WordPress and HTML template/one Site
Here is my dilemma and question. From what I've read WordPress has a lot of benefits when it comes to SEO. This is good for me because for right now SEO will be my main form of traffic. There are many other aspects of WordPress that make me want to incorporate it as well. I have one domain that is "review" related and for the time being need to keep it that way. I have a WordPress template that I would like to use as the main page of my review site. However, for the actual review pages I have a HTML based template that I'd love to use. The HTML template includes an index.html, a style.css, and an images folder. So basically what I want is if you go to my domain's main site it will look like my WordPress template (this has already been set up). Listed off to the right will be a list of different review categories (ie teeth whitening, Business opportunities, etc). If someone clicks on say "teeth whitening" they will go to another directory on the same domain. On this page will be the HTML review page for teeth whitening.
The problem is I don't know how to do this. I could make "links" as oppose to "pages" on the WordPress page I suppose but would this then take away any of the SEO, tracking, etc. benefits of WordPress? What other impacts or disadvantages would this have? Is there a better way without having to have different domains? Is there a way to make a real "teeth whitening" page within WordPress so that the teeth whitening page is a true WordPress page fully incorporated with the rest of the site yet show up as COMPLETELY blank and be able to show the HTML page instead? I just don't know how to do this or if it can even be done.
I should add here, as I'm sure most of you are thinking, I am not worried about the asthetic flow of this. In other words I'm not worried that on the main page someone will be presented with one layout and on the review pages there will be a totally different layout. The reason for this is that I won't be focusing on any SEO in regards to the main page of the website. The main page will mainly be for my use and for the use of applying for CPA networks. I would actually be optimizing the sub-directories so that in a search mydomain.com/teethwhitening would come up as a result. This is yet another reason why I would like them to be somehow incorporated into the WordPress part of the site. I don't even think there will be links from the review pages back to the main page although someone could just manually enter it in.
I hope all of this isn't too confusing. I know it's pretty unorthodox to do it this way. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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