Where to blog?
So, my landing page is built in Bootstrap 4, 100% HTML.
https://cancuntour.app
I found it to be fun and fast (and after making way too many sites in WP, I was looking for a change) and FREE in my linux hosting.
Now we have several customers, and I'd like to start a blog in order to get some organic traffic.
Which platform do you recommend? Should I re-do my site in WP? Should I use Medium? Should I add a CMS component to Bootstrap 4?
I really like having the same UX throughout the site(s) to provide a consistent customer journey... and I don't want to increase my costs using a platform that has a monthly price.
Any comments?
Thanks!
Hey, I'm building Bloggi, a really simple blogging platform. You can add your own logo, customize it, and use your own domain. Feel free to try it at http://bloggi.co and let me know if I can help you with anything :)
Saludos desde Uruguay!
Nice one! Does it have SEO tools integrated? IS formatting based in markdown? Can you embed stuff?
Thanks!
Well the blogs come with a robots.txt file and an automatically generated sitemap.xml, semantic HTML, and it allows code injection so you can add any meta tags you like. Is that what you mean?
Yes, it uses Markdown for formatting and you can embed any HTML on it :)
Very nice product and very clean. I like it very much!
Happy to hear that!
I setup this for my app last night:
https://josebrowne.com/tutorial-static-blog-using-headless-ghost-2-0-gatsby-netlify/
Took about an hour to setup but works pretty well. Huge fan of the ghost publishing platform.
Note: if you follow the guide, use ngrok instead of serveo.
I was reading that Ghost doesn't play nice in a cPanel (Linux) hosting (mine is in GoDaddy).
Maybe using netlify, and blogging at a subdomain is a workaround (blog.cancuntour.app)?
Thanks man.
Will Def check it out.
How about a static site blog? There are many good options like jekyllrb.com, gohugo.io, getzola.org, and gatsbyjs.org
You can host it the same way you host your landing page or you can use GitHub pages or netlify to host it for free.
This is great. Let me take a dive to check out those tools.
Which of these do you think is the easiest to implement and has the best UX?
I assume your blog will be pretty basic, so based on that you can choose using the following criteria.
I started trying Gatsby yesterday. It's always great to learn new stuff! Thanks for your help
CMS can get complex and you don't want anything to stop you writing :)
At https://versoly.com/ we're building a blogging CMS that is very powerful and easy to use (categories, tags, authors), it will also allow you to collect emails as well from the blog.
Would love your opinion on what you want a blog to look like.
Thanks man. I've already come across your site.
Ideally I want to blog from my own domain, and I don't want to pay 15 a month to do so...
Fair enough, what features would you need to see for it to be worth $15?
TBH, there's no way for me to pay 15 bucks a month for Versoly/Webflow/Landen when I can do it for "free" with WP/Gatsby.
Interesting, we have paying customers who think Versoly is too cheap.
Would seem some developers are not my target audience.
Also WP comes with hosting fees, plugin problems, security issues etc.
Gatsby is great, but once you have a team it can get a little difficult.
Thanks for the feedback.
Exactly, not everybody is a customer.
Clients pay me around 600 usd for a simple website.
In my case, I don't plan having a team blogging for me.
It's all about finding your niche.
Interesting, so you don't plan on hiring for https://cancuntour.app/ ever?
Hopefully yes. However, that's a long-term thing.
If I do, even though it would be a bit of a hassle, it would not be a problem to migrate the blog somewhere else.
For example, check out notario13cdmx.com Those guys have a WP site, almost static, no content, no updates, and they get 20k hits a month. Why would I use your product, or Webflow, for that customer?
For $15 we offer 5 sites. So for $3 you could have a much better looking site for the same price without the stress of WP.
On agency we charge $2 a site :)
Well that sounds much better. Do you integrate with Elliot e-commerce? I have a couple of new sites in the pipeline for a customer, and this might be the way to do them.