Adding Wordpress blog to an existing website?

What's good for search engines is to have a good blog with relevant, updated content that people actually link to. The domain name stuff is a red herring pushed by folks who can't actually create relevant, updated content so resort to gaming systems to make sure people read their irrelevant stale site Damn, that was a rant. Anyhow, if you must host at /blog, there really isn't any reason why you can't just add a new Application to your site and host the blog there.It might require a bit of config-monkeying but it will work at the end of the day.

What's good for search engines is to have a good blog with relevant, updated content that people actually link to. The domain name stuff is a red herring pushed by folks who can't actually create relevant, updated content so resort to gaming systems to make sure people read their irrelevant stale site. Damn, that was a rant.

Anyhow, if you must host at /blog, there really isn't any reason why you can't just add a new Application to your site and host the blog there. It might require a bit of config-monkeying but it will work at the end of the day.

Thanks Wyatt. Are telling me to install Wordpress on windows, am I right? – Naren Aug 19 '10 at 15:04 I think you are wrong in one sense.

According to the following site "you’d like to build the equity of one web site or entity, I suggest using a subfolder. If you’d like to build an entire new entity with its own equity, launch a subdomain. " searchenginejournal.Com/… Here in mycase I want to build just one entity so it is better to have it in a subfolder rather than subdomain.

– Naren Aug 19 '10 at 15:10 Yup, go ahead and set it up. Its really disturbingly easy these days -- beingmanan.Com/wp/2009/07/… – Wyatt Barnett Aug 19 '10 at 15:28.

For the First question: 99.9% of the time, if a subfolder will work, it's the best choice for all parties. Subfolders have all the flexibility of subdomains (the content CAN, if necessary, be hosted on a unique server or completley unique IP address through post-firewall load balancing) and none of the drawbacks. Subfolder content will contribute directly to how search engines (and users for that matter) view the domain as a whole.

The link in to subfolders are considered relevant to the domain as a whole, and while this rule applies for many subdomains, the exceptions make it worth avoiding them. For the second one: There is no elegant way to do this. So go for WordPress on same Windows Server Thanks Guys for your help.

Cheers, Naren.

Short answer: you can't. You could do some iframe trickery or some kind of rewrite scheme, but you will loose a lot of functionality and set yourself up for trouble. Sorry...

Of course you could. What technical limitations are there? PHP works fine, albeit a little slow, from IIS.

– jfar Aug 19 '10 at 16:39 Yes of course you could run it on the windows box. The question was: can the blog be hosted on the linux box while the main website be on the windows box. – David Radcliffe Aug 19 '10 at 17:04 Well I see two questions there, but anyway, why wouldn't a simple redirect suffice?

This seems entirely possible. – jfar Aug 19 '10 at 17:31 Well yes, but then your published blog url (domain.Com/blog) will not match the actual url (blog.domain. Com) and then you're pretty much back at hosting it on linux.

Search engines will show it under the subdomain anyway. – David Radcliffe Aug 19 '10 at 18:45.

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