How to Add a Blog to a Business Website
by obestjose
Adding
a blog to your website gives you the ability to create additional
content about your company and its products or services. This new
content increases the probability that users will find your content in
search engine results. Masked subdomains are one way of adding a blog to
your website. This approach involves creating a subdomain for your site
and linking it to your blog. Another approach is to import the blog's
exported posts into a new subfolder on your website.
Masked Subdomain
Step 1Log in to your blog's control panel and open the screen for customizing your blog theme. Write the CSS and HTML statements needed to change the theme to match the design of your business website. For example, if the banner on your website's home page shows your business logo, write an HTML tag such as the following at the top of the blog's landing page: <img src="YourLogoURL"> Read your blog's documentation for details on modifying themes.
Step 2Log
in to your domain registrar's control panel and run the commands to
create a masked subdomain, such as "blog.mysite.com". The masking
enables visitors to see your website's name in their browser address bar
instead of the blog's URL.
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Step 3Use the control panel's subdomain configuration tools to assign the new subdomain to your blog's URL.
Step 4Use
your Web page editor to add a new link to the site's navigation
controls. Type the URL of your new subdomain inside the new link's href
attribute. For example: <a href="blog.WidgetsAreUs.com">The
Widgets Are Us Blog</a>
Step 5Upload the revised pages to your Web server.
Import Blog Pages
Step 1Log in to your blog's control panel and use its export commands to download all of your blog posts.
Step 2Open
one of the downloaded posts in your Web page editor and use the
editor's tools to apply your website's theme to the post. Repeat this
step for the remaining downloaded posts.
Step 3Open
your website's control panel and run the panel's commands for creating a
new folder under your site's root directory. Name the new folder "blog"
or something similar.
Step 4Upload
the modified blog pages to the new folder you just created on your
website using your FTP utility. Download your website's pages using this
same utility and use your Web page editor to insert navigation links to
the blog's landing page. Upload the revised pages to your website.
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