I know Bubble focuses on feature implementation and isn’t known for its SEO performance. For CMS-heavy or SEO-critical products, do you pair Bubble with Ghost or other SEO-friendly tools?
The only issue for Bubble in regards to maximizing SEO is the performance (ie: speed of page load and downloading all content), otherwise there is nothing that is needed for good SEO from the app that Bubble doesn’t allow you to do.
But in regards to using other systems for blogs to benefit from slightly faster page load speeds, people seem to use Ghost or other 3rd party blogs. Ghost seems to provide for the lowest price the best option, which if you are expecting to have your app scale, is likely their $31/month plan.
Are you in need of just blog, or do you have a bubble app that needs SEO for other content as well like lists of products or service providers or FAQs etc.
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To clarify, after looking into it.
Is it this 25 usd/m plan you’re recommending?
I’ve been looking for a blog, so this recommendation was/is gold.
I didn’t recommend it, just stated that if you need to scale your app, the $31/month which is $25/month paid annually (ie: $300 up front) because the free plan from Ghost seems to only allow 500 members, which I think means ‘readers’
I do not know use Ghost and do not know how Ghost works, so I do not know if people can read the blog without being a member (either paid or free).
In my apps, I build all SEO into the Bubble app, including the Blog. But for those who are looking to spend extra money each month to host a blog that can achieve incremental improvements in terms of page load speed, it seems to be the choice most Bubble developers would make as it allows for API access to create the content from bubble app into the ghost database so that you wouldn’t need to create all content in Ghost directly.
I prefer to just build this in Bubble as I have needs for SEO outside of just blogs, I prefer not to need to learn other systems, or pay for other systems, if I can just do it in Bubble and get the same results (although for page load speed, Bubble doesn’t perform as well, but for all other SEO related stuff, Bubble is just fine).
If people want to use an external blogging platform, Ghost might be fine, but I do not recommend it, nor do I recommend any other external blogging platform, so if you are looking for one, I recommend researching all that is available and making a choice that is suitable for you.
What I would recommend, is what I do, and just have the blog in Bubble.
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Thank you. I’ll keep that in mind!
On Ghost, members means people who have a login to your blog for the purposes of subscribing to premium content or any other feature that requires a login. It doesn’t limit the number of people who can visit your site to read the articles. I imagine if your main purpose is to use ghost for content marketing to drive people to your bubble app you probably wouldn’t use this feature because then each customer would have two logins for your product.
In this type of setup, you’d probably want to have the bubble app on a subdomain. There has been some activity in the blogs of people discussing how to integrate ghost into a bubble app so they are hosted at the same domain but I dont know if anyone was successful doing this and it required a lot of workarounds. There must be a way to do it because I believe, at least at one point, the bubble blog was built with Ghost (at least according to builtwith.com) and hosted at the same domain, but this may have required workarounds that are not available to bubble’s users.
A drawback of this set up is if there is a lot of content in the app itself that you would like to be indexed by the search engines because then the blog and the app are not going to be benefitting each other directly, and they will be ranked separately. But for a lot of apps, including mine, this is not an issue I face, so I went with a similar setup (though I am using webflow, not ghost for CMS).