Personal observation: Search engines index & rank WordPress Posts much faster than WordPress Pages

[Bulldozer]

Maybe it's a widely known fact that every SEO newbie knows about, but here is what I noticed from my personal experience: WordPress Pages get indexed and ranked A LOT slower than WordPress Posts.
At least this was my case.

I have a relatively fresh WordPress site that has two WordPres pages and one WordPress Post on it.

I published the two Pages about 14 days ago and they are still not indexed in all search engines, even though I manually submitted them to Yahoo, Bing, Google, etc.
At the same time the only Post on my site was published only two days ago and it is already indexed and ranking on all search engines, except Yahoo, without any manual submitting on my part.

My personal conclusion: if you run a WordPress-based web site and want fast indexing and fast ranking, use Posts, not Pages.

[BloggingPro]

I have noticed this myself. Posts are indexed damn fast, yet I usually have to re-submit my RSS feed to Feedage and usually do a Digg.com submit to get Google to come index my pages.

I've simply abandoned the pages approach, even when it makes more sense to do a page. I will then make a manual link to the post in the menu bar.

[JamesGw]

Pages don't have tags, do they? That might have something to do with it. I was also under the impression that they didn't show up in the RSS feed, but I might be wrong about that one.

[Bulldozer]

Originally Posted by BloggingPro

I've simply abandoned the pages approach, even when it makes more sense to do a page. I will then make a manual link to the post in the menu bar.

Yeah, but I need a static page for my site's Frontpage - it must show every time a visitor comes to my site.
So I cannot just forget about Pages and abandon them, because I need at least one WP Page for my web site's Frontpage.

And my static Frontage happens to be the AdSense Money page too with all the kewyord optimization and on-page SEO, and so on...
It really sucks that my frontpage is not even indexed after 14 days of backlinks building and manual submitting, while a sh|tty 2 days old post is already well indexed in every search engine's index.

I really hope the fact that it is a page will only harm the speed it gets indexed at, but will not harm its ranking once it does get indexed???

[BloggingPro]

Originally Posted by Bulldozer

Yeah, but I need a static page for my site's Frontpage - it must show every time a visitor comes to my site.
So I cannot just forget about Pages and abandon them, because I need at least one WP Page for my web site's Frontpage.

And my static Frontage happens to be the AdSense Money page too with all the kewyord optimization and on-page SEO, and so on...
It really sucks that my frontpage is not even indexed after 14 days of backlinks building and manual submitting, while a sh|tty 2 days old post is already well indexed in every search engine's index.

I really hope the fact that it is a page will only harm the speed it gets indexed at, but will not harm its ranking once it does get indexed???

Well if your using a page as your static homepage, and your domain is at least indexed, then the content on the page is indexed. Now the exact url for the page may not be indexed, but it shouldn't effect the performance of the homepage.

[IM Ash]

Not true! I published a page on one of my sites on Tuesday... it was indexed in less than 2 hours and it is already ranking on the top of the 2nd page in the SERPS for a [3600] search term.

All my sites have a static homepage and they all rank well. Your site is new and therefore it is not well indexed and I could be wrong on this but I believe wordpress has a function that automatically pings a new post and that is probably why these posts have been indexed.

[yukon]

If your Index page is always going to be static, then why do you have a WP-Page?

I would create a custom static index.php page, & get rid of the band-aid (WP-Page).

BTW, that's not true about WP-Pages vrs WP-Post (for the average sites), sounds like you have theme issues.

[Bulldozer]

Originally Posted by yukon

sounds like you have theme issues.

It is possible... I used Artisteer to create this theme.
Does Artisteer create problematic themes SEO-wise?
And if this is the case, aren't all the problems being fixed by the WP SEO plugins that I use to optimize my pages / sitemaps / posts / breadcrumbs?

[Fernando Veloso]

Honestly? I really can't tell the difference and frankly I own some sites just using PAGES and they go pretty well, thank you.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Bulldozer

It is possible... I used Artisteer to create this theme.
Does Artisteer create crappy themes SEO-wise?
And if this is the case, isn't it all fixed by the WP SEO plugins that I use to optimize my pages / sitemaps/ posts / breadcrumbs?

I looked into Artisteer when they first came out (2 -3 years ago?), when I looked at multiple WP themes that Artisteer created they were all bloated with way more code than needed, I'm talking simple looking MFA style themes.

Maybe they have changed since I first looked at them, I don't know?

WP-plugins should be used very sparingly. Just like running multiple antivirus software on a PC at the same time, they'll start working against each other & cause a headache.

[MikeFriedman]

The search engines see a post the same as a page unless you have some bloated garbage code in your theme mucking it up.

[Bulldozer]

Originally Posted by yukon

I would create a custom static index.php page, & get rid of the band-aid (WP-Page).

Sounds like a good idea. So I just create an empty HTML document with my content in it, and then save it as index.php ?

How is this new frontpage going to work with my WordPress theme?
Is it going to integrate good wth it, show menu, sidebar, etc?
Or is it going to be a completely new frontpage wih different design by itself?
Where should I upload index.php to?