Wordpress Indexing - 'Page' vs 'Post'

stylesb

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Nov 7, 2008

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• Feb 11, 2009

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A little SEO question I kind of just stumbled across in creating an autoblog. I found 10 solid articles that I am spinning and making featured.

For indexing reasons and pagerank flow, would it be more beneficial to make these articles as 'posts' or create individual 'pages' and just place the article there. I mean essentially when you create a 'post' you are creating a page too, but does/can Big G tell a difference and if so, which does it favor?

 

Erik

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Dec 14, 2008

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• Feb 11, 2009

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This is no difference in G's eyes. As far as the difference within wordpress, Pages live outside of the blog itself, and depending on the theme you use, you can change a few things easily like not showing a sidebar on them, etc.

 

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Alexanderia0007

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Jan 7, 2009

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You can generate a sitemap of your entire website, this will include categories, pages etc. Then ping your sitemap using google sitemap tool and it will basicly get google to crawl through the entire sitemap, marking all the URL's.

 

simmo

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Jul 14, 2008

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One thing to bear in mind with pages is that they won't be included in your blog's RSS feed which may be an issue if you plan on syndicating your content to other sites.

 

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RevolWerx

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Oct 28, 2008

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Use posts you get some better publishing benefits when using categories, tags, plug-ins and such.

 

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qulman

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Jan 15, 2009

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• Feb 16, 2009

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I read it from yoast.c0m, page is better than post for SEO, because post has a comment. that's what I get, u can see his blog, it's awesome for wordpress SEO user...

 

saturday1

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Dec 28, 2008

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• Feb 16, 2009

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Get Pr for other category links so your post will be indexed soon

 

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freller

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• Feb 16, 2009

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The only real differences are:-

1) Pages are included in the top menu bar if you use one (unless you've blocked specific page IDs). That's very good for SEO as it's a permanent sitewide link.

2) Pages are one block of content whereas posts generally share the screen with one or two others (or more) on the frontpage, although they always link through to single posts from the title.

3) Posts can include comments, which the SEs like as it's incrementally new content.