WordPress blog config at "mydomain.com/blog"

  • cdolan92

    (@cdolan92)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    WordPress community,

    I’m decently new to WordPress, and wanted to run a question by the community before I invested too many hours for an impossible solution.

    I currently host my small business’s website with WPEngine, for a variety of reasons. To get a subdomain/multisite enabled, I would have to literally triple my monthly bill, and not only do I not need most of the features included in that price, I simply cannot afford that for now.

    I need to start a blog for my company, and for SEO reasons (as I understand it), it is much more beneficial to have my blog at “www.mydomain.com/blog”, rather than a subdomain of “blog.mydomain.com”.

    To avoid the WPEngine restrictions, I want to host my blog on my own server, and simply point “mydomain.com/blog” to this separate instance of WordPress. Is it possible to do this, and maintain my domain name for SEO purposes? Is there a guide out there for such a task? I think I am getting confused with ‘multisite’, ‘subdomains’, and how these all play together.

    Any insight is appreciated!

    Charlie

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    11 years, 8 months ago

    for SEO reasons (as I understand it), it is much more beneficial to have my blog at “www.mydomain.com/blog”, rather than a subdomain of “blog.mydomain.com”.

    Not really. They’re weighed the same in SEO unless you’re a big site like tumblr.

    You can use Multisite in subfolders if you don’t want to pay for subdomains, but… Two things:

    1) blog is a protected term. That is, if you install WP in mydomain.com, then all your posts in the main site will be domain.com/blog/postname – There’s no easy/good/safe way around it at this time. You can’t make a site called ‘blog’ :/

    2) A quick look at http://support.wpengine.com/wordpress-installs/ tells me you need to ask them to turn it on 🙂 If you decide to do this, tell them you want a sub-directory install and you’re okay.

    Thread Starter cdolan92

    (@cdolan92)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Ipstenu,

    Thanks for the guidance. I’ve taken a look at their WordPress-Installs page in the past, and it seems as though they do need to turn it on with my permission, but that would bump me up to a much larger corporate license type, instead of the small business/personal one I have now.

    If subdomains are really not detrimental to my SEO, then I’m fine redirecting the CNAME to my alternative host.

    In the end, I’d have mydomain.com at WPEngine, and blog.mydomain.com at a different host for cost reasons.

    And while I cannot buy “blog.com” , I actually think I can redirect mydomain.com/blog as a 304 to blog.mydomain.com , correct?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    11 years, 8 months ago

    And while I cannot buy “blog.com” , I actually think I can redirect mydomain.com/blog as a 304 to blog.mydomain.com , correct?

    Well. Yes, but again, it doesn’t matter if you use domain.com/blog or blog.domain.com.

    So you don’t have to use subdomains, and in theory you don’t have to pay extra (corp license) for a subFOLDER instance of Multisite. Mind you, just ask them 🙂 They’ll tell you. They’re nice guys.

    First sort out IF you have to pay extra for it, then start with the shenanigans 😉

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