Metrocascade blog now at blog.metrocascade.com
Posted by: metrocascade on: April 21, 2009
We moved our company blog to blog.metrocascade.com. It was actually very easy once we had a DNS CNAME set up.
All to make us move visible on the web. The next steps will be to look into SEO now that we have http://metrocascade.com on Google Analytics.
Hopefully we can collect data so we can make our site more meaningful for our users. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
Werner
4 Responses to "Metrocascade blog now at blog.metrocascade.com"
April 22, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Oops, still here, just neglecting our own blog … 
Thanks for the comment, Davin, and you’re right (re. name/ SEO), but for now we’re not going to host the MC blog on MetroCascade. It’s a lot easier/ more convenient (with so many other things to attend to right now) to keep the blog hosted through WordPress. Maybe at some later date, we’ll change that (switch from WP .com to .org and host it on MC).
There’s a backstory here (isn’t there always?), which I won’t get into, but as I said, right now it simplifies things for us if we don’t make the switch (yet).
/Yule
May 7, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Yule,
Did a quick SE search for MC cache – you might consider an xml sitemap which I don’t see yet on google. Meta tags – title and description are vital, and your page desc. tags are empty (big SEO no-no). Quick hint on title tags – google will index up to 65 characters. Try repeating your main keyword phrase twice in the title (and somewhere on the page in H1 tags)
eg. “Victoria News and Events: Metrocascade daily events and news for Victoria BC”
Cheers
Mat
April 22, 2009 at 8:29 am
The first thing SEO will tell you is that it’s not wise to separate your blog onto a different site (like blogger) or subdomain because you’re essentially diluting search results between two domains (www.metrocascade.com and blog.metrocascade.com).
http://www.metrocascade.com/blog/ would be far more beneficial for your SEO purposes.
Hope this helps!
Davin