Best Way to Add a Blog in Carrd
Short answer: Carrd has no built-in blog. Host the blog on a separate blogging tool and link it from your Carrd site, either on a subdomain (blog.yourdomain.com) or in a subfolder (yourdomain.com/blog).
A common issue with Carrd is the lack of a built-in blog feature. However, there is a solution that allows for the addition of a blog smoothly and seamlessly.
First, let's look at why it’s a problem not having a blog on Carrd. Businesses or product founders who build their site on Carrd cannot include easily company updates or show their build progress. (it's possible by adding a subpage under the button but it's a lot of hustle ) It makes their site very static.
Lack of SEO
One thing you can’t do easily on Carrd is building a content website. There’s no way of dynamically updating or adding content or managing it on the site. This means you can’t keep adding content for SEO purposes without a lot of work.
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I’ve recently added a blog with a new blogging tool called Blogmaker (formerly Blogstatic). It’s very easy to use and makes the writing workflow much simpler.
There are three choices for adding a Blogmaker blog to Carrd. You can use it on a premium domain or free subdomain in Blogmaker. In this post, I will focus on the first option.
If you are using a premium domain you can either use a subdomain (e.g blog.templatery.com) or a subdirectory/subfolder (e.g. templatery.com/blog). The subdomain route is nice and neat as a company blog and is easy to set up.
However, you don’t get the SEO benefit on your main domain. Google sees subdomains as separate sites, so only the subdomain would rank.
To get the SEO benefit, use the subdirectory route. It’s a little more involved to set up, but nothing too complicated.
Another tip is to get the navigation working correctly on both Blogmaker and your Carrd site so that the switch between the site and blog is virtually seamless.
Other ways to add a blog to Carrd
- A hosted blog tool: Blogmaker (formerly Blogstatic) and BlogHandy both connect a blog to a Carrd site. Check that the tool supports a subfolder (yourdomain.com/blog) before you choose: a subfolder keeps the posts on your own domain.
- Carrd's free blog plugin template: a community template in Carrd's own gallery pulls posts from Google Docs. Fine for a few updates, not for a content site.
- A blog on its own platform, linked from your menu: WordPress.com, Ghost or Substack on a subdomain. The easiest to run, but search engines can treat the blog as a separate site.
- Extra Carrd sections: one hidden section per post. Works for three or four posts; past that, use one of the options above.