Question for the Blog Gurus

[Mediaguy]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

IMHO, carolcoxblog.com would be a good idea as well. Google is funny sometimes with third level domain stuff, but done right, you could run the blog and get a second bite at the google apple.

There's plenty of sites run on blog/soft on independant URL's and they do fine... a few of them pound me on page 1 results...

I think in time I'll be wishing I'd started the blogs as the main domain, it's just a Google/Blogger thing - Google doesn't consider its blogspot domains as highly as it does someone who starts a blog on a wordpress or thumblogger indy URL, so...

Yet I don't really think the /blog blogs will suffer, just that in time whether or not a site is a blog or a hand-coded html or anything else that's readable (and blogs are amongst the most readable of all online apps-created sites) it won't matter...

[RawAlex]

yeah, I was thinking more from the standpoint of "stacking" results, where you end up only getting one page into the immediate google results for "carol cox" and then everything else is "see more from this domain". If you are using a seperate domain, there is potential that you could end up holding down multiple spots in the top 10, which would be a good way to improve the percentage of google traffic overall for a given term.

[Mediaguy]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

yeah, I was thinking more from the standpoint of "stacking" results, where you end up only getting one page into the immediate google results for "carol cox" and then everything else is "see more from this domain". If you are using a seperate domain, there is potential that you could end up holding down multiple spots in the top 10, which would be a good way to improve the percentage of google traffic overall for a given term.

On keyword searches I get multiple listings because of labels and internal search-engine report pages.

I agree with you, though - having your blog on an independant URL will have benefits, long term - I just don't see those yet in my results.

[gonzo]

Organic SE results are only part of the equation.

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Mediaguy

hand-coded html

do people still do that?

[DannyCox]

Would anyone see a problem with actually doing mirrored blogs? Like having both blog.carolcox.com and carolcoxblog.com to catch both the affiliates and the SE traffic? Or would that create problems down the road with places like Google? One can be used for affiliates to use, and the other for the surfers that walk in the front door of the site (most of Carol's traffic is still type-in/bookmark)

Jace, I'll contact you via e-mail early next week. I would like someone who knows what they're doing assist in the initial set-up as I know I will miss things. We can discuss cost then. But would you rather have the WordPress program installed with basic set-up, or do you prefer doing the install? I've learned people like to work in different ways, so before I start a thing, I like to check on how they like to work.

Thanks all

[Jace]

duplicate content, you would in the long term be fucking yourself

se's dont like multiple sites with the same content

[Jace]

Originally Posted by DannyCox

But would you rather have the WordPress program installed with basic set-up, or do you prefer doing the install? I've learned people like to work in different ways, so before I start a thing, I like to check on how they like to work.

Thanks all

sorry, missed this

it would be in your better interest to have me do it...I have a programmer that has created a much better wordpress for me. He takes the latest version of wordpress and "fixes" it for me and I use that for my clients.

[Mediaguy]

Originally Posted by DannyCox

Would anyone see a problem with actually doing mirrored blogs? Like having both blog.carolcox.com and carolcoxblog.com to catch both the affiliates and the SE traffic? Or would that create problems down the road with places like Google? One can be used for affiliates to use, and the other for the surfers that walk in the front door of the site (most of Carol's traffic is still type-in/bookmark)

If your content is similar but formatted or laid out differently it shouldn't matter.

There's a lot of sites now, like even mainstream news sites, stocks & bonds, etc., who all subscribe to the same xml feeds.

Google differentiates on presentation, linkage, lay out, etc...

You can pretty much duplicate, especially if you're running the affiliate dupe site on php for code-carrying purposes, as long as it's on a different url with a different css/html lay out.

Also you may want to tweak the dupe site with more hardcore/explicit sutff since you won't be running it or its feeds to the aggregators and such.

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Mediaguy

If your content is similar but formatted or laid out differently it shouldn't matter.

There's a lot of sites now, like even mainstream news sites, stocks & bonds, etc., who all subscribe to the same xml feeds.

Google differentiates on presentation, linkage, lay out, etc...

You can pretty much duplicate, especially if you're running the affiliate dupe site on php for code-carrying purposes, as long as it's on a different url with a different css/html lay out.

Also you may want to tweak the dupe site with more hardcore/explicit sutff since you won't be running it or its feeds to the aggregators and such.

I think he was referring to just mirroring the exact site

but yeah, if you change it up a bit and make one drastically different, there shouldn't be any issues