SEO - Wordpress VS. Dynamic Website

[shadowboxa]

Hi all. I am seeking some expert advice on the following:

(Example only) - My website howtoloseweight.com is seo'd to target that massive keyword "how to lose weight". The info on the homepage never changes.

Another keyword that i want to seo off that site is "the best diet foods" so i create the page howtoloseweight.com/the-best-diet-foods

Now, I want to update this static URL with a new diet food everyday. So one day there is new info on spinach, and the next day I post some info on fish etc. on "the-best-diet-foods" subpage.

I am looking for the best way to do this. I know the obvious answer is use wordpress and make "thebestdietfoods" the homepage, which can be updated with posts daily and have "how to lose weight" as a static subpage. But "how to lose weight" must be my home page and domain, as it is an old domain with PR.

Is there any way to do what I want to do using wordpress - perhaps I have missed something?

Is the only option to have a dynamic subpage with a static URL, to do it without wordpress?

Thanks in advance.

[packerfan]

Why not just install wordpress in the directory "the-best-diet-foods" and make daily posts for the Food of the day or whatever? Then you just link your homepage to the blog, but your homepage stays intact.

Then each day you just add a new post, you'd end up with a URL like...

howtoloseweight.com/the-best-diet-foods/fish

I'm not an expert, but I don't see what you couldn't do that.

[zoobie]

You can use category I suppose. So every time you update a post in wordpress, you can put under the category of "the best diet foods" so the URL will look like:

howtoloseweight.com/the-best-diet-foods/your-day-1-content/

etc.

Does it help?

[shadowboxa]

Hey thanks for that. Though I wonder how nice google will play when I try to rank a category.

So anchort text will be "howtoloseweight.com/the-best-diet-foods" =examplekeyword<>

Have you or anyone you know done this before, with the category?

[Ettienne]

Even if you use wordpress for your subdomain your .com domain surely wont lose its pagerank, although both the main page and subpage will merge and SEO will be based on both alltogether (does that make sense?)

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is yes, install wordpress on the subdomain, it won't affect your PR unless your "best diet foods" part of the site is really bad, but if you have pagerank, I'm sure you know what youre doing so dont worry about that