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This is a big pet peeve of mine. I can't count the number of times I've been to http://blog.companyname.com and no matter where on the page I looked or clicked, I couldn't find a link to http://companyname.com, and so I'm forced to manually edit the URL in the address bar. I really can't understand why a company would do such a thing.

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Me too, exactly, and I'm only contributing a me too because a) it really bugs me too, and b) I think it's important for blog and site owners to understand this and fix it. I want to find your site; help me.

I think the disconnect is the top left logo usually returns to a "root", which in the case of a blog is the blog index. Frankly, it might be better to have that go to the home page.

Ah, but the only person who considers the "root" of your product blog to be the blog home is you.

Everybody else thinks they're reading a blog on your product site, and that clicking the logo will take you to the root of that. In other words, the homepage for your product. When it doesn't, they tend to simply hit the back button enough times to leave.

Agreed. BTW, I just changed this. Clicking the logo while at the blog now returns you to /

Well done for fixing it so fast. You're really serious about being responsive.

Is it a Wordpress blog? I recently installed Wordpress and noticed the same problem but I haven't figured out where to change it yet.

Yeah, it's almost always the home page unless the blog is styled to look like a completely separate part of the site. Here, it would be less confusing to go right to your home/about page. I do like that your about page is located at the root and that no clicks from there are required to learn about your product. As it happened, I just didn't get to your site from the root...

Glad to see all the "me toos" here. I've described this pet peeve of mine to others, and get an almost universal "meh" or "what are you talking about?"

Here at least there was a link to return to the home page, but it was titled as an about page, and the link that was titled as a home page was actually the blog home page. But yeah, I've definitely seen sites like that where they give you literally no way to get back without manually editing the URL.

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