I have a white hat site that i have set up with wordpress. The site looks nice and professional i am adding content every few days with the hope of it helping me move up the rankings in the search engines (along with other SEO).

My question is, does it make a difference to SEO if i add the new content to my wordpress site as a new page or a new post?

So far i have been adding the content as a new page.

It might seem like a silly question but does it make any difference if it is a new post or new page with regards SEO?

Adding many pages to your wordpress blogs would take up a lot of database space and resources, you should create posts when doing blogging and using pages only for static contents such as about, privacy policy, etc.

I'll also add that when you use post in wordpress and click the publish button, you ping all the sites in your ping list.

When you publish pages, you are not pinging.

Some people think it best to publish your articles as pages and then use the post feature to publish a description of the article with an anchor text link to the article page from the post.

You have to test though and see what works for you.

I will suggest you to update your site through posts and keep pages for landing page or other static pages like privacy policy, contact us, TOS, about us....

Lots of benefits for using posts... There is not much difference as SEO purpose but even little help can reduce your time in reaching your goal significantly...

I always use posts, so much easier to manage.

Thanks for the response guys.

I don't really want my site to look like a blogging site. I have pages such About us, TOS etc but i also have pages that will be static pages but are full of content that i want to remain static.

The purpose of the site is to sell advertising on it and at some point let another business owner add their own content etc.

pages are best for silo structured websites, good serp ranking when doing this.

Originally Posted by Sly.Niches

pages are best for silo structured websites, good serp ranking when doing this.

Ditto to this.

Unless you plan to get some of the few silo plugins out there that are for sale, you need to use pages in order to do Silo structure with Wordpress. They are really the only way it can be done manually. With the plugins however, you can then bring this functionality to the posts as well.

There are plugins that allow you to add tags to pages as well, which are also absent in pages vs. posts, and you want those.

All in all, from SEO perspective, if you are just putting up occasional articles, I would have to say for what you are doing the best benefit is in the pages.

Of course you are going to ping or build links to your pages afterwards.

Maybe all our answers just confused you more.

I alway thought 'page' received a bit more weight then 'post'.

Try using the Google XML Sitemaps plugin. It allows you to set different "weights" to different pages and posts for the search robots. Hope this helps you.

This is quite interesting. Im now confused on what route i should go: pages or posts

Cheers guys. I've decided to stick with pages for now as it works best for i need it for.