WordPress Posts vs Pages

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Hello warriors,

I was wondering, many people say that important content should be on a page, and "chit chat" should be a post.

Why is that so? I know commenting can influence SEO, but if you disable the comments what is the difference between the two?

Why I ask this is because posts go into categories it is eaier to make a wordpress blog more user friendly. I don't want all of my content to be on pages!
#search engine optimization #pages #posts #wordpress
  • Posts just go in reverse chronilogical order while pages are laid out however you arrange them (hierarchy etc).

    I think important content refers to the main parts of your blog (Home, Contact, About us, Privacy Policy) while posts are the info that you want to fill your blog with that relates to your theme/niche.

    It's just easier to categorize posts.
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    • I know that, but many marketers say important articles should be a page because it is better for SEO... WHY???
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  • Have always seen posts as fresh content and pages as more static in WP.
    And searchengines loves blogs for fresh content. They crave it.
  • an interesting discussion, i will test this out by building some back links to a post and some to a page to see if htere is any difference
  • While I've also seen nothing definitive on this, posts are actually likely to be more SEO effective than pages.

    This is because, if you're using Categories and Tags effectively, posts will be more heavily cross linked than pages. You can improve that even further by adding a Related Posts plugin.

    However, pages will appear in your menu bar so if you have some information or an article that you want to keep in front of people a page is a way of doing that.

    For example, I have a page called Tools and Resources and another called Top Articles. The first gives brief reviews on products I'm promoting and the second contains links to popular or important posts that I think people may be interested in, even though some were written quite a while ago.

    But certainly on my blog it's posts that figure in the search engines and draw the visitors - not pages.

    Cheers,

    Martin.
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    • using categories/archives/tags on posts is BAD for SEO

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  • The comment makes it possible for you to get higher traffic. I have seen some blogs that off their comment portion but i dont think there is any advantage in doing that.
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    • comments is good because it's an added feature to help add content on the page, and it keeps the freshness of the post alive in the SERPs
  • Posts are for fresh content that can be updated 1 to unlimited times per day, week, or month. The search engine loves it, especially if your content is updated frequently. However, pages are static they rarely change unless you are adding something to your "about me" page or perhaps "contact us" page. Comments are always good to have on a blog. They make the blog more interactive and personable.

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