Which ranks better a static website or a blog?

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I have seen some posts by other warriors, as well as other SEO experts, that they have created websites that contain one piece of content per page and they are having top ranks.

As a newbie, I was doing some research lately about internet marketing. As I understood from my research is that Google loves updated content and that you should always add content to your site to rank well. The way that blogs work.

Does anybody have an idea how are the other warriors and SEO experts having top ranks with static websites?
#blog #ranks #static #website
  • Profile picture of the author SageSound
    search engines generally can't tell whether the content is being served up from static content or dynamically via a content management system like Wordpress, Joomla, or Drupal.

    There are static websites that haven't been updated in years that still generate lots of traffic and sales.

    And you'll find a ton of worthless Wordpress blogs that get little if any traffic and sales.

    Pick a platform that you find easy to work with and just start working it!

    You're going to get a bunch of replies here where everybody says to use Wordpress. Again, the search engines don't care. Learn some basic SEO and just play around. Build several -- use WP, wordpress.com, blogger.com, squidoo.com, etc. See what kind of effort is involved on your part and what sort of results you get. In the end YOU control your results, not Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrey
    SEO is the key here. Your web-site should follow SEO strategy to rank well. I was trying blogs and simple HTML... What ranked better? The one has more SEO in it.
    Recently I set a test for keyword: london airport taxis and bought domain london-airporttaxis.com I did some mistake in coding plus little of content and google haven't indexet the title of the web-site. In result it was and is in nowhere now. =) Even backlinks from hight pr relates sites didn't make a lot of sense.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexander CPA
    It doesn't really matter to be honest, obviously running a blog gives you advantages compared to having a static website, easily created sitemaps, easily changed features, rss feed, etc. Of course you can do all of this on a static website as well, it all depends on how much you want to optimize your website. As long whatever you choice to go with, gets optimized properly you'll be fine with ranking for keywords on that site. Of course as you rightfully said, google does love updating websites/content, which is a advantage to go with a blogging platform, but of course, it's all down to you, from a SEO point of view, it doesn't really matter. From a point of "doing it the easy way", wordpress is the answer to be honest.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Due to the nature of a blog, which could actually be a static site that
      gets updates, the more updates you do, the better. News sites the
      same way.

      QDF: Query deserves freshness.

      Many nonblog websites don't need updating, but may have blogs
      with them, just to remain fresh.

      There really is no difference to basic SEO in both, but blogs will
      take more attention to get them right, thus the invention of
      various plug-ins.

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author socialbookmark
    I don't see any difference between optimizing and rankig a blog and website. Both of them can be optimized the same. But if you are new in managing website, i suggest you to start with a blog. Managing blog is so easy and all you need is offered to you for free. So you can concentrate on writing unique content and making backlinks for it. And after some months, you can make your own domains. Its mys suggestion.
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  • Profile picture of the author brandonbaker
    Inherently, neither of these types of sites will rank better. Blogs could take years to update and "static" sites can be updated daily. There is no inherently better way to rank. The reason why people say Google loves blogs is because they tend to have good internal linking structure and they are (usually) updated frequently, so they take advantage of the QDF factor, as Paul mentioned above. I definitely notice that my rankings take a spike the day after I post. It's amazing how much of a parallel there is, actually.
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  • Profile picture of the author leo.prash
    compared to static website and blog, we cant really judge which among is better. coz even blog is a normal website.
    one wins over the other depending upon the content of that particular website or blog.

    it can be judged on how effectively a blog or website is worked upon..
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  • Profile picture of the author olakh
    The static website can give u the good ranking according to blog
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  • Profile picture of the author addyj672
    That thing will rank better which seo is done better.
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