has always been the advice I've heard. Here are a few articles that support that idea, although I'm sure some will contradict it:

- https://moz.com/blog/subdomains-vs-subfolders-rel-canonical-vs-301-how-to-structure-links-optimally-for-seo-whiteboard-friday

Once the blog is installed I can use the styles from the main site to keep it all consistent.

Cheers, Paul

Paul Davison 0777 600 3294 paul@paulo72.com

Web & UI — Design and Build www.paulo72.com

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 6:28 AM, caseygoodhew notifications@github.com wrote:

So, before I can put a link in place, I need to know where to link to. You'll need to decide on the blogging platform (Wordpress is pretty standard) and get something setup that I can point the link at.

Also, any reference information that you can provide as to why ourdilemmas.com/blog is better than blog.ourdilemmas.com would be helpful as I'm not sure exactly what to search for (i.e. I want to understand the technical implementation on my side). Can it just be a simple redirect from /blog to the blogging site?

In terms of making it look like the site - you'll need to speak to @paulo72 https://github.com/paulo72 about this once you've decided on the blogging platform.

Tomorrow morning is my last time for release before I go on holiday (too dangerous to 'release and go'), so any decisions on this should be made today if I've any hope of getting it together in the next 3 weeks.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/caseygoodhew/dilemma/issues/56#issuecomment-114731849 .

caseygoodhew commented 9 years ago

Ok, I now understand the ask, so here's the summary:

1 - ourdilemmas.com/blog

2 - blog.ourdilemmas.com

3 - Hybrid solution If you still really want to use ourdilemmas.com/blog, I could use the Wordpress API to pull blog posts into ourdilemmas.com/blog without needing to install anything Wordpress related on our servers. This would mean that you would use the actual Wordpress site to create the blog posts, but that we'd pull the content into our ourdilemmas.com (sort of like we do with WebPurify). This has similar effort to option 1, but is significantly safer from a technological risk point of view.

Summary Either way, I'm not going to be able to release changes before I'm off on holiday. Even if you go for the simplest option (option 2), I'm hesitant to release code and flee the country within 24 hours - that's pretty much a guarantee that the site will have problems (according to Murphy's Law)

clintccarter commented 9 years ago

Hi Casey,

Yes, that is how I understand it as well.

2 - blog.ourdilemmas.com Rules itself out, as the entire point of having a blog is to improve SEO.

3 - Hybrid solution Makes sense. However pulling data in, may upset Analytics to a degree? Still an option, of course, but if possible, still prefer 1)

1 - ourdilemmas.com/blog Looked around, and apparently there are quite a few websites running WP on Win. The only real issue seems to be that some WP Plugins are only designed (and work) on Linux.

Requirements should be PHP version 4.2 or greater MySQL version 3.23.23 or greater

So assuming AWS covers this, the documentation online seems to suggest that this is feasible and relatively easy. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-in-aspnet

Here a few links that I read through, but may be more useful for yourself: https://www.microsoft.com/web/wordpress http://www.wpdotnet.com/

NB: Nice holiday & safe journey @caseygoodhew