How to Add a Blog to Your Website

There are many ways to add a blog to your website, but by far one of the easiest and fastest ways to add a blog to your website is via blogstatic.

The go to approach to adding a blog to your website

blogstatic is a blogging platform that makes it easy to set up a blog on the /subfolder of your domain and its pricing starts at $49 per year (not month).

In other words, you can have an existing website (example: domain.com) and via blogstatic have your blog run on any /subfolder of your root domain (example: domain.com/blog) — without having to install anything or needing any hosting.

On top of it all, blogstatic has everything you need to run an SEO ready blog. And the importance of running your blog on the /subfolder of your website is paramount, compared to running it on the subdomain of your blog (example: blog.domain.com) which Google sees as a separate domain to your root domain.

Also, your blogstatic blog can be fully customized to match your existing website's colors, styles, and fonts via its proprietary DesignStudio.

What other ways you can add a blog to your website?

There are definitely other ways you can add a blog to your website.

These approaches' complexity level varies depending on your time availability and how fast you want to get your new blog up and running.

Code your own blog from scratch

Coding your own blog from scratch and adding it to your website gives you the benefit of controlling every single detail. However this is probably the most time consuming approach of all.

Use WordPress to add a blog to your website

Similar to the "Code your own" approach, using Wordpress, even though a bit of a faster approach, it still includes downloading Wordpress, custom coding it, and uploading it to your server.

If you don't want to deal with managing your code, blog, and hosting then coding it either from scratch of using WordPress may not be your cup of tea.

Use Ghost to add a blog to your website

Ghost is another service similar to blogstatic, however adding it on a /subfolder of your root domain comes down to paying a steep price of $249/month.

Another downside to using Ghost is that even though Ghost offers many templates to choose from, it is very challenging to customize it to look like your website.

What other free services are there available to add a blog to your website?

There are other free services you can use, but they require advanced skills to set them up.

Using Medium or Substack

Free platforms like Medium or Substack are not meant to be adding as a /subfolder running your blog on your website's root domain. They are designed to be used as a standalone approach. However, if you really want to do so, they you can do that by something called "reverse proxy" — which is an advanced approach and requires that you have a shell access on your server.

Also, similar to Ghost, modifying their styles to resemble your website is super challenging or close to impossible.

Final verdict

Using blogstatic is one of the easiest ways. You can go from "zero to one" in no time at all. The best part is that there's nothing to install and it's hosted already for you. All you have to do is start writing — making blogstatic the the most convenient way of adding a blog to your website.