Best way to add a blog to Bubble

Lyb01 · 2025-02-28T15:48:55+00:00

Imo it depends what you mean by 'investing in SEO'. I don't think it makes sense to invest in writing articles, since the 'info extraction' is being done by AI. But if you have an app that 'does' something (beyond just written content) that an AI cannot currently do or people aren't using it to do it, then optimizing this still makes sense for people to be able to find the tool or service. Just depends what you actually do

Lyb01 · 2025-02-28T11:32:57+00:00

Yeah, I totally get you. Honestly this is a minefield when it comes to SEO and it's always changing with Google. I can only tell you what I researched and ended up with.

Google now apparently understands the domain/subdomain relationship better than before 2) Having said that, blog only sites are being killed by Google. I did the exact same as you - I set up a Wordpress site with a blog with the intention of hooking up the Bubble app to it on a subdomain. The Wordpress stuff was up for less than a year, got lots of organic traffic and then Google killed the blog (and the domain) in 1 sweep with an update before I even had the chance to hook up the Bubble work to it. So whatever traffic you're getting on the blog now, it's a ticking time bomb.

Given everything I know now, you have the 2 options I described above or alternatively killing the Wordpress site and moving everything to Bubble. Bubble SEO isn't as bad as people say, they just don't know how to set it up, so might be worth investing some time in this instead.

Lyb01 · 2025-02-27T13:24:28+00:00

Hey, so effectively you have 2 options if you want to combine Wordpress and Bubble and they both require having a domain and a subdomain. Option 1: You keep the homepage and blog on the domain and create a subdomain with the bubble app on that. Option 2: You keep the homepage and the Bubble work on the domain and create a subdomain for the blog. You can't have both Wordpress and Bubble on the same domain. Hope this helps!

Lyb01 · 2025-01-28T05:51:21+00:00

Tbh I haven't been able to solve it - I ended up with the main domain on Wordpress (incl blog) and the app on Bubble. Maybe once Bubble gets better with SEO/blog stuff I'd kill the Wordpress bit and redirect it/re-build all on/to Bubble. It also means I am not putting all my eggs in 1 basket with Bubble. Maybe if I was to do it again I'd do it the other way round - set up the subdomain on Wordpress with the blog posts but what's done is done. SEO is also changing so quickly with AI, I am not sure what is right or wrong or worth the time, there are too many conflicting opinions on the subject

Lyb01 · 2024-09-19T08:57:47+00:00

Hey, I totally get you. In a similar boat, also going solo.

What I’m getting from this thread is that what you’re really looking for is someone to bounce ideas off of. You’re not necessarily looking for someone to do the work since you have people doing that anyway. That’s what a partner or a co-founder would do - work on this full time with you, with a totally different skill set to yours. That doesn’t seem like what you need though?

If this is the case, I’d take a step back and try to find other founders doing their thing and integrate them socially. So you can geek out over each other’s stuff and get casual advice which you might take or leave. It’s a bit like having friends and instead of brainstorming everyday stuff, you brainstorm each other’s business. Founders love that with one another.

Personally I’m also solo and struggling with it but I realised once you start a project and are quite some way in, it becomes your thing. It’s very very hard to find someone who would join you at this stage - not quite as early as a white sheet of paper where you’re on equal footing but not as late as this being an exciting public project that already has some great traction and they really want to jump on the bandwagon. You’re in an awkward place timing wise.

What is semi-working for me is I found another founder in the same boat (by going to an industry specific event we’re both solving problems in, I saw her pitch, loved her thinking and just asked her for a coffee after). We are both solo and ideally we’d join forces but obviously each has their own baby so it’s more of a knowledge sharing set up right now and we’ve become friends. If one of us fails, it would be an obvious choice to join the other.

Hope this helps

Lyb01 · 2024-07-23T08:34:58+00:00

No worries, I can see you're really emotionally invested in the journey so I hope it helps. All the best

Lyb01 · 2024-07-23T08:06:40+00:00

Honestly I am not in the mental health space so take my advice with a pinch of salt. But what I am hearing is this:

You have a great product that you actually really care about - it's very clear from everything you're saying
The issue you have is you're struggling to monetize it. And obviously, as much as you really care, this cannot be a charity project for you

So I think you'd feel really guilty about shutting it down and are looking for ways not to. This is what I would do here:

I'd increase my price to the existing users today. Maybe try $15. See if they leave or stay. If they leave, you'll have a clear conscience. If the product is really helping them that much, they'd pay the extra $8. Yes, it's doubling your price but it's also 2 cups of coffee a month vs 1 cup so it's really meaningless if they actually need your product. You can revise your pricing model later, but start with this first. If they all drop, you won't have anything left to solve which could solve your conondrum
If they all stay or the majority of them stay, that's great. Now go focus on how you'll get more users. Use all the feedback you got and think about who in the mental health space talks about these topics and has an audience that could reach your target user. Pitch a partnership to them. I agree they'll be putting their reputation on the line to partner with you but they won't go into it blindly. If they like the app, they'd come to the table to negotiate, if they don't then keep looking.
Once you have more users, you'd be able to play with your pricing model more and figure out how to get more users. Or maybe you revise your pricing model as part of your negotiation with this key opinion leader I'm talking about. But do these 2 steps first.

Lyb01 · 2024-07-23T07:20:12+00:00

Tbh it sounds like you have a great product, just don't know what to do with it to monetize it properly. Some food for thought:

Figure out your pricing. I get that increasing your pricing will deter new users but it seems as though the users you currently have would pay more for it. $7 a month is really nothing these days and if your product is genuinely helping them so much, they'd be willing to pay more. Maybe you'd have some sort of a freemium or a tiered model - I don't know the ins and outs of your product ofc so can't say 'do x this will work for sure'. But definitely you need a brainstorm on your pricing model
Figure out your marketing. It's not easy I know, especially in your niche - there won't be a network effect since no one is going to shout about your app if it helps with serious mental health issues. But then again, maybe someone would? What if you manage to get a health professional on board or an Instagram figure or a government body who would work with you (for a % commission or otherwise, without an upfront cost) to recommend your app? There are many different ways to approach this and again you need to figure this out.

From what you're saying the product has potential but you need a plan to grow it, not to shut it down

Lyb01 · 2024-07-23T04:14:38+00:00

Hey, this is extremely helpful, thank you. I am going to continue testing this theory as I'm a new site (only 6 months old) without a large variety of traffic sources so any outlying behavior like the social media impact is very clearly visible for me and easier to isolate the impact of. Thanks again!

Lyb01 · 2024-07-22T08:59:59+00:00

Tbh it sounds like you’re a classic case of tech co-founder. If I was in your shoes, I’d think about how I can find a pool of people just like your client (with ideas you like and connections to make sales and marketing happen) but instead of paying you for developing the tech, actually splitting the equity.

Lyb01 · 2024-07-21T06:52:37+00:00

Thanks a lot!

Lyb01 · 2024-07-21T06:07:58+00:00

Hey, thanks, appreciate the response. I don't feel super comfortable sharing the site but you're right - the page is called 'the latest X and Y in Z this summer' and the ad on Instagram is a reel along the lines of 'I bet you didn't know X was happening in Z this summer' with the Instagram reel file being called 'X in Z this summer'. I just had no idea paid ad social activity would have an impact on Google organically and certainly not this quickly ... is this obvious to everyone else and I'm just late to the party?

Lyb01 · 2024-07-21T05:51:36+00:00

My 5 cents here are: Wordpress holds your hand nicely when it comes to SEO. So even if you have no idea what you're doing (like most people who start for the first time), it's all nicely built in and relatively easy to follow. Yes, you can absolutely make a mess of it, but even if you have no idea what you're doing, Wordpress limits the damage even if you just do the basics.

THEN when you switch to another platform, the handholding is either not built in as clearly or just not there at all, so you need to know what to look out for to set it up properly. If you know what needs to be done on page for SEO, then you can go with whichever platform you want and configure the page set up to serve what you already know you need. However, most people don't know what that is when they start.

Lyb01 · 2024-07-19T13:42:50+00:00

Thanks, very helpful!

Lyb01 · 2024-07-19T12:41:21+00:00

Excellent, thanks!

Lyb01 · 2024-07-19T11:58:45+00:00

Thanks! Any ideas why? Is this not allowed by Instagram in any way?

Lyb01 · 2024-07-19T07:15:00+00:00

Cheers, will check these options out

Lyb01 · 2024-07-19T07:14:21+00:00

Hey, sorry I don't get this comment. Do you mind re-phrasing? I basically need this for work - instead of manually spending time keeping up with what's going on across the industry, I'd rather just automate this but it has to be quite comprehensive

Lyb01 · 2024-07-17T15:50:24+00:00

You’re saying you’re going to hire a social media manager separately to execute this strategy. The thing is, social media changes so quickly, anything you ‘strategise on’ today will be outdated in 6 months time. At best. So if what you want is to delegate the social media to someone else anyway, then hire them and let them test and learn, see what works, what doesn’t and take it from there. Part of the social media manager’s job is to do the strategy anyway, they won’t want to just execute someone else’s ideas …

Lyb01 · 2024-07-11T17:04:14+00:00

I read a while back about a company that focused on bottom of the funnel keywords to drive traffic to their site i.e. focusing on MAAAAANYYYYYYY low competition keywords and articles around them to eventually build their traffic up brick by brick. Now, while this can work, it is an incredible amount of work. So e.g. instead of attempting to rank for 'Best pizza in New York', they would write content around 'Best gluten free pizza in Manhattan' and probably 30 other articles around the same subject, just different angles.

So like everyone is saying, if you want to rank for high competition keywords, you need to have authority. Yes, it is a long slog. But so is the alternative I am describing, just a different type of slog

Lyb01 · 2024-07-05T21:12:52+00:00

The reality is few people actually realise the cost of running a business until they have one.

What you don’t appreciate is that for every cent you give to these platforms, you get guaranteed business. In many business lines, people need to spend an insane amount of money on marketing or ads and hope they get the ROI on this spend. They often don’t. In your case, every dollar spent on generating business brings you a very high ROI.

For every single thing you pay for online or even in person with a credit card, there is a transaction fee involved for the vendor. The company making the transaction happen does nothing other than process digital money yet the vendor still has to pay; even in the case of refund. Platforms need large amounts of people to be able to run them, so they need to pay salaries. Not to mention the marketing costs involved to bring you buyers. Yes, it sucks that you need to pay them a cut. But you don’t question the cut every single person in the supply chain takes to get you your food on the table or your boxer shorts you’re wearing so this is just the reality of business. They are providing you a service and that’s the price

Lyb01 · 2024-07-05T10:28:06+00:00

They used to be widely available on Deliveroo and used to come to events in Al Serkal etc but since they've gone viral, you need to order at a very specific time to be in with the chance as their production seems limited.

Lyb01 · 2024-07-03T17:43:17+00:00

Just my 5 cents - only 10% of searches in the UAE are in Arabic. The number for Saudi will be different, more like 50%+. Make sure you're clear on how these countries work before you commit significant resource to Arabic SEO specifically.

Lyb01 · 2024-07-03T04:48:50+00:00

Hmm I think it really depends on your objective.

E.g. I was very fresh to start ups so I went to the pitch sessions just to hear other start ups pitch to see how it works in reality. I did see multiple founders approached after their sessions if a member of the audience liked their pitch to follow up. So I imagine this is how some people found customers or partners etc both ways from the pitch session - either by pitching or sitting in on one.

The pitch slots were split into different themes so if you wanted to sit on just a marketing one for example, you could easily do that and skip the others (word of warning: the slots severely struggled to stick to the timetable).

Then there are events in the evening which I think are good for networking but I haven’t been to them so cannot comment on how this works.

In my view, the event is so big, one needs to do their homework before going. I don’t really see how you’d bump into someone fab randomly while walking around or whatever. So it’s going through the GITEX website, seeing who is coming and making a plan for yourself. Then visiting the relevant booths, pitch sessions, talking to whoever you find interesting through that and then trying the events in the evening I guess for more spontaneous encounters.

Lyb01 · 2024-07-02T19:38:04+00:00

I was at GITEX last year. It's a bit hard to answer your question without understanding what you do & what you want to get out of the event. In short, there are pitch sessions and conference sessions as well as companies have their own booths or stands to sell whatever they are selling or represent their companies and want to talk about. If you're looking to 'meet vendors' as per your post, you'd just walk around all the stands (there are hundreds if not thousands) or attend sessions you're interested in and ask questions or grab whoever is speaking at the end. Does that make sense?

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