Pages or Posts for SEO (& WP Silo plugin)
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Pages or Posts for SEO (& WP Silo plugin)
I understand that there is a school of thought that suggests that a pages structure has more SEO value than structuring around posts. The idea is that posts get diluted over time, both with comments and age, while (no comment) pages retain SEO value... So it recommends setting up a pyramid theme structure with pillar articles on pages, not posts, and then using posts mainly to link to these and pass on juice, but not to try to rank for individual posts.
The counter-argument to this theory, I understand, is that structuring by pages only works effectively for small sites, because pages are stored in chronological order (is this true?), not relevance, and larger sites with a lot of content usually fair better with a silo structure. So in this case it would be better to use something like WP Silo, which ensures that when your site is crawled, your posts are crawled in order of relevance, not the order you posted in.
So my Q is:
For my site (hopefully an "authority site" with a lot of content) would pages, not posts, work better?
Would Dan Raine's WP Silo plugin work OK in conjunction with a page structure? If I'm not mistaken the WP Silo plugin, in posts, adds a "no follow" to all other links other than the one to the next relevant post. So I'm assuming this would negate what I'm trying to do in using the posts to link to the major "pillar article" (page) of same topic? Or can you still have posts link to pages with WP Silo?
How about the best of both worlds, ie can WP Silo be set up to silo pages as well as posts (And have the posts link to certain related pages?)
I understand that there is a school of thought that suggests that a pages structure has more SEO value than structuring around posts. The idea is that posts get diluted over time, both with comments and age, while (no comment) pages retain SEO value... So it recommends setting up a pyramid theme structure with pillar articles on pages, not posts, and then using posts mainly to link to these and pass on juice, but not to try to rank for individual posts.
The counter-argument to this theory, I understand, is that structuring by pages only works effectively for small sites, because pages are stored in chronological order (is this true?), not relevance, and larger sites with a lot of content usually fair better with a silo structure. So in this case it would be better to use something like WP Silo, which ensures that when your site is crawled, your posts are crawled in order of relevance, not the order you posted in.
So my Q is:
For my site (hopefully an "authority site" with a lot of content) would pages, not posts, work better?
Would Dan Raine's WP Silo plugin work OK in conjunction with a page structure? If I'm not mistaken the WP Silo plugin, in posts, adds a "no follow" to all other links other than the one to the next relevant post. So I'm assuming this would negate what I'm trying to do in using the posts to link to the major "pillar article" (page) of same topic? Or can you still have posts link to pages with WP Silo?
How about the best of both worlds, ie can WP Silo be set up to silo pages as well as posts (And have the posts link to certain related pages?)
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