If you rank a blog is it possiable to turn it into a static html site?

it's possible for the most part. you might lose your rank though, if any of the elements are missing.

I assume that you mean that you have wordpress installed on your hosting and not a wordpress hosted blog?

I would ask why you want to make the site static pages? Wordpress can make it appear as such. Using "Pages" instead of posts takes you out of that blog categories and acts as a content management system.
WP presents pages as if they were static pages as to the web browser there is no difference between the 2. You could even use wordpress for a one page website and no one would ever know it was on wordpress if you wanted it that way.

What are you trying to achieve by doing this? Just faster delivery?

Thats just utter madness.

Why not just change the Wordpress site to a cms and add your static pages but still retain the blog component.

Example here is a few sites we have done this with. You not only keep the juice for the blog but get added juice for the static pages.

MP3 Sound Stream Software Streaming Audio made Easy
Promotional Mugs and Glassware Straight from the Printer
Tyrehouse for car tyres and servicing in Sydney Metro area

Quentin

I think you are a bit confused on what you can do with wordpress.
Here's a simple example site that is wordpress but uses mostly all "pages" for the static content.
It's a local band: Hoosier Highway - Country Music Performance Band - Book this Country Music Band for your next live event

Besides the obvious plug-ins you would never know it was wordpress.
It also uses 2 separate css files for the main page and the inner pages.
With a little bit of coding you can have different backgrounds for different pages etc while still having blog capabilities and not losing your rankings.

If you click on one of the "Upcoming Show Dates" from the front page you will be taken to a post that is blog format. The rest of the site uses pages.

IMHO there is no advantage to creating static pages. Use the CMS part of WP and it will work out as desired and with less work in the end.
The key is learning how to use the real power built into WP and not just the blogging features. There is no set way your site has to look just because of WP. It can look just like any other static site in the world, high end or not.

Changing a site from wordpress to html is a step backward. You can find a theme to do just about anything static with wordrpess. If you want to keep it all the same you can just add a cache plugin which will make your site static. If you change your format try not to delete any links. Google doesn't like missing pages.

I'm eagerly awaiting a definite answer to this. I have the same question, at least I do if I'm understanding the OP. Here is my take based on my situation.

I have a blog. It is and has always been on top of google for a certain phrase.

I don't like blogs. I want to put the same content on a "regular" web page.

Will it stay on top of Google or not?

George Wright

I have the same question for another reason.

I would like to sell offline Domains. Example : I would rank on page one for a keyword say "lasvegas hairdresser" and I buy lasvegashairdresser.com and put up a blog add content then get to page one. I then sell it to an exclusive hairdresser who already has a expensive Static site they just want the same traffic generated by page one but pointing to there site. How do I do it without losing my page one because the content has changed?
I hope I am being understood been bothering me

George,

I don't think there is a definite answer to this. (Or, maybe the big G. has it... )

Let's take this hypothetical case: one has a blog with 5 posts, 2 Pages.
Now, you can go to see all those posts/Pages and while there, right-click > View Source and copy the source code.

Paste them in separate HTML files; add the stylesheet and the images... (eventually, edit the url/path to images and stylesheet) and you can delete the whole blog.

Upload instead your 7 HTML files (+CSS and images) - here you go with a seemingly identitcal site which is not a blog.
Of course, additonaly, you can edit out anything and everything that refers to a blog (comments, date, whatever) or you can just save the content and place it in your own HTML template.

If you ask me, it could fare even better than the original blog.
It could be as well that it falls from the grace of G. and sinks to the bottom.

And for all those that say the big G. "loves" blogs and/or WP - if you want to convince me, you will need to provide data showing that the special components of a blog script (pinging, commenting, feeds, new content on the top etc.) are really helpful in achieving a good position in SERP.

Make no mistake: I like blogs, I like WP... even more, unlike many users, I even know WP. I can make a site with WP that you would never say it was a blog. And better looking than any traditional html site. Which means I will use this blogging software or CMS for many different sites because for me it is easy and comfortable to work with.

However, up till now nobody could ever show me satisfactory data (not opinion!) proving that using a blogging script takes you faster to the top of the SERP.

You see, George, that's why we don't have a definite answer: because we are not sure that our premises are correct or not

I think what you're looking for is a theme
that is going to suit your needs.

I can recommend Thesis, but there are
more to choose from, do some research and
see which themes have the option of CSS
and HTML, etc.

or....

Just set up redirects for certain pages when
they rank. I did so a few times and it works like a charm!

Igor

Hey George and others

Firstly I think everyone is getting confused and bamboozled by technology.

A blog is simply a collection of web pages. You write a post and the software creates a web page with its own unique url just as if your were using html.

Blogging is simply the way these pages are created and delivered.

The fact that you have added a number of web pages to your site is what got it positioned in the search engines in the first place.

The thing that makes it a blog is the ability to allow comments. The post once it is written doesn't change but the software does all the organizing and submission for you.

Take away this regular content and change it to a static html site will see you slowly loose this positioning.

It is not the blog or the html that has got you the positioning but the content.

Things like wordpress simply make it easier to add this content.

Static front pages and using wordpress as a CMS just reorganizes the page structure for you and the base url will still get most of the love.

So replace it with html will simply change the format as now all the pages will have html at the end so possibly Google will start diminishing your sites popularity.

I only say this because before they saw a dynamic site with regular content and now they will see plain html.

Trying to sell off this traffic and positioning could easily backfire.

The thing is to do some tests first because it is not a normal situation and as the serps change it may work today and be devastating tomorrow..

Quentin