Comments on: Putting Some Fizz Into Bubble Brothers – Beware Of Corporate Blogspot Blogs

By: webmaster

webmaster — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:10:15 +0000

Hi Dave

Subdirs Vs subdoms is quite a technical thing – in general Google will tell you that they treat them almost identically, but the devil is generally in the detail. It really boils down to what you want to do – if your site doesn’t have good authority I’d say go with sub-dirs.

If the blog is just published within Joomla on your own site then you dont have an issue – they both appear on your own domain. Hope that makes sense? If your blog is highly related to your website then I’d always publish under the same domain where possible.

Thanks for dropping by
Richard

By: Dave Spathaky

Dave Spathaky — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:51:01 +0000

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It appears that you cannot redirect to sub-directories. I’m not sure why, but this is a big problem if you host a main site and wish to create a bolt-on blog. Publishing to a sub-domain is an option, but this isn’t always optimal.
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I’m interested in this question. What are the SEO implications of subdirectories and/or sub domains? …and what about a blog that is embedded within a cms like Joomla? Is it better to be stand alone?

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By: Julian

Julian — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:32:26 +0000

Hello Richard, commenters,

As you’ll see, we took the plunge. There’s still work to do, like setting up a redirect from the Blogspot blog, and writing to people asking them to update links, and more, but the actual transfer from Blogger to our own-hosted WordPress.org wasn’t too painful according to the man at this end who made it happen. All suggestions welcome still, of course.

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By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:06:59 +0000

All this will take me a while to digest, but I get the general feeling that all’s not lost. Thank you all – Richard especially. I’d quite like to get the Bubble Brothers main site hugely improved too, and will probably post a request about this in the next few weeks. If anyone wants to swap expertise for wine, you heard it here first.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:23:43 +0000

I don’t look on it as a mistake any more, I look on it as a deliberate strategy. I still need to create a few blogspot redirects for existing WordPress blogs

By: Thomas Holmes

Thomas Holmes — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:14:02 +0000

This is great research Richard and Andy! Funny was just talking to someone that had made the mistake of a blogspot blog the other day – this will come in very handy!

Thanks!

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:23:55 +0000

I do agree, and I would have expected a few more people to maybe have noted how significant a discovery it was.

Overnight I saw andybeard.eu replace my blogspot blog for key search terms – actually replace

Sometimes it is currently quite worrying, because I actually get listings for certain terms from both the blogspot listing and andybeard.eu

For what it is worth, Google also don’t know I am running A WordPress blog, it is a redirected blogspot, so if any bonus does still occur, it is worthwhile.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:00:32 +0000

Hi Andy

It’s really quite odd about the META redirect. All established wisdom is that Google wont use a META refresh as a conduit for link love.

It’s certainly worth testing though.

Best rgds
Richard

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:52:08 +0000

I am waiting for WordPress 2.2 to appear because then hopefully there will be a new blogspot importer. I don’t think the current one is new blogger compatible.

They don’t have to move off blogger immediately though – it has always been possible to host Blogger blogs on your own domain.
Then all they would have to do is use the new 301 redirect. I have no idea why that is buggy.
I have left the meta redirects in place, those actually transferred link equity before the 301 was possible.