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Found some good keywords, bought relevant domain, the dilemma: static html or wordpress?

by Marian Berghes
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Hello everyone. Found some great keywords in a niche, did some research on the niche and the competition (not too much competition), bought relevant domain name...

But I can't decide between:

1. Going for a minisite with the product reviews in it and some pre-sell text optimized for the main keyword and then go write articles etc...

2. Slap wordpress in, make a section with the reviews but in the same time have around 10 articles or so and then start social bookmarking posts etc...

Witch one do you guys I should use? I think I can rank well with the minisite (and I like them better) but I think I can also rank well with a wordpress blog too...so...for a review site with 2-3 products in it...minisite or wordpress?
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  • Profile picture of the author Leanne King
    I am so biased I shouldn't reply ....but I will anyway - WordPress all the way. You have way more scope to do stuff quickly and easily and you can easily do the review site with WordPress and without as much mucking around. Faster you build the faster you can make money from it and build another.

    All the best

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  • Profile picture of the author Marcus Paul
    I think WP is the way to go. I haven't seen significant value in a static HTML site over WP in any setting. In fact I would say that having a WP blog is a positive bias with Google, as long as you keep it updated and there are links to it. Just my two cents.
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    • Profile picture of the author Lee MacRae
      WP is a bit of a resource hog but I would have to recommend it as well as WP does seem to do better right now for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ralf Skirr
    Hi Marian,

    I suggest using word press, but intelligently.

    - make SEO tweaks.
    - create a mix of post categories and static pages.
    - put important content that is meant to last on pages and link to them permanently from your blog home page.

    Blogs where all content moves to the archive over time lose out on some major SEO chances, static sites that have little fresh content for years lose out on the advantage of growing content.

    That's why a good mix is the way to go.

    Ralf
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  • Profile picture of the author Marian Berghes
    the thing is that I will not keep it updated at all times...and I think I could rank faster using articles...

    waiting for more opinions before I make my mind
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  • Profile picture of the author Leanne King
    You can use WP as a static site you don't have to use it as a blog so you won't need to worry about updates. Plus you can use the built in future post publisher to upload any content that you may want to publish in the future.

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  • Profile picture of the author LavelleC
    Just as Leanne mentioned, I use WP as a website. It has all
    the blog functions built in of course.

    But I SEO'd it up, took out dates and useless links, added a
    few navigation links on the bottom, and when I add a blog
    post - it goes under my Articles or News section.

    You can see 2 WP sites in my sig. The "For Affiliates" site is
    TechPress theme and the "For Merchants" site is Structure
    theme.

    WP all the way.

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  • Profile picture of the author Suzanne Morrison
    One option is to configure Wordpress so that you show a permanent static page as your home page and also include a few of your latest blog posts underneath the static part. This gives you the benefit of having some sort of introductory message, but also regularly updatied content on the home page.

    Cheers,
    Suzanne
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  • Profile picture of the author JustVisiting
    Originally Posted by Marian Berghes View Post

    Hello everyone. Found some great keywords in a niche, did some research on the niche and the competition (not too much competition), bought relevant domain name...

    But I can't decide between:

    1. Going for a minisite with the product reviews in it and some pre-sell text optimized for the main keyword and then go write articles etc...

    2. Slap wordpress in, make a section with the reviews but in the same time have around 10 articles or so and then start social bookmarking posts etc...

    Witch one do you guys I should use? I think I can rank well with the minisite (and I like them better) but I think I can also rank well with a wordpress blog too...so...for a review site with 2-3 products in it...minisite or wordpress?
    How good are you with Wordpress and how fast do you want your site live?

    If your knowledge of WP is good and you know which template and plug-ins to use then I would use WP.

    If you are new to WP and want the site up-and-running fast I would use an html template.
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  • Profile picture of the author Quentin
    There are no absolutes so what I would do is get two domains and play them off against each other. This way you will know and not have to rely hear say.

    Domains are so cheap so why not try it.

    Quentin
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