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Authority Site Creation - Posts or Pages?

by ferriswannabe
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When trying to create an "authority-type" site on wordpress, what the difference between lots of posts or pages.

I know more pages with long-tail keyword titles would be best, but what should I do in this case.

The wordpress theme I am using does not allow me to have many page links or page titles on my homepage. They form a tab along the top of my page and one more would distort the page.

You can visit the page by clicking my signature, so you can understand what I am trying to say. Now I can create many pages, but there would not be clickable links from the homepage to them.

So I thought what if I created a resource page and just posted continuously to that page.


Some advice?
#authority #creation #pages #posts #site
  • Profile picture of the author dadamson
    If you are going down the authority site route, spend some time finding a theme you like and download the "All In One SEO Pack" plugin and set this up.

    Make sure you set up a categories widget on your sidebar and start writing POSTS into these catagories. This is the best way to go about authority sites.

    You could also do a similar thing for PAGES if you like but this usually requires a bit of theme hacking. Posts are automatically set up to get pinged when you submit them.

    Ensure you also set your permalinks up to show your keyword rather than "post-ID=23" or whatever it is.

    Let me know if you need any help setting this up.

    Cheers,
    Dave
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    • Profile picture of the author ferriswannabe
      Originally Posted by dadamson View Post

      If you are going down the authority site route, spend some time finding a theme you like and download the "All In One SEO Pack" plugin and set this up.

      Make sure you set up a categories widget on your sidebar and start writing POSTS into these catagories. This is the best way to go about authority sites.

      You could also do a similar thing for PAGES if you like but this usually requires a bit of theme hacking. Posts are automatically set up to get pinged when you submit them.

      Ensure you also set your permalinks up to show your keyword rather than "post-ID=23" or whatever it is.

      Let me know if you need any help setting this up.

      Cheers,
      Dave
      DAVE,

      Wow...How simple was that, I forgot about using the pages and categories widget. It works just fine on the sidebar. Thank you.
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      • Profile picture of the author dadamson
        Originally Posted by ferriswannabe View Post

        DAVE,

        Wow...How simple was that, I forgot about using the pages and categories widget. It works just fine on the sidebar. Thank you.
        No probs Ferris! There are many ways to handle this, but using the standard widgets work just fine for beginners and advanced webmasters alike.

        Posts are also naturally set up to have more SEO benefits in most themes so it is usually the best option and I do this frequently.
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    • Profile picture of the author ferriswannabe
      Abledragon and Sheryl Polomka

      Thank you both for your advice.
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  • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
    If your theme doesn't support drop down menus then you should really find one that does. That will enable you to group related pages together (using WordPress' parent/child structure) and thereby get more items into your menu.

    That said, I agree with Dave: write blog posts (not pages) and make sure they're properly tagged and categorised.

    Most importantly, make sure they're each properly optimised for the search engines because that way you can be attracting search traffic to old posts long after you write them - especially if you write lots of 'how to' articles.

    Cheers,

    Martin.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sheryl Polomka
    I would do both - I have one 'mini-authority' site and I do both pages and posts. I use pages for product reviews mostly and then posts for general articles relating to the niche.

    There is a plugin that you can install that will enable you to select pages that you don't want showing in your navigation bar - it will probably disable them from your page list in the sidebar too though.
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  • Profile picture of the author bhuff85
    Hey man, I like that theme that you're using! Is this a unique theme or something that you found?
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    Can someone tell me the exact name of the plugin you all talking about.
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