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Framar

WOW Framer
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Buffalo, New York, USA/Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada
Location, location?

I have been working on the concept of a blog which will be art/frame/cat/Buffalo/Life-as-we-know-it/whimsy related. I want it to be a page on my existing website, but where to locate it?

I have investigated the blog websites (blogger, blogspot, etc) and I am really not interested in lame feedback so putting the blog onto my own website seems to make sense - I would of course have to do some work to create the eventual archive with hyperlinks, etc.

So, if you have a blog where is it? Is it on a separate site linked back to your website? Is it a part of your website?

Is it on your home page? Is it on another page?

Waaaaay back when I first set up my website (5 whole years ago!) the accepted wisdom of the day was to have the home page short and sweet - not a lot of wordiness ("Nobody reads!") just make it enticing and punchy and informative - throw in a few photos - and Voila!

So my home page is of the short and sweet variety and now it seems that people are putting blogs on their home pages and the pages go on and on and on and on........

If a blog is on a home page then one may have a better chance that someone will actually read it - does that make sense?

Which is better for SEO? (Already my website was "faulted" by that hubspot website grader for having a "post-graduate" level of language - and I'll be dipped if I dumb down anything for anyone!)

:shrug:
 
Having fresh content within your website, versus on a third party's website, is king. You could put a blog on a sub page, but maybe have a teaser on the main page that (automatically) links to the most recent blog posts.

Mike
 
I plan on getting an add-on to VB so all user can set up their blog right here. I almost got it two weeks ago. You could then link to it from your personal web page. I "believe" it's customizable with CSS like your public profile area is now.

Anyone interested?

framer
 
Bill - the Grumble has been functioning as my blog for years (let me tell you a story about what happened to me today!) but I am not at all sure I would want any of my customers/readers/fans to discover the rest of the Grumble (if y'all catch my drift...).
 
I use an outside service. You can click the link below. This brings me more hits as the service is very well optimized. Each week I get a report of all the search terms people use to find the blog. The service also has great tools. I like this service a lot more than Wordpress. I really like local biz blogs and highly recommend them.

I have a menu item on the web site that links to the blog. The blog links to the shop site. In fact, I put a link back to various pages on our site in every blog entry. SEO at work!
 
Natalya Murphy said:
Kirstie, Can you please share some more details on why LocalBizBlogs is better than WordPress?
Click to expand...

I dug out an old email response from LocalBiz Blogs to just that question. His answers include data from my blog, but you will get the idea. You can write to Mike Paunovich directly through LocalBiz blogs to ask him yourself. He will probably give you a more concise ansswer than I wil paste in below.

WordPress is a general blogging system. LocalBizBlogs is designed specifically for local businesses. We've made it easy to add coupons, events, goods & services, etc. with our embedable tools system. To do that in WordPress, you have to go through the hassle of installing individual plugins and configuring them. And we've built the page to maximize your exposure to search engines. Our Bizblog is better optimized for search engines than WordPress.

Everything from our link structure:

<http://www.localbizblogs.com/framersworkshop/2008/07/17/the-new-yamamoto-prints-are-here>http://www.localbizblogs.com/framersworkshop/2008/07/17/the-new-yamamoto-prints-are-here

(It includes the date and keyword information that helps search engines better#understand#the content of your page. WordPress often uses obscure links that end in .php)

To how we generate your meta information:
<meta name="title" content="The Framer's Workshop: Do-it-Yourself and Custom Framing - Picture Frame, Fine Art, Oakland - BERKELEY, CA 94704 - LocalBizBlogs.com" />
<meta name="description" content="The Framer's Workshop is a family run custom and do-it- yourself picture framing shop located in Berkeley, CA, serving Berkeley, Oakland, Marin and the San Francisco Bay Area since 1977. We specialize in fine custom framing, do-it yourself framing, and commercial onsite design, delivery, and installation for businesses, designers and volume residential clients.
" />
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
<meta name="keywords" content="picture frame, fine art, oakland, framing, posters, prints, photo restoration, diy, art, berkeley, albany, san francisco, marin, bay area" />
(Keywords pulled in from your page, which further#explains#the focus of your website)

There is also an advantage to being on a website that has other small businesses with high ranking pages.
 
In fact, I just re-launched my shop's website in the form of a blog, and the blog is right there on the front page. This way people who check out my site are constantly being greeted with something new and fresh. I currently only have two articles up, but I plan to put up a new article every few days. I also have pages of general information about my business: products and services, location and hours, staff, picture gallery, etc.
 
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