First the blog, and later the full site

CMS & WordPress
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This probably shouldn’t be so confusing but long story short. I’d like to set up a blog… I’ve seen most blogs set up as http://www.mydomain.com/blog.

At the moment though, I have no other content. I just want to get the blog going and add to later on. This is a self hosted WordPress blog.

For now, is it unwise to redirect people who land on www.mydoman.com automatically to the blog? This guy from Google still put something on his front page… http://www.mattcutts.com

I just want to avoid problems later when I begin fleshing out the site…

Thanks-

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I would set up the blog as my index page and then just rename the blog page as /blog

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Sure, you can redirect yoursite.com/index.php to yoursite.com/blog using .htaccess until such time as you have a public root page.

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Just install your blog at yoursite.com/blog so you can work on it. If you don’t want anyone accessing it then password protect the /blog directory until it’s ready to go live.

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Just install your blog at yoursite.com/blog so you can work on it. If you don’t want anyone accessing it then password protect the /blog directory until it’s ready to go live.

Was saying that I do want people to access the blog but there will be no other content on the site… so yoursite.com will be blank.

Guess I’m just wondering from a SEO perspective, can I set it up so that the blog is yoursite.com/blog yet when you type in yoursite.com the blog pulls up - then I can change that when I’m ready to add content to the home page and full site…

Maybe it’s not that big of a deal, dunno.

Thanks -