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Page or Post and ranking of each

by john2202
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Can anyone tell me whether a page or post may rank better than the other or will they rank the same. Also i currently have a post on a particular subject, if i have a page on a similar subject can they both rank well eg: post called "newmarket inn hotel" and the page will be called "newmarket inn". Both will have similar but unique copy on it. How does google decide which will rank better and will they both rank!
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    In the end Google doesn't care what you call the HTML page (Post vs Page). Both webpages will rank & even rank for the exact same keyword on the same domain If they're optimized.

    Links & on-page optimization is the basics for ranking both pages. I know that's a generic answer but it's hard to go into detail without seeing the big picture (domain). Similar webpages are fine but also make sure the page titles are unique.
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    • Profile picture of the author Christian Grey
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      In the end Google doesn't care what you call the HTML page (Post vs Page). Both webpages will rank & even rank for the exact same keyword on the same domain If they're optimized.

      Links & on-page optimization is the basics for ranking both pages. I know that's a generic answer but it's hard to go into detail without seeing the big picture (domain). Similar webpages are fine but also make sure the page titles are unique.
      So its same for content management. Wordpress or Blogging ?
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by Christian Grey View Post

        So its same for content management. Wordpress or Blogging ?
        Google is looking at the HTML source code of the webpage/s.

        Example Google does know how to identify a Wordpress blog by looking at the HTML of the blog page for the current Wordpress version. I found that out a year or so ago when Webmaster Tools gave me a message telling me my WP version was outdated. I went back & removed the WP version from my blogs HTML source code & never got the WMT message again without updating the WP version.

        Google also has Blog Search, which obviously knows the popular blog (CMS) platforms (ex: blogger, wordpress, etc...). Currently the blog search is a hidden search filter. There's multiple signals for Google to find blogs/CMS.

        Still, If a person wanted to they could copy/paste a WP blog HTML source code over to a plain HTML website & go back & remove any reference to WP in the source code, in that case Google wouldn't know it's a blog unless every single webpage on the domain kept mentioning the keyword blog. My point is, again, it's all about the source code when Google bot lands on the page.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        Originally Posted by Christian Grey View Post

        So its same for content management. Wordpress or Blogging ?
        Though Google sees both as pages I do think there are a few advantages CMS pages have particularly on WP. In a lot of blogs pages will remain static in terms of ranking values. Many people will link to the home page of a WP site rather than the article link itself (because at the time the article is on the front page). As the blogger posts new posts things change on that page (which may cause increases and decreases in rank) and the original post will even disappear from the home page linked to.

        IF you do have something you want to stay fixed (in terms of on page, relevance score and semantic indexing) I'd favor the page greatly. In my opinion with navigation from the home page in place it will remain more stable for ranking factors.
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  • Profile picture of the author godoveryou
    Google ranks 'documents.' Post, page, categoty, tag or some random pdf file on your domain...

    It doesn't matter what the internal reference name for that document is... if it has a unique url then it MAY get ranked.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
      "Documents" that's the word I could never find when trying to explain it. I would say "everything is a page now FU". Now my vocabulary has evolved on the subject, I thank the Sire!!!
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by godoveryou View Post

      Google ranks 'documents.'
      Yep, that pretty much sums up every file format that Google crawls (ex: .html, .pdf, .xml, etc...)
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  • Profile picture of the author godoveryou
    Well I didn't think of the term myself.

    In my free time I enjoy grabbing a glass of wine, a cigar and cracking open the latest year's edition of the tax code for fun - but when that isn't available Google patents do the job as well. They refer to ranked entities as documents so I stole their verbage for it.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEOWizard417
    If you're using WP and can manage it, I would go with pages as it preserves your link juice better. Plus you don't have to worry about duplicate posts being created. If you're going to use posts, I'd say make use of categories to create easy navigation and a better user experience but avoid using any tags, archives and so on.

    But from an SEO standpoint, just using a page or post doesn't make a difference as either can rank.
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