Question

I am using Shopify to build an online store. I am wondering how some sites, e.g.:

http://www.ksubi.com

http://www.gamerprint.co.uk

are managing their blogs. Clearly, they have somehow integrated tumblr blogs so that they appear at blog.domain.com

This is something I am interested in doing, as I think the shopify option of domain.com/blog/blog etc is rather inelegant. I understand that my preference might not be optimal in terms of SEO, but I don’t really care about that; I don’t intend for the blog to draw users to my store.

With the above in mind, my questions are as follows:

1. How have these sites set up apparent subdomains on shopify? (I cannot access FTP, so I cannot do this) — (BTW: I have purchased a domain from shopify, which I am using.)

2. How have they integrated tumblr to the blog.domain.com address?

Thanks for reading — hope someone can help! 🙂

Answer 1

From the Shopify Docs:

What if I need to change my domain information? (WHOIS, DNS setup, etc.) #

Shopify uses OpenSRS (Tucows) for domain registration and part
of the integration with Shopify is that you will be provided with a
web interface where you will be able to further configure your domain.
These details will be emailed to you upon registration of a domain.

So it sounds like there should be some information in that email that will direct you to a place to edit your domains registration information. Then you can follow Tumblr’s instructions to set up the subdomain.