Blogging platform recommendations?
Hey!
We're looking to launch a blog to accompany our product offering which will eventually sit on our website. But for the time being, we're trying to figure out the best place to start in the interim.
Medium.com was the first place that came to mind, but I hear the SEO is poor. Any recommendations?
Thanks,
Edit: I eventually decided on a substack newsletter for now.
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Have you tried Hashnode? Its very simple to use and also offers SEO out of the box.
I built https://versoly.com/ which has a blogging feature, people at https://www.producthunt.com/posts/blog-by-versoly/ loved it.
With Versoly we built in email collection and we continuously improve it when new SEO advice comes out.
Try an indiehacker fellow product: proseful
Cheers, thanks for the suggestion!
Are you an engineer? Have you considered using static blogs such as jekyll? Loving them these days
I code, but the blog will be informative but not too technical - targeted at startups and growing businesses.
I asked because you might like Jekyll then. Requires no backend an infrastructure for it to exist. Its just markdown html. But you need to have some technical understanding to work it.
Thanks for this, looks like a good shout!
My blog is hosted with Jekyll and I love it https://blog.robenkleene.com/ one nice thing is that you can get free hosting on GitHub and still use your own domain https://jekyllrb.com/docs/github-pages/
You're welcome. If you need a place to test host your static blog I built https://tiiny.host ;)
Oops didn't mean to steal your thunder! I'll also point out that GitHub pages has some limitations: It doesn't work with a lot of plugins, and adds to the technical maintenance burden if you aren't using one of their built-in themes (using a custom theme with GitHub Pages works a bit strangely).
Ha you didn't steal my thunder dw. Yep I've heard the comparison with github pages but youre correct theres a lot of limitations with that set up. Targeting a different niche.
I really enjoyed using https://blot.im for a recent project. I have used many static site generators (Jekyll, Hugo etc.) and blot has less to fiddle with which is good for people like me who get into the weeds instead of just writing posts.
I use Hugo for both my own blog (https://jake.nyc/words/) and my app's blog (https://songrender.com/blog) and I'm pretty happy with it.
https://gohugo.io/
Yes! Hugo all the way.
I use it for my blog and my landing page (in case I need to write some content :D)
I use github pages and Jekyll for my personal blog (jonathanbayless.com) and my product's blog (autodo.app/blog/) and it works great! Requires only a little bit of coding knowledge, and it's completely free!
If you're comfortable with coding, I'd recommend Statamic. It stores everything in flat files. And with v3 coming soon (you can use the beta now) you will be able to generate your pages as HTML files to deploy somewhere like Netlify. It's $199 for commercial and will be free (but limited) for personal blogs once v3 is out.
Otherwise, Ghost is a good option. You can host it one click on Digital Ocean or hack it onto Heroku to use it for free.
I've used Ghost in the past and I use Statamic for all of my sites. It all comes down to how much effort you're looking to put in and what your budget is. I'll leave that up to you 😃
Thanks Duncan! Never heard of Stamatic before, will keep them in mind! It's not too technical at all!
Medium will do little for your own site ranking.
Ghost is a great option, beautiful UI and simple to use. It’s a bit pricey at $29/mo but you can self-host on a digital ocean droplet for $5/mo and it’s one-click setup
Heard of Ghost, will check this out! Thanks!
I set this up recently. I was deterred by the $29/mo but then learned of the self hosted option. Liking it so far!
Hey Richard,
if you are still looking for a new home of your blog, please send me a direct message. I am currently creating a new blogging platform that is in alpha stage. I am looking to cooperate with people like you who are looking for a new home for their blogs.
Let me know if this is still relevant for you and I'll send you more details.
Why not you try to make your own website for blogging I think MOZ is also a very interesting place for this task you can see here the project that will help you to solve this confusion.
I just finally migrated from WordPress to Jekyll on my blog[0]. I strongly recommend going with a static site generator and to leverage super easy and free hosting with Netlify (or GitHub Pages). Jekyll has a lot of great plugins including those for SEO and the result is a fast site that requires almost no maintenance.
[0] https://nts.strzibny.name/
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