Thanks, could anyone provide the same info for Wordpress blogs?
Edit header.php in your /wp-content/themes/[theme_name] directory and change the that wraps your logo image.
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#12I'm not sure I agree with this. People expect to be returned to the index of that website/subdomain when clicking the site logo. If you want to give blog reader easy access to your main website, do that at the end of all posts or with some sort of accented nav item.
> People expect to be returned to the index of that website/subdomain when clicking the site logo. I'm not sure most people really understand the difference between "something.startup.com" and "startup.com", especially when the logo is the same on both. If I click the logo of the startup, I expect to be taken to the landing page for said startup.
Agreed. There should be a link back to the home page for the blog that is not the startup's logo. The logo should go to the startup's actual home page.
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#13Logo link issue aside, I'd love to host my company blog on Tumblr but have heard bad things about the SEO factor of Tumblr sites, even if you use your own blog.company.com subdomain. I have no empirical evidence of this, but anecdotally it appears to be true, so I'v been deterred.
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#14Thanks, could anyone provide the same info for Wordpress blogs?
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#15Thank you, this has driven me crazy for years.
Every blog page should have a way back to the startup's main site. This could be as simple as a bar at the top of each blog page that links "back to startup.com" appropriately if linking the logo doesn't work for some reason.
The same is true for support sites. If you use a 3rd party service for support or have a separate support subdomain, please please please give me a way back to your primary site.
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#16While this solves the problem of getting "stuck" in the blog, you can do a lot more than just a link back to your homepage
Tumblr customization isn't that difficult -- and I think people with a basic understanding of HTML/CSS should be able to figure out how to do something like this.
A large number of sites (including ours) have a top nav.
We changed the whole top nav on our tumblr blog to look just like the rest of the site. The user can also access any part of our site this way.
Take a look:
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#17Logo link issue aside, I'd love to host my company blog on Tumblr but have heard bad things about the SEO factor of Tumblr sites, even if you use your own blog.company.com subdomain. I have no empirical evidence of this, but anecdotally it appears to be true, so I'v been deterred.
What kind of bad things? I would like to know more about it.
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#18While this solves the problem of getting "stuck" in the blog, you can do a lot more than just a link back to your homepage Tumblr customization isn't that difficult -- and I think people with a basic understanding of HTML/CSS should be able to figure out how to do something like this. A large number of sites (including ours) have a top nav. We changed the whole top nav on our tumblr blog to look just like the rest of…
This is the best approach right here.
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#19Honestly, I think you're mad if you use Tumblr for your company blog. I had it for my personal site, and it was extremely unreliable. At one point I had a popular post on Hacker News that had numerous "well, it won't load" posts attached to it.
For a personal blog that's not really so bad, but for my company? No thanks.
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#20Tumblr goes down so frequently for me that I don't really understand how companies can justify using it. It'll go down when you need the page to be up the most (ex: when your one hundredth blog article finally goes viral or makes it to the HN toppage)