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Pages or Posts??? Which Ranks Better?

by smartsites
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Hi,

I'm building some small niche sites and I'm wondering if it matters if I do say 5 pages of content or 5 posts? What have you guys found works better or does it matter?

Thanks,

Craig
#pages #posts #ranks
  • Profile picture of the author Imran Naseem
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    I personally think posts.

    If you use Wordpress and install the right plug ins I find posts rank higher.
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  • Profile picture of the author MisterMunch
    I think you should check out Mike Liebner new guide "Pages NOT Posts".

    I think the best ting is to have 5 pages, and then a blog that posts related blogposts and randomly link to the different pages when relevant.

    I have not tested this method but it sounds very workable
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  • Profile picture of the author tecHead
    ...there's really not enough of a significant difference between the two for the SE bots to make that distinction.

    Its the content and rate of update that the bots factor into the algorithm when reporting back to the indexing engine.

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  • Profile picture of the author yourhotkitty
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    • Profile picture of the author tecHead
      Originally Posted by yourhotkitty View Post

      So if its the rate of update, wouldn't a forum or blog provide more juice for that back link then a site would, that once is built it might not get update or changes?
      Maybe, if it were that simple. Yet, there are other variables that factor in like...

      - on page SEO
      - linking neighborhoods
      - quality of content
      - relevance of anchor text
      - ...etc...

      But, to utilize Occam's Razor... blogs could be considered to provide more "juice"; as this is why blog commenting is one of the things that is touted as a must for better ranking...

      But again... its not that simple...
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  • Profile picture of the author smartsites
    So if you have 5 pages then updating would you keep adding new pages or just add posts after you have had the pages?
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  • Profile picture of the author tecHead
    ... Jack Humphrey; a master blogger; is a good friend of mine and says that Pages are best used for "sticky" content and Posts are best used for 'updates' to the overall theme of the blog...

    He gets several thousand hits per month from several thousand keywords; so I tend to put weight on what he says, regarding blogging in general.

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  • Profile picture of the author Ldimilo
    Neither.....and both....it depends...
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  • Profile picture of the author evanlambda
    It really comes down to content relevance over stuff like this. WP plugins like sitemap are the ones that tell Google what to consider more important, and these can be easily edited.
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  • Profile picture of the author Microsys
    I really can't imagine it makes a different. But I would also vote for creating a mini CMS site in Wordpress. I.e. use pages and then configure it for a blog "on the side". That way your website has it's important content on pages like regular websites have... And then if you feel for it, you can run a blog as well. I use Wordpress for this on some niche sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author davidmeeonline
      Don't posts have their own permalink, which if backlinked to would become the same as a page to all intents and purposes?
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  • Profile picture of the author marieluy143
    its depends on the uniqueness of the content....
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    • Profile picture of the author echovme
      Based upon on the content of the web pages & post. We will get PR.

      Then we need to do other stuff like on page & off page factor.
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