For SEO is it better to have a blog page or a static page as the home page?

14 years ago

I would definitely use a wordpress blog page for SEO purposes, especially if you use the all in one seo and google sitemap plugins. A static page is usually not good for SEO as Google won't index it as often.

There are also wordpress themes that make your blog not look like a blog.

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spanisheye

14 years ago

You definitely want to make it a blog page as binko says, it will encourage the search engines to crawl it more often if it keeps changing.

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Matthew Duggan

14 years ago

Yep, I second, or rather third(!) binko's advice.

Google loves a blog and if it's on your front page then it will index and crawl it more often as it keeps changing. Remember, Google loves good content and it only cares about how your information can help its users. If it's regularly updated then it's likely to be current and therefore useful to Google.

Blog every time.

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Mattk

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Matthew Duggan

Yep, I second, or rather third(!) binko's advice.

Google loves a blog and if it's on your front page then it will index and crawl it more often as it keeps changing. Remember, Google loves good content and it only cares about how your information can help its users. If it's regularly updated then it's likely to be current and therefore useful to Google.

Blog every time.

I use a static page as my home page and google is at my site 1-2 times a day. The last time I added anything to the site was months ago.

My point is, Google keeps looking at my site no matter if I add content or not.

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Matthew Duggan

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Mattk

I use a static page as my home page and google is at my site 1-2 times a day. The last time I added anything to the site was months ago.

My point is, Google keeps looking at my site no matter if I add content or not.

Useful to know. I'd always known that blogs were powerful (most of my sites have them) so I assumed a changing blog front page would be better.

So, conclusion is: both work.

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JMartin

14 years ago

I agree. You can also get the best of both worlds by having "static content" on top of the page that revolves around your target kwp/market/etc.

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thecableguy 14 years ago

Originally Posted by JMartin

I agree. You can also get the best of both worlds by having "static content" on top of the page that revolves around your target kwp/market/etc.

Yeah that's what I'm experimenting with now. Using the Wordpress "Sticky" feature I can put keyword related text at the beginning of the page where they recommend and have it stay there. Sounds good in my head anyway
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madison_avenue

14 years ago

Thanks for your replies guys, I will be switching to blog front page. I have had a static page for 12 months, and I have not gone up in the google rankings at all .

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System Wide Solutions

14 years ago

hmm... nope. they don't know what they're talking about.

i have several sites that rank #1 for competitive keyterms, using mostly pages.

generally, i just keep posting to the blog, to keep the spiders coming back, either myself, outsourced, or autoblogged.

It's all about inner site link architecture. Get that right, and your pages will do well. Don't do it, and the gentlemen above become right.

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madison_avenue

14 years ago

Originally Posted by ThePassiveIncomeBlog

hmm... nope. they don't know what they're talking about.

i have several sites that rank #1 for competitive keyterms, using mostly pages.

generally, i just keep posting to the blog, to keep the spiders coming back, either myself, outsourced, or autoblogged.

It's all about inner site link architecture. Get that right, and your pages will do well. Don't do it, and the gentlemen above become right.

So are you linking from your blog posts to the static homepage, and you are finding that this is effective?

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downloadvyp

14 years ago

better not to have a static page.an updated page is a lot better

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usearchme2

14 years ago

Huh

it depends what your sites about ? does it serve a blog well the content your using ? if not then why do a blog on something that doesnt suit a blog ??

Makes no different if you change ur content daily or not, good static pages are just equally as strong as a good blog, good content is good content doesnt matter if it changes or not.

Just my opinion alternate opinion anyhow !

Woc

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bgmacaw

14 years ago

It doesn't matter for SEO purposes. Either will do fine or not so fine depending on the quality and quantity of your incoming links and the relevance of your content to target keywords.

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paulgl

14 years ago

Originally Posted by bgmacaw

It doesn't matter for SEO purposes. Either will do fine or not so fine depending on the quality and quantity of your incoming links and the relevance of your content to target keywords.

The thing is, when questions here start out: "Which is better for SEO..."
it is usually something that has nothing to do with SEO in the first place.

Then everyone jumps in on whatever their feeling is.

Hardwork, backlinks, quality.

People either don't want to hear that, or they have never heard that.
They are looking for the magic bullet.

Paul

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wolfmmiii

14 years ago

Although I personally prefer a static page, blog pages work better for me.

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Raul Mellado 14 years ago

I just entered de forum to make a question related to this, so if you don't mind, I'll re-use the post:

What, in your experience, is better if I want to make small (around 4-5 posts) sites, Adsense oriented? A static home page or blog style?

My aim is increase CTR, obviously :-)

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14 years ago

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Myheavens

14 years ago

I would definitely use a wordpress blog page for SEO purposes, especially if you use the all in one seo and google sitemap plugins.. Google loves blogs because of continuously updating of content.

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