Post or Pages?

Nobody else can answer that... except yourself.

When you know what you want to do with your site.

its deppend on you what you want a page or a post........

Confusion comes from every dick teaching about WordPress... after discovering it yesterday

Plus, self-appointed SEO-gurus think they understand WP. They don't...

So, if you really, really want to make a wise decision about your future WP site - you need to sit down, make a chart (on paper) of your planned content structure; the hierarchy of organizing it and stuff like that. When you are done, you will know 100% sure what kind of WP entries to use for optimal results:
- posts (for constantly updated, fresh content; organized in categories)
- Pages (for never changing = never updated 'static' portions of the site)
- different post-types (you can create your own custom post types for specialty sites)

Good, original content is good for SEO. Posts are pinged: update services get informed about your new content. Pages are not (although they came up with plugins for that, too).

"Other wordpress site builders" use something they think it might be good for them. Which won't necessarily be good for you...

Just use common sense after planning out your site on a paper. Trust me, you will thank me later if you don't skip these steps

Post would be a good idea,you can later feed it to your twitter as well as facebook.Even linkedin now!

If you don't know yet exactly what you wish, I'd advise going for posts, Godspeed!

I agree with Istvan. You need to figure out before you start building/writing how you want to organize your site. I'm guessing though, since you said articles, it would be better to post. I don't claim to be WP or SEO expert, but I don't see why page vs post would make a difference in regards to SE ranking.

if you use tags, posts will be better for seo, since it gets more pages into google.

Folks, it depends on what you'll be using the pages/posts for. If you are delivering static content that won't change much and doesn't beg for discussion, go for PAGES.

If you are looking for visitor feedback/comments eventually and don't have as much attachment to how the posts are organized, make the content a POST.

In WordPress, pages offer greater organizational structure, whereas posts tend to be more fluid and collect in one spot.

It used to be WordPress was all posts with little support for pages, but being open-source, they listened to the community and eventually built in great support for pages, allowing web designers to vastly leverage this powerful content management system.

Hope this helps!
Matt

Apparently, the OP is building a completely static site. He is building it in Wordpress instead of HTML for SEO purposes.

Normally, static content would go on PAGES, but it is possible to build the content on POSTS and have it look exactly the same as PAGES. One of these approaches will perform better for SEO. This is subject of the OP.

In this SEO blog (seobywebmechanix.com), the author states that he had MUCH better SEO results for static Posts than for static Pages. But the results were not conclusive, and there are also reports of Pages outperforming Posts over the long term as Google devalues older Posts.

Additional responses to this thread would be welcomed.

I used a Post, because Post is easy load for my blog,
FYI, dont too much create the page in the blog, because it will impact on the blog will be heavy when accessed.

He can write his content inside a post perfectly, if his needs change he can iterate, or change as he goes.

Good luck with your project.

it depends on your site, if you want to update the content regularly, then i suggest you use post. goodluck on your website!

Most themes have a blog page in the theme, where you update by articles and also have pages to serve static content like a business would have pages regarding their products. You can do both!

You should take note of the difference between Post and Page.

Post can have 'category' and 'tag' assigned to them while Page don't.

Post is automatically ping by Wordpress everytime you update them, while Page don't.

So I think Post is more SEO than Page.

Go with posts. It's nice to change the permalink structure for further optimization. If you feel like you want static pages at a later time, simply create landing pages. To Istvan's point, you want to plan out your structure ahead of time. Ah, I like to update my content remotely, which you cannot do if you have a page-only structure.

OP asked a valid question not only for SEO, but also for creating effective affiliate, CPA and lead gen sites. Many fledgling IM'ers transitioning to WordPress from static sites are tripped up by this "gap" in the textbooks and tutorials for building authority sites.


For most folks asking this question, what is being asked is:

• How is such a site structured?
• What are the specifics?
• Is it a static home page and the rest posts?
• How many tiers can you go before you start transitioning from pages to mostly posts?

Or, is a page hierarchy best for sales/CPA etc...

Since WP offers a platform for building static sites utilizing pages, why use posts if there is no great benefit from extending categorization compared with a good taxonomy and site coherence achieved through traditional (page) site structure?

The perceived benefit of having posts immediately pinged may be reconsidered as well: Some techniques emphasize keeping more control over updating Google. A well positioned post to a few social bookmarks, networks and news sites can be pinged, allowing Google to find your new page on its own -

This may be more effective than automatically alerting Google that more content has been added to your site, because now it has the 'buzz' of social media driving it. I prefer this method, so I am inclined to think that adding content to pages allows more flexibility than using posts for SEO. Either way, if alerting Google is a compelling reason for utilizing posts rather than pages, it may be worth considering if there is any real benefit lost by emphasizing pages instead.

On the other hand, pages do not have categories, nor do they normally have tags. With a solid site structure the former may not matter much, while the latter represents a significant opportunity cost. A widget that facilitates adding tags to pages can be extremely beneficial both for SEO and overall usability. An efficiently navigable site using page hierarchies together with tags for lists of related content may offer the best of all worlds.

Despite so many generic tutorials and training for building WP sites, there doesn't appear to be much available that answers these specific questions directed at WP site development for internet marketing.