Minisites, PAGES, POSTS, and RSS feeds OH MY

[jsherloc]

Ok, I've got a little dilemma and would LOVE for some Warrior feedback.

I think some others might be int his situaton as well, so hopefully this thread will help some other people.

I will be doing microniche mini-sites (adsense, product-based,), and I have my wordpress blog set-up like this:

mainkeywordphrase.com is a PAGE (the homepage)
related keywords (lower search #) are all optimized blog posts

I use All in One SEO

The related keywords all show up in my nav bar, and to the avg user the whole thing just looks like a regular page.

The reason I am doing this is because I can't make a POST the root domain (mainkeywordphrase.com) without making it a page. Well, I can, but I am going to run into dupe content issues, ex.- "mainkeywordphrase.com/main-keyword-phrase"

I am assuming that I can still take full advantage of RSS feeds this way, but correct me if I am wrong. The problem I see is that now the main keyword phrase is not a part of the RSS feed? I am just wondering if my main keyword being a page will affect anything to do with the RSS feed, as I am still learning the ins and outs of RSS?

Anyone have any opinions regarding this matter? I believe that all things being equal (backlinks,onsite optimization,etc), wordpress posts and pages should rank the same...BUT...I am still trying to formulate a SIMPLE site structure that makes sense for these types of sites. (similar to xfactor and internetmarketer99 sites)

Any input here is greatly appreciated!


-Jim