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How good is ghost for seo vs other platforms?
Seo is a theme thing, and it barely has anything to do with the engine.
Also if there are mods available to easily add features that are missing -- maybe, eg, arbitrary HTML header elements -- then that can make the system SEO friendly.
This is perfect timing for me. I'm interested in getting serious about starting a technical blog. I've been deciding between Ghost and WordPress. Does anyone have thoughts on that comparison?
I know this isn't one of those two options, but I'd recommend a static site generator (e.g., Lektor, Hugo, Nikola, Pelican, Octopress). I find myself wasting less time twiddling and configuring them and instead focusing on writing content (in Markdown or ReStructured Text, no less). Additionally, I can then throw the content up on GitHub pages or AWS S3 and cut down on hosting costs.
This is perfect timing for me. I'm interested in getting serious about starting a technical blog. I've been deciding between Ghost and WordPress. Does anyone have thoughts on that comparison?
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Seo is a theme thing, and it barely has anything to do with the engine.
Not strictly true, Ghost has a lot of built-in features for SEO. In particular: Detailed schema.org microformats and structured data, automatic canonical tags, automated + user override-able custom meta data, automatic XML sitemaps, SEO friendly routes, RPC pings, automatic Google AMP support, and quite a few other things. We do all of these things in core, rather than leaving it up to the theme, so that everyone get…
This is perfect timing for me. I'm interested in getting serious about starting a technical blog. I've been deciding between Ghost and WordPress. Does anyone have thoughts on that comparison?
Depends on your skills and preferences. I would choose Ghost since I am a JavaScript developer and would be more comfortable with a node.js solution. I'm actually so happy I was reminded about Ghost by this post, I might try to set it up myself tonight. Lacking PHP experience, I've never felt that comfortable in WordPress, but I can't deny that It Just Works . Easy to install and there are millions of users for easy…
Any chance of a cheaper / more minimal plan for a small personal site or blog? I suppose at that point, it's better for you for us to run it on our own hosting, though...?
That is what I am moving to. I currently use their hosting but plan on moving to a DigitalOcean box soon.
The server is a 14€/month with 16G/Corei5 2,8Ghz/2To HDD/1GB bandwidth. When you take in account the 15€ annually for the domain name, it comes twice cheaper that ghost. You can also host other things on that, since Ghost takes up maybe 500M of ram.
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That is what I am moving to. I currently use their hosting but plan on moving to a DigitalOcean box soon.
I remember when they launched with a $5/month hosting plan, then when they raised it to $10. Just looked at the pricing page and the minimum is now $36/month (or $29/month billed yearly). That's some serious sticker shock. Is it that much better than say, Squarespace?
I would love to see an official static site mode for Ghost (and Wordpress). That way we can get both a nice authoring experience and the low cost/security of S3 hosting.
Would be amazing if I didn't need to know a completely separate technology and/or hack together bridges/site "staticizers" in order to have a quite basic functionality (the site be 100% static when no back-end dynamic interaction is needed).
That said, there are third party plugins for WordPress that do this. Don't know about ghost, but my hopes are for first-class support for this.
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I remember when they launched with a $5/month hosting plan, then when they raised it to $10. Just looked at the pricing page and the minimum is now $36/month (or $29/month billed yearly). That's some serious sticker shock. Is it that much better than say, Squarespace?
I am fortunate enough to be on the $10 plan, but given how little traffic my site gets cutting it in half with the smallest DO box would still be nice.
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I know this isn't one of those two options, but I'd recommend a static site generator (e.g., Lektor, Hugo, Nikola, Pelican, Octopress). I find myself wasting less time twiddling and configuring them and instead focusing on writing content (in Markdown or ReStructured Text, no less). Additionally, I can then throw the content up on GitHub pages or AWS S3 and cut down on hosting costs.
I switched to Ghost because I found I spent a lot of time twiddling with my static site generator. My Jekyll setup had a habit of breaking every few months.
Our current startup is much more dev focused (API analytics) so we went with Jekyll and absolutely love it. Just code in Markdown and your favorite editor and host on GH pages. It's free and super fast. No need to worry about theme settings everything is version controlled. These days, even if you need dynamic content like search, you can use Algolia or Lunr if the index is small.
I guess once you hit a point where you have a large team writing and scheduling content to be posted, static generators may not scale well accordingly (and Ghost will prob be one of my first picks), but we love it for smallish dev focused teams.