On: Blogging for Hackers

[carlsednaoui]

Do you know of a way to have a Tumblr blog running on a rails app?

Example: I'd like to have www.mydomain.com/blog

[eykanal → carlsednaoui]

That's pretty easy, I did it with my blog. Check their help docs:

http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_domains

In brief, you would set up a custom domain name, and then if necessary set a redirect so that "blog.mydomain.com" points to "mydomain.com/blog".

[carlsednaoui → eykanal]

Thanks for the tip.

Im not sure if this would have any averse effect on the site's SEO though. How did you deal with that? Did you do a 301 redirect for everything?

Example blog.mydomain.com/article1 to www.mydomain.com/blog/article1

[eykanal → carlsednaoui]

I believe that simply redirecting the base URL obviates the need of setting up redirects for each post, but it's been a long while since I looked into that. Hopefully someone else will give you a more definitive answer.

[clyfe → eykanal]

As per bingo card guy (patio1 I belive) domain.com/blog has better SEO than blog.domain.com