Blog integration on my site

amxcorey · 03-05-2008, 06:14 PM

Im trying to have a blog located directly on my site similar to that of the blog on this site. i want it right on the page. I have a custom page design and everything but all i want are the comments to be seen on the page. no personal profile stuff or anything.

Im using blogger right now and i already have it set up to direct to my server. also the page i want to use has to be in php. can someone help me get this blogger blog to be integrated into my site layout?

Also i still want it to update everytime i make a new post at blogger ....duh

All your help is welcome.

Thanks
Amxcorey

kevalin · 03-06-2008, 10:17 PM

Have you looked into making a Feedburner account, and then setting up Buzzboost, which gives you a HTML code that you can enter into any website to show the content that is being added by the blog via RSS?

I haven't tried it, but I have heard good things about it.

amxcorey · 03-07-2008, 06:21 AM

i have not tried it yet. im blogger you can edit the code also but that just may be the CSS i have to check. i mean it is easy to put the blog content on it but i want it to automatically update and i don't know what code snippet does that.

kevalin · 03-07-2008, 06:27 AM

buss boost automatically updates when a new post is added.

jeffnova · 03-11-2008, 08:03 PM

If you use an RSS feed to display the blog on your site, doesn't it prevent any search engine benefit?

kevalin · 03-11-2008, 08:05 PM

You would think so, but I have run into a few places that use RSS feeds and they have it set to create static pages with generic text on it, with a link to the article. They are usally like - Have you seen this page, wow this person wrote a great article here... Generic things like that. But yet each one creates a page that counts as content. I do not know how they do it though.....

amxcorey · 03-12-2008, 04:04 PM

interesting ill have to see how all of this works. and ill post and update.

SmallBusinessSEO · 03-22-2008, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by kevalin

You would think so, but I have run into a few places that use RSS feeds and they have it set to create static pages with generic text on it, with a link to the article. They are usally like - Have you seen this page, wow this person wrote a great article here... Generic things like that. But yet each one creates a page that counts as content. I do not know how they do it though.....

we're testing something a bit like this here that scrolls the last 10 blog posts across a static page on the site. the idea is that as the blog is new and we're trying to pump some juice into it quickly, the script autogenerates just the blog post titles as the anchor text of a link back to the post from the (higher PR) site

the script that does this is feed2html, and a nicer one still is simplepie 1.1 but we were having setup & server config (PHP version) issues with simplepie and so abandoned before getting it working, but if you get it working its looks great.

the page is only a week old so a bit early to tell if it helps with anything. however as its actually for users not engines anyway...

kevalin · 03-22-2008, 01:34 PM

Not bad.

Even though you say it's for users, it still helps with the ranking having content. If you are using Wordpress, you should look into the plugin that auto makes the meta information for you, so that the page has some form of SEO on it. Even though it auto generated it's still better than nothing.

I would recommend putting some intro text from the article on the main page if you can. Only listing the titles makes the page look empty and cramped. Just a thought though.

SmallBusinessSEO · 03-22-2008, 01:44 PM

youre right it does need filling out a bit, will get to it at some point.

and frankly with the grief have been having with various WP plugins, as we have now got it working we'll will be leaving it alone for a little while to see how things pan out

if you come up with some masterplan please report back? this is an area of interest to us too. (for users, obviously

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Bloggeries · 03-28-2008, 07:47 AM

Adding a blog to a pre existing info / commerce site is one of the best things you can do to make your site dynamic, more popular and ultimately bring in readers. Just have a pleasing personality and stay on topic

amxcorey · 03-28-2008, 09:50 AM

yea its a great thing to have but i can't get it to work. i don't really want a seperate feed or anything i want it to be integrated into my design.

i want it to place to newest post on the top of the page every time a new post is present. i don't need a blogger template or the top bar widget or anything. I need what v7n has.