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How would you build a blog on carrd.co?

Hi guys, I've done some research, not sure if I should use Medium or WordPress (or other ideas) for a blog for my carrd.co website Decarb. My priorities:
1 - I want to keep it simple
2 - Low maintenance cost
3 - Easy to transfer when I move to Webflow or Bubble.

I would like to maximize SEO benefits, but I understand the winner for this would be Wordpress.

Any other alternatives that I do not know about?

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    I haven't used this but I like it very much for it's simplicity.

    https://write.as/

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      Really love the simplicity, might consider it for the short run. But for this kind of solution I guess it is better to use Medium, there are more people on the platform...

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    I built https://versoly.com/ for this exact reason.

    We just launched our blogging CMS on Product Hunt https://www.producthunt.com/posts/blog-by-versoly/ and it went very well.

    Customers from WP, Webflow and Squarespace have moved over to us.

    We update the blogging CMS often so you get automatic design and SEO updates that are best for conversions.

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      Thanks! Very nice product, would consider it if starting again from scratch. Right now I just want to solve the blog issue though, not change landing/subscription...

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        Looks like you're at the point where you need to move over to a different solution.

        You want your blog on your marketing site for the added SEO, that is why companies normally blog.

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    I assume you looking for nocode solutions maybe can give https://www.landen.co a try? they got blog feature for their page builder, can totally ditch carrd from your stack

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      Thank you, I would have a look.

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    I was skeptical of Wordpress for a long time. It seemed like overkill and a beast to maintain. I used Medium, tried Ghost, rolled my own, made a Jekyll blog, and many more.

    More recently, I finally tried Wordpress and I am sold. The ecosystem is enormous and it's very easy to host either with a managed provider or yourself on something like DigitalOcean. There is a plugin for anything you can think of, especially when it comes to SEO.

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      I think that is what I am going to do.

      I still have a hosting provider, what about the custom domain? I would not be able to use it both in carrd and in Wordpress right?

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        You would need to use a subdomain most likely. Like blog.yourdomain.com.

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          Thanks!

          This is what I ended up doing. All the other alternatives ended up either not optimizing SEO, and I did not wanted to change my landing page yet.

          My domain decarb.co to CARRD (for now).
          Subdomain blog.decarb.co to my wordpress hosting.

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    Quick update, as there are still views and comments. I have ended up using Wordpress. I will eventually move from Carrd to a different platform.

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    I built https://superblog.ai for the same reason. Your blog will score 95+ in Google Lighthouse Audits and GTMetrix automatically. Core Web VItals are taken care of too.

    Think of superblog like WordPress with UI/UX of Medium.

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    After reading the post and all the comments I think Pubray (https://pubray.com) may be a solution here. It's a blogging platform that I'm a founder of and that recently got capable of embedding entire blogs, sections or single pages on any website. At the same time it also provides hosted platform solution so you get both an ability to create a simple website on custom domain and ability to put that content on any website (two options that I see getting confused with).

    It goes the extra mile for Carrd specifically with adaptive styling that makes it blend with any Carrd website's design out of the box even though they only do styling via website-specific CSS classes and with support for multiple embeds + lazy loading that allows to embed multiple sections/pages on single Carrd site and have them load for visitors only when specific sections are shown by the Carrd engine.

    Now, to address concerns brought in this thread:

    ✅ Low cost - affordable traffic based pricing starting at $4/mo
    ✅ SEO - SEO-friendly navigation within the embed
    ✅ Simplicity - editing convenience very much like Medium's
    ✅ Easy to transfer - you can move embed to any website but you also own all the original content and may have it synced to/from Markdown files on Dropbox

    Plus a whole bunch of other perks built right into the platform - mailing, RSS, paid content, PWA, push notifications...

    Here's what my website (https://cloudless.studio) translates into on Carrd: http://cloudless-studio.carrd.co. Let me know if you have any questions.

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      Hi, I followed your links and pubray seems like it would do the job perfectly. I just wondered if there's a way for people to comment on the blog posts via the carrd interface as my client needs that to be an option? I've set it up and looked at your example but I can't see quite how to do it? thanks

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    did anything ever come out of this? I am looking to put a blog on carrd as well

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    Hola Manuel, did you find the solution for having a blog in Carrd?

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      Hi! I ended up using Carrd for the main domain and used wordpress for the blog. Not sure if there are new options out there.
      Best!
      M

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    Hey Manuel.

    I recently saw https://twitter.com/Yoroomie?s=20 post that he uses Carrd for his personal website. https://www.iammikewilliams.com/#

    I think the way it's structured, is by sections.
    But you can create sections within sections which is what he's done a few times in the about section https://www.iammikewilliams.com/#about.
    (the way it's structured is the sections with sections, still just spawn off from the homepage)

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      Yes, he uses Medium for the blog!
      Thanks

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    I've been trying to figure out some type of solution to this also, but right now putting the domain on a subdomain seems to be the way to go.

    Would be really cool to be able to implement a blog onto Carrd though.. Would switch a lot of websites to Carrd if that would be the case..

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    I created this https://blogboss.co/example/ so you eventually create 1 template and each user adds his/her own info.

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      That is a really cool tool! Will consider it for future use.

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