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When you are making a Wordpress site do you use Post or Pages??? Example if you have 3 - 500 word articles and you are building a site, do you do post or pages? or does it matter in SEO eyes
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Nobody else can answer that... except yourself.

    When you know what you want to do with your site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Andre Slater
      Your right, but when your taught post and you keep reading to change your site to pages, then there is confusion... I just want to know what other wordpress site builders use. Do they make a static page or post? Does it help SEO ranking one vs other.

      This is a valid question. If people are teaching both when building affiliate wordpress sites, then for me to choose I would like to know the majority.
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  • Profile picture of the author waqasikd
    its deppend on you what you want a page or a post........
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Confusion comes from every dick teaching about WordPress... after discovering it yesterday

    Plus, self-appointed SEO-gurus think they understand WP. They don't...

    So, if you really, really want to make a wise decision about your future WP site - you need to sit down, make a chart (on paper) of your planned content structure; the hierarchy of organizing it and stuff like that. When you are done, you will know 100% sure what kind of WP entries to use for optimal results:
    - posts (for constantly updated, fresh content; organized in categories)
    - Pages (for never changing = never updated 'static' portions of the site)
    - different post-types (you can create your own custom post types for specialty sites)

    Good, original content is good for SEO. Posts are pinged: update services get informed about your new content. Pages are not (although they came up with plugins for that, too).

    "Other wordpress site builders" use something they think it might be good for them. Which won't necessarily be good for you...

    Just use common sense after planning out your site on a paper. Trust me, you will thank me later if you don't skip these steps
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  • Profile picture of the author mlmguru2011
    Post would be a good idea,you can later feed it to your twitter as well as facebook.Even linkedin now!
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  • Profile picture of the author ernestrategos
    If you don't know yet exactly what you wish, I'd advise going for posts, Godspeed!
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    • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
      Originally Posted by ernestrategos View Post

      If you don't know yet exactly what you wish, I'd advise going for posts, Godspeed!
      I think that's wrong.

      If the OP or anybody else doesn't know exactly what they want - they should NOT start a website.
      :rolleyes:
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      • Profile picture of the author frenchsquared
        Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

        If the OP or anybody else doesn't know exactly what they want - they should NOT start a website.
        :rolleyes:
        LOL.... that's funny, but so true.
        I'm hoping they were asking more for seo reason.

        I'm starting to like you Istvan.
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  • Profile picture of the author shqipo
    I agree with Istvan. You need to figure out before you start building/writing how you want to organize your site. I'm guessing though, since you said articles, it would be better to post. I don't claim to be WP or SEO expert, but I don't see why page vs post would make a difference in regards to SE ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author frenchsquared
    if you use tags, posts will be better for seo, since it gets more pages into google.
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    • Profile picture of the author shqipo
      Originally Posted by frenchsquared View Post

      if you use tags, posts will be better for seo, since it gets more pages into google.
      I'm not arguing with you, just curious how do tags get more pages into google? I understand if there's a tag cloud available and one clicks on a tag, an archive page will be created showing all posts with that particular tag. However, isn't that a database query and the archive page is created on the fly, therefore not crawlable by spiders?
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      • Profile picture of the author frenchsquared
        Originally Posted by shqipo View Post

        I'm not arguing with you, just curious how do tags get more pages into google? I understand if there's a tag cloud available and one clicks on a tag, an archive page will be created showing all posts with that particular tag. However, isn't that a database query and the archive page is created on the fly, therefore not crawlable by spiders?
        Sorry but that is complete wrong. google "site:dealofday.com"
        you will see 1.5 million pages. That is because of me.
        Look at the url... they are mostly tag pages.

        You have to use meta data on those pages but I build the php script
        that makes the meta data for dealofday. I added 1.2 million pages
        buy converting deal of day to Wordpress.
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        • Profile picture of the author shqipo
          Originally Posted by frenchsquared View Post

          Sorry but that is complete wrong. google "site:dealofday.com"
          you will see 1.5 million pages. That is because of me.
          Look at the url... they are mostly tag pages.

          You have to use meta data on those pages but I build the php script
          that makes the meta data for dealofday. I added 1.2 million pages
          buy converting deal of day to Wordpress.
          Ah I see, I didn't know that - thank you. I'll look more into it.
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          • Profile picture of the author aduttonater
            You should check out some other peoples websites to get a general idea on the layout. Home page, Contact page, Services Page, The page that you want to describe the particular topic.
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  • Profile picture of the author MattSchoenherr
    Folks, it depends on what you'll be using the pages/posts for. If you are delivering static content that won't change much and doesn't beg for discussion, go for PAGES.

    If you are looking for visitor feedback/comments eventually and don't have as much attachment to how the posts are organized, make the content a POST.

    In WordPress, pages offer greater organizational structure, whereas posts tend to be more fluid and collect in one spot.

    It used to be WordPress was all posts with little support for pages, but being open-source, they listened to the community and eventually built in great support for pages, allowing web designers to vastly leverage this powerful content management system.

    Hope this helps!
    Matt
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  • Profile picture of the author kg2000
    Apparently, the OP is building a completely static site. He is building it in Wordpress instead of HTML for SEO purposes.

    Normally, static content would go on PAGES, but it is possible to build the content on POSTS and have it look exactly the same as PAGES. One of these approaches will perform better for SEO. This is subject of the OP.

    In this SEO blog (seobywebmechanix.com), the author states that he had MUCH better SEO results for static Posts than for static Pages. But the results were not conclusive, and there are also reports of Pages outperforming Posts over the long term as Google devalues older Posts.

    Additional responses to this thread would be welcomed.
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  • Profile picture of the author alixwijaya
    I used a Post, because Post is easy load for my blog,
    FYI, dont too much create the page in the blog, because it will impact on the blog will be heavy when accessed.
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  • Profile picture of the author ernestrategos
    Example if you have 3 - 500 word articles and you are building a site, do you do post or pages?...
    He can write his content inside a post perfectly, if his needs change he can iterate, or change as he goes.

    Good luck with your project.
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  • Profile picture of the author cassiegetty
    it depends on your site, if you want to update the content regularly, then i suggest you use post. goodluck on your website!
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  • Profile picture of the author Teriss
    Most themes have a blog page in the theme, where you update by articles and also have pages to serve static content like a business would have pages regarding their products. You can do both!
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  • Profile picture of the author MaxMonic
    You should take note of the difference between Post and Page.

    Post can have 'category' and 'tag' assigned to them while Page don't.

    Post is automatically ping by Wordpress everytime you update them, while Page don't.

    So I think Post is more SEO than Page.
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  • Profile picture of the author DonHuevos
    Go with posts. It's nice to change the permalink structure for further optimization. If you feel like you want static pages at a later time, simply create landing pages. To Istvan's point, you want to plan out your structure ahead of time. Ah, I like to update my content remotely, which you cannot do if you have a page-only structure.
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  • Profile picture of the author atomAnt
    OP asked a valid question not only for SEO, but also for creating effective affiliate, CPA and lead gen sites. Many fledgling IM'ers transitioning to WordPress from static sites are tripped up by this "gap" in the textbooks and tutorials for building authority sites.


    For most folks asking this question, what is being asked is:
    • How is such a site structured?
    • What are the specifics?
    • Is it a static home page and the rest posts?
    • How many tiers can you go before you start transitioning from pages to mostly posts?
    Or, is a page hierarchy best for sales/CPA etc...

    Since WP offers a platform for building static sites utilizing pages, why use posts if there is no great benefit from extending categorization compared with a good taxonomy and site coherence achieved through traditional (page) site structure?

    The perceived benefit of having posts immediately pinged may be reconsidered as well: Some techniques emphasize keeping more control over updating Google. A well positioned post to a few social bookmarks, networks and news sites can be pinged, allowing Google to find your new page on its own -

    This may be more effective than automatically alerting Google that more content has been added to your site, because now it has the 'buzz' of social media driving it. I prefer this method, so I am inclined to think that adding content to pages allows more flexibility than using posts for SEO. Either way, if alerting Google is a compelling reason for utilizing posts rather than pages, it may be worth considering if there is any real benefit lost by emphasizing pages instead.

    On the other hand, pages do not have categories, nor do they normally have tags. With a solid site structure the former may not matter much, while the latter represents a significant opportunity cost. A widget that facilitates adding tags to pages can be extremely beneficial both for SEO and overall usability. An efficiently navigable site using page hierarchies together with tags for lists of related content may offer the best of all worlds.

    Despite so many generic tutorials and training for building WP sites, there doesn't appear to be much available that answers these specific questions directed at WP site development for internet marketing.
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