blog.aLendingHand http://blog.alendinghand.com the blog Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:21:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Why our business started to blog… http://blog.alendinghand.com/2008/12/why-our-business-started-to-blog/ http://blog.alendinghand.com/2008/12/why-our-business-started-to-blog/#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:02:05 +0000 Simon http://blog.alendinghand.com/?p=27 The idea for our blog came from the results of a Google search for alpha launch. There, I came across a rich blog post, How do we announce the alpha launch? The casual tone combined with thorough lists resonated with me. It felt like I was discovering my own notes from one of my projects (I wish saved lists like this).

While reading Onista’s blog post I began to feel that the challenges and experiences we’re encountering as we build A Lending Hand are likely shared by others on the internet. Reading Onista’s blog I felt connected to the Onista project and seeing comments on the Onista blog I felt that I was reading a valuable internet conversation.

]]> http://blog.alendinghand.com/2008/12/why-our-business-started-to-blog/feed/ 0 Where Should Our Blog Live? A Subdomain, a Hosted Solution or a Directory? http://blog.alendinghand.com/2008/12/where-should-our-blog-live-a-subdomain-a-hosted-solution-or-a-directory/ http://blog.alendinghand.com/2008/12/where-should-our-blog-live-a-subdomain-a-hosted-solution-or-a-directory/#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:58:37 +0000 Simon http://blog.alendinghand.com/?p=14 In deciding to pen the day to day tasks and challenges that we’re encountering within A Lending Hand, we had to also decide how and where we would publish our blog.

Blogging Options:

Subdomain such as blog.alendinghand.com

Subdirectory such as alendinghand.com/blog/

External Hosting such as alendinghand.wordpress.com

What are the pros and cons of using a subdomain?

PROS:

  • blog.alendinghand.com is an intuitive location for a blog about alendinghand.com.
  • software installed on our subdomain will not interfere with any software on our domain.
  • Google will count links from our subdomain to our domain as external links.
  • we keep alendinghand.com in our domain name (instead of going with an externally hosted solution like wordpress.com).

CONS:

  • Google sees the subdomain as an entirely different website.
  • links to and page rank merit accrued by blog.alendinghand.com will not directly benefit alendinghand.com.

Off the bat, I liked the idea of blog.alendinghand.com. The goals for this business blog are to post about our process and not so much about the content of A Lending Hand.  While we won’t be building link merit for alendinghand.com, we will be increasing A Lending Hand’s presence on the web and that feels in line with our goals for this blog.

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blog.aLendingHand.com is our official ‘behind the scenes’ blog.  Here you’ll be able to get the inside scoop on all that is aLendingHand.com.

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