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As you probably have noticed, the URL of this Blog is workingathomeinternet.com/WP. I have worked very hard to make this a success with readers, new and old friends alike.
Since I bought the Domain Name http://workingathomeinternet.com (view the prospective Website) I have considered transferring the Website to the index of the site. I already started moving the Website from the freespaces.com platform.
My questions to ANY SEO Expert are:
~~ How will that affect the SEO for the Blog?
~~ Do the Search Engine Crawlers just look at the Domain and not bother with individual pages?
~~ If I leave the Blog as is (a Page) will it be adversely affected?
~~ Should I make the Blog a Sub-domain?
~~ Change from /WP to /BLOG?
Any help to resolve these question would be greatly appreciated. Please either leave any thoughts in comments, or if you prefer send me an E-mail.
Thanks…
Joe
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2 Comments
Hi Joe ~ Not an SEO expert but I know SEO and blogs, but I want to ask what is your plan for the site?
As it stands, WP appears to be a subdomain not a page. You have alot here. A blog of this size is really bigger than alot of websites. Search engines care about domain names yes. Blogs though are different. Each blog post counts as a PAGE – its read that way by search engines and indexed that way. That’s why post titles and keywords play a role with traffic from search engines.
Now your “front page” the domain name as it is and the .index.html are the same thing to search engines. Are you thinking of putting this blog as your front page? Search engines are less an issue than people.
People have a hard time with domain names and subdomains, pages that are upper case and lower case or case sensitive to I always use lower case all the way through – otherwise people get error pages if they don’t use caps like you do.
Search engines hand up your site to visitors based on your titles, h1 tags and post titles. If it were me and this site was mine I would do just a couple things.
#1 decide what I wanted to be my front entrance to my site and make sure that all my pages point back to that front page.
#2 have a site map – visitors and search engines appreciate it
#3 look at your error stats to see if your visitors are hitting any pages that don’t exist the way they entered them
that will get you to #4 see if you need to set up any redirects to keep your visitors finding what they are looking for.
I am not one to say move anything because truly moving something – a blog, pages, domains etc. I’ve made that mistake and had to do tons of redirects to keep my visitors from hitting dead end pages.
Tammy
Hey Tammy,
That is the question… Do I want to change the Blog to the main (dot)com, leave it WP, change it to lower case? I have to make the decision soon, before I get too far into the SEO Void.
I am using Google Sitemaps but without a sitemap. I’m just using verification now for the crawlers to at least find the sites.
I only started the Blog on the /WP because when I first started on the domain the “Help” desk asked me for a folder and that’s the one I picked.
I think as an afterthought I should have just gone straight for the “index” for the Blog. I did try to change it before starting the Webpage, but it didn’t work out too well.
Thanks for the input,
Joe