WP fans: What do you prefer Pages or Post?

Geoff101

16 years ago

My money pages are "pages" while my small content sections are posts.

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~kev~

16 years ago

I use my wordpress post for information pages that contain a lot of amazon banners. Lets say I have a page called "backpacks." On that page I will discuss the different types of backpacks, with several amazon banners between the different types.

In other words, I use Wordpress pages as sales pages.

I have thought about using them for something like a wiki. Create a whole bunch of pages on different topics and interlink them.

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mitashseo

16 years ago

Pages normally defines individual category and post comes in single one. So as you are starting to use WP for micro niche marketing I would suggest you use posts rather pages. Because using pages may dilute your total content property. Or you can divide your niche market into two categories and post in each section.

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snapcontent

16 years ago

not sure the engines treat them any differently, TBH. But I could be wrong.

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GameVoid

16 years ago

Originally Posted by snapcontent

not sure the engines treat them any differently, TBH. But I could be wrong.

Yeah, I can't see any difference either really other than posts can be assigned to categories and pages cannot be (at least in the themes I have).

I use pages for things that I am going to update frequently, like site tables of content, sales pages, etc. Everything else goes into posts.

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Marksv

16 years ago

I use pages for my sales pages or my main website pages.

I then make a page labeled blog, and set my reading settings to display all blog posts on that page...

Fun stuff, wordpress has the best of both worlds!

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Fking

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Marksv

I use pages for my sales pages or my main website pages.

I then make a page labeled blog, and set my reading settings to display all blog posts on that page...

Fun stuff, wordpress has the best of both worlds!

i do the same

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Fking 16 years ago

Originally Posted by snapcontent

not sure the engines treat them any differently, TBH. But I could be wrong.

they don't, i'm asking more about usability and practices
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reapr

16 years ago

Posts for the RSS

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Brian Johnson 16 years ago

Originally Posted by reapr

Posts for the RSS

Ding ... Ding ... Ding ...

We have a winner, in my views anyway.

If I am going to be building a small niche site, with less than 15 documents (pages, posts) then I will always use
posts as posts are automatically added to the rss feed.

This helps content get indexed faster, I will also mention some plugins use content found on the rss feed, thus if your using pages you can not leverage these types of plugins (auto social poster is a great example).

If I am building a larger authority site I will then focus
on using pages for targeting keywords that are more competitive, linking in from various posts to my pages.

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fivestarexec

16 years ago

Fking,

I use pages for selling and posts to provide information. If the intention is for a micro site with just moderate content I stick with pages altogether leaving off the posts.

Hope this helps.

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Marian

16 years ago

I have lots of posts that would become less organized when using the content on pages. Though some smaller blogs use just pages

It really depends on what you're aiming to accomplish.

Marian

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justhandsome

16 years ago

If you use Posts then the keyword density will suffer ;hence in case you write articles etc as posts then it may work out other wise I feel it is difficult to make the page rank with so much different information ;the keyword density suffers on posts ...with pages you have the control....

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Fking

16 years ago

Originally Posted by justhandsome

If you use Posts then the keyword density will suffer ;hence in case you write articles etc as posts then it may work out other wise I feel it is difficult to make the page rank with so much different information ;the keyword density suffers on posts ...with pages you have the control....

you mean, because of comments or?

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Istvan Horvath

16 years ago

Originally Posted by justhandsome

If you use Posts then the keyword density will suffer ;hence in case you write articles etc as posts then it may work out other wise I feel it is difficult to make the page rank with so much different information ;the keyword density suffers on posts ...with pages you have the control....

Originally Posted by Fking

you mean, because of comments or?

I don't know what s/he means but that post is a complete garbled nonsense...

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justhandsome 16 years ago

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

I don't know what s/he means but that post is a complete garbled nonsense...

Sorry to be not so clear earlier ...what I meant was that Pages are some thing which you have more control as in the content which you create by keyword density I mean that if you have a page as a home page the content will not change ,you can control the keyword density ,whereas with posts in case the posts keep on increasing daily(amazon etc) ,the search engines may evaluate the keyword density differently.
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justhandsome 16 years ago

Originally Posted by Fking

you mean, because of comments or?

No usually people keep some affiliate products/advertisements as posts ...which in my thinking may dilute the keyword density..although no one can claim to be an expert ..just logical thinking with some experience...

there may be workarounds though ,I don't know or don't use any in wordpress
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Istvan Horvath

16 years ago

Originally Posted by johnkatz

Can you build micro niche with wordpress?

No, you cannot build a "micro niche" with WP. However, you can build a micro niche site

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Anonymous Affiliate

16 years ago

For regular content, posts. For static content, pages.

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Leslie B

16 years ago

I always use Posts for my articles. Even when I build micro niche sites with only a few pages I will try to use posts. The main reason is the RSS feed of course, although there are plugins that can put your pages in your feed (but why bother with adding to your blogs workload while you can keep it simple).

If you want your site to look like it consists of only pages, there are themes that take care of that. Only have the latest post on the homepage for example. But definitely go with posts.

Leslie

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Onur Ibrahim

16 years ago

Great advice!

I use both, but my money pages and articles are always posts.
That way I utilise both RSS and auto posting to other sites.
I have also set up feeds to pull content from my squidoo , e-zine articles and create posts.
This helps SEO also

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webdango

16 years ago

I use pages for standard content

Contact form
Privacy Policy
Terms and Conditions
About

And posts for the rest. This is because I can assign categories and tags to a post, then put cat and tag widgest in the side bar, giving me more keyword anchor links to the posts.

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dirtdigger

16 years ago

I started with html sites and have had a hard time mentally with using posts. After trying a couple of sites with posts and pages mixed I have switched to using just pages.

Two advantages I see with posts are RSS feeds and categories. You can have both with pages, sort of. For a category like structure I use the plug-in pageMash. It gives me pages and subpages and you can use the subpages just like posts in catagories and the url will display like this:

...domainname. com/ pagename/ subpagename...

I have not used the new WordPress menu but believe it will work the same way.

For RSS I use the RSS Includes Pages plug-in and all you pages will be included in the site RSS feed. I do not use category feeds so don't know what to do for these.

If you have pages that you don't want to include in the RSS feed there is a plug-in called Stealth Publish that you can use to remove unwanted pages like your privacy policy from the feed. You will not find this plug-in at the official WordPress site but will need to do a search for stealth publish to find it.

I am sure that I am missing some goodies by not using posts but I do like the simplicity of using just pages.

John

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MKWeb2 16 years ago

I use a mix. Like most have said here.... Posts for content and Pages for Sales. With a few exceptions.

I sell ad links to keywords in my content and even include some of my own products as links too. Plus you include the adwords or other PPC revenue streams and banners and a couple graphics for products or programs you are promoting personally and you can quickly fill up your posts with all sorts of monetization methods
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- jbsmith 16 years ago
  
  Depending on the template you use, some templates allow you to have a different design for your pages than your posts.
  
  For example, you can design your Page to be single column, different header, etc...important if you want to use it as say a sales page or squeeze page - then you can have your Posts as traditional blog format.
  
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deloriagod

16 years ago

Depends on what I'm doing. If I'm writing something that I want consistently seen then I'll go for pages. If I feel it's less important (or I'm writing an actual blog) then I'll for go posts.

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success_89

16 years ago

i tend to use posts more and if i really need some direct focus aimed there will be a page specifically for it... but love posts as well for the rss as well

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Istvan Horvath

16 years ago

Re: WP fans:

Well, fans are just that: fans who are joyously ignorant and have no idea how to use posts or Pages

On the other hand, experts know exactly there is no general rule (as it was stated several times above). It's not even worth asking...

Before thinking about posts vs. Pages one should sit down and draw a "map" of the future site and its content: how the content will be organized; what is the defining taxonomy of the content; what will be the overall structure of the site etc.

When you know all that - it is time to think what technical feature will serve your goal the best. Till then it's waste of time.

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Fking

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

It's not even worth asking...

Before thinking about posts vs. Pages one should sit down and draw a "map" of the future site and its content: how the content will be organized; what is the defining taxonomy of the content; what will be the overall structure of the site etc.

When you know all that - it is time to think what technical feature will serve your goal the best. Till then it's waste of time.

Well for an answer like that it kinda is worth asking :>
also for setting your mind right by looking from others people perspectives

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