How do you create a blog for your business?
Have you ever considered launching a blog for your site/business for content marketing/to help drive traffic? If so, what did you use - static blog generator, wordpress, custom built?
Have you ever considered launching a blog for your site/business for content marketing/to help drive traffic? If so, what did you use - static blog generator, wordpress, custom built?
I'm so glad I found your post. I woke up googling what tools are available now since I didn't want to go the WP route. I came across Jamstack Headless CMS list this morning. Plus, I was looking at Curated & Substack as options.
I'm kind of torn. I like the git-based approach - to keep a record & ownership of the SEO juice. But I'm not trying to be in VS all day, I'm trying to run a business - hopefully a profitable business one day. 😂 Since it been years I used WP, maybe these CMSs GUI have evolved and won't force me to open up my code editor all the time.
The newsletter platforms seems cool. It appears it take a lot of work off my todo list - managing subscribers, and free vs premium content. Plus, I like that w/ substack you can do audio content too!
I think the newsletters are good for managing pre-launch/premium content. While the CMSs are good for public content.
What ya'll think?
Also, what stack did you choose for your blog? Or are you still shopping around?
I'll suggest using ghost/super/or something similar that doesn't require too much effort.
WordPress required maintenance if you have a budget to hire a maintenance team then go with it.
and then cross-promoting your blog post with a canonical link on every platform like medium, dev.to, hashnode like platforms where audience is already hangout. Which is good for SEO and to get some readers.
Omkar from ☕️ indielatte
Thanks for the recos!
I use Wordpress for my company site and for blogging
I am using my own https://blogic.so This uses Notion as CMS. Still in beta.
Looks cool! Requested access :)
We are about to launch GorillaCMS, a headless implementation for WordPress managed as SaaS.
We solve the entire backend with WP and give you a documented API to integrate your own front-end or you can also opt for our finished and ready-to-use blog design with very good UX, performance and SEO practices.
Best!
Nice. Best of luck!
We're starting to build out a blog for Mylinks. The stack:
At this point we're not sure if the SEO route will generate any tangible results.
I wasn't familiar with peppertype - pretty cool.
My frontend framework is NextJS, so I used that for my blog too https://nextjs.org/
Do you have to do a code deploy for each new blog post?
It depends. If I use a headless CMS like Sanity.io, it’s totally automatic without redeploys (+ preview mode too). If I read from markdown or custom mdx files, then it’s deployed per post. Just depends on the goal.
Sanity.io looks cool... the founder in me likes the real-time production editing ability. It would be nice to not open up VS when I need to be focus on sales & marketing. BUT... the dev in me is like where are these changes logged? If your workflow is git-based, do they allow you to commit those changes to the repo?
I think the determining factors for me are whether a non-technical person will use it and how custom the content needs to be
If your true focus is git, then there are options like https://tina.io/
Yeah, you're right I got to think about them too. Even though it's just me for now - I should make it easy for other people to help me regardless. Thanks for the tip!
Because of SEO/Performance/UX reasons I would chose one of the two ways (personal opinion):
No-Code: Ghost.org
Code: Gatsbyjs.com
Dennis 👋
Thanks!
Yes! For kareeba that's a multilanguage marketplace, I post an article every week, sometimes, they are just a how-to on our blog
I used to blog with WordPress but it required many plugins so I switched to ghost and I really happy about this choice.
I've also tried static blog generators like Jekyll but It was too limited to me.
Got it. Looks great!
Upwork is great for blog content
I went with Wordpress. I have enough stuff to manage as-is, so didn't want to also deal with hosting it, and keeping on top of PHP security updates, Wordpress security updates and such. So I went with a hosted solution that uses Wordpress for authoring, but publishes static, unhackable sites – https://www.hardypress.com/
I've been a happy customer of Hardypress, and have recommended them in a couple places already.
I used a minimal template for my blog, hosted Google fonts, no analytics, so the blog loads quickly, sets 0 cookies (no cookie banner, yay!), and makes 0 requests to 3rd-party domains.
Thanks for the detailed response! Were you only looking to use wordpress or would you have used another product?
Yes, I was not married to the idea of using Wordpress. But when I looked at the options, it seemed the most pragmatic choice despite its problems.
Got it
I am thinking of setting up one. Atleast till I make blogging a habit, I was planning on using a local Wordpress install and a static site generator locally and then pushing it to Netlify.
Netlify also has a CMS front end. I have to check it out. I might use that directly if it does what I need. Setting up Wordpress locally feels tedious.
I hear you. I always want to make it a habit, then realize I don't even have a blog :)
How would you feel about a hosted solution?
Hello @kyle
Actually, I'm in the process of implementing a blog page for my website!
It's going to be Wordpress, but still got some details to work on.
If you're interested and want to see how it looks once it's launched sign up for a newsletter on https://botmenot.com/ or send a mail to support@botmenot.com
Cheers!
Is there a reason you want to go with Wordpress?
Honestly, been using it for a while, got accustomed to it, and it feels convenient.
Makes sense.
I use my own product https://versoly.com
The Bootstrap post got 1000s of views with 0 work promoting. I should invest more time into content.
Looks awesome!