How do I start a blog and link it to my website
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Faevilangel
depends what cms, and your technical knowledge. There are 2 options available to you.
1) Get a hosted blog such as tumblr.com, wordpress.com or blogspot.com, takes a few minutes to set up and is simple to use.
2) Install a blog on your site as an extension e.g. blog.domain or domain.co.uk/blog/. This needs technical knowledge to install the script and then you may want to customise it to look like your site. The best blog for this is wordpress.org which is a downloadable version of what you get on wordpress.com.
1) Get a hosted blog such as tumblr.com, wordpress.com or blogspot.com, takes a few minutes to set up and is simple to use.
2) Install a blog on your site as an extension e.g. blog.domain or domain.co.uk/blog/. This needs technical knowledge to install the script and then you may want to customise it to look like your site. The best blog for this is wordpress.org which is a downloadable version of what you get on wordpress.com.
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Do you like writing? Can you put a 600 word article together that is engaging, interesting and worthy of comment? If this isn't your thing then don't bother with a blog.
In any case, who says you need a blog? I suspect it's some tinpot marketeer who read this is somewhere without understanding the implications.
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The benefits of a Blog to a Website is the stream of new content you add to it. If you're website has a lot of content being updated regularly (you mentioned you have a CMS) then there may not be a need for a blog, simply updated the content yourself.
News sections are good as well, anything which updated with new, relevant and purposeful content. Garbage content is useless. What's your website about? What's is purpose? The answers to these questions will help determine what content solution you need.
News sections are good as well, anything which updated with new, relevant and purposeful content. Garbage content is useless. What's your website about? What's is purpose? The answers to these questions will help determine what content solution you need.
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If you have cPanel hosting then this will be really easy. Use Fantastico to install Wordpress in to a new directory "Blog". Then call your current CSS file in the header section, so that the blog looks as part of the main site. Put a link on the top menu of the site. Tune the blog so that don't get a victim of spamming. Thats it you are done. Have a look on our blog to find out how I did it. My links are below. Take care.
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Complete non-sense!
The security is as secure as your server is, the load is next to nothing, and there is almost no maintenance involved at all, apart from the odd update to improve your security.
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Still stay away from wordpress hosted on your server, this is one of the most hacked webapps in the world
There are thousands hacked wordpress installations and thousands people who prefer you to have wordpress so they to be able to use your resources for their needs. If it is some commercial website - stay away from wordpress.
The people above don't really know what they are talking about.
Well, after all it's your choice, but you might search google for
my wordpress site has been hacked
you will get literally millions of results!
There are thousands hacked wordpress installations and thousands people who prefer you to have wordpress so they to be able to use your resources for their needs. If it is some commercial website - stay away from wordpress.
The people above don't really know what they are talking about.
Well, after all it's your choice, but you might search google for
my wordpress site has been hacked
you will get literally millions of results!
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Citation for that stat?
So now you are accusing people who recommend Wordpress to also do so for dubious reasons??
No of course not...
Well, as Wordpress is one of the most popular platforms on the web, it's hardly surprising. Kept up to date and cautious use of plugins , there is no problem. Server security is also a major factor sites getting hacked - especially on shared hosting.
If fact i'd be willing to wager that Wordpress is probably more secure that a bespoke PHP platform. There are many more people working on it and finding security holes which get fixed..
Google "my anything has been hacked" and you will get plenty of results...
BTW, why have you omitted putting your proper contact information on the registration of your domain name? And for a "professional" web designer to have a website that's "under construction"?
Steve
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geester
Use wp it IS safe providing all plugins and platform is up to date. Put the blog at www. yourdomain dot whatever /news or blog then just post an article around 350 words use a plug in called All in One SEO it will help rank in the search engines. Also add an xml sitemap plugin then activate it and every time you make a post on your blog it will ping google of the update - quickest way to get your post indexed
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Geoff-Fourtothe4
So yes, as others have said: ignore KMKPro as that's nonsense. What is dangerous is un-patched software. If your WordPress is not updated then yes, it becomes vulnerable. The good thing about WordPress though is that it has built-in effectively 'one click' updates, so as long as you're doing that fairly regularly (and maybe use CloudFlare as a security shield) you ought be fine.
..oh regarding 'one-click' though, personally I don't use Fantastico or the others as they wont properly track your internal WordPress upgrades. They'll later tell you, and your host, that you have an old version on when you don't. A few years back GoDaddy caused a mess by failing to help clients who were hacked through a rare exploit. It blamed the clients for not updating, but they were using the Fantastico details which were wrong.
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Content is good for the sake of it, but good and regular is better. I'd rank them - Content, Good Content, Regular Good Content. Google likes it if people like it, if it's engaging (so people would like it). Regular news tid-bits would be enough to be valuable to an extent, but ideally you want things that other people would like to link to.
Finally, I would host it on your site. It hosted externally it has a limited value because beyond a point Google doesn't care about links from one domain to your site, especially if it establishes it's something you're operating (and it probably will. Google, unsurprisingly, are not daft).
..and if you do DON'T put it in a subdomain like blog.yoursite.com, put it in a subfolder like yoursite.com/blog/. The former is treated as a completely distinct domain by Google so you'll get zero SEO benefit from it.
..oh regarding 'one-click' though, personally I don't use Fantastico or the others as they wont properly track your internal WordPress upgrades. They'll later tell you, and your host, that you have an old version on when you don't. A few years back GoDaddy caused a mess by failing to help clients who were hacked through a rare exploit. It blamed the clients for not updating, but they were using the Fantastico details which were wrong.
Other tips:
Content is good for the sake of it, but good and regular is better. I'd rank them - Content, Good Content, Regular Good Content. Google likes it if people like it, if it's engaging (so people would like it). Regular news tid-bits would be enough to be valuable to an extent, but ideally you want things that other people would like to link to.
Finally, I would host it on your site. It hosted externally it has a limited value because beyond a point Google doesn't care about links from one domain to your site, especially if it establishes it's something you're operating (and it probably will. Google, unsurprisingly, are not daft).
..and if you do DON'T put it in a subdomain like blog.yoursite.com, put it in a subfolder like yoursite.com/blog/. The former is treated as a completely distinct domain by Google so you'll get zero SEO benefit from it.
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I am happy to recommend Wordpress but as others say you need to monitor it for updates. And read what the update is for before applying it as it may stop some of your plugins working.
Security is a bit over played at times, what's vulnerable about wordpress ? and why should we be concerned ? Security can't really be understood without knowing the type of hosting involved. Certainly on a well run dedicated server it's safe as any other application.
Sure if they try hard enough they can hack into your site and spoil a few pages. The are steps you can take to warn you of such things and a good backup policy is a must with every site regardless of WP or not.
Even if you are using WP commerce the is no need to panic as you'll be using a 3rd party transaction page like paypal maybe. So all people can steal customer names and addresses, they can get those off the net anyway so why bother.
Security is a bit over played at times, what's vulnerable about wordpress ? and why should we be concerned ? Security can't really be understood without knowing the type of hosting involved. Certainly on a well run dedicated server it's safe as any other application.
Sure if they try hard enough they can hack into your site and spoil a few pages. The are steps you can take to warn you of such things and a good backup policy is a must with every site regardless of WP or not.
Even if you are using WP commerce the is no need to panic as you'll be using a 3rd party transaction page like paypal maybe. So all people can steal customer names and addresses, they can get those off the net anyway so why bother.
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mickle_john
The better option for you you should have to contact with any programmer..
And have your own site..
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WP has the same problem as Ms, because the are so many people using it the problems are in relation to that user base. I would always recommend it to newbies.
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trafficmystic
yes total rubbish.. if you have the latest version and dont use
passwords like 'password' etc you are fine with wordpress..
been running 50+ wordpress sites for almost 4 years and never
had one of the hacked..
A lot of the hacked sites are down to poor passwords or poor
hosting solutions.. Install the auto update plugin and you can
update the wordpress version as soon as any updates are released.
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I agree, I have seen sites hacked, I've seen all sorts of sites hacked for gods sack php & javascript is not exclusive to WP.
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