Pages or Blog posts?

[btiffin]

Hi,

I am currently building content for a customer's website. There are approximately 50 new content pages I am building about the business, products they serve, how-tos and tips and advice. The website is built on Wordpress so my question is would it be best to post this content as a different blog posts or as separate pages in Wordpress and link them up to a 'hub page' as mentioned on this post about How to rank (point 16)

Thanks for any advice.

[WesleySmits]

In my opinion blog posts build be better.

Blog posts are part of categories and then you can create a category such as 'How to's' and then place all blog posts under that category. This way you can create good looking and good scoring pages (the category pages).

If you use pages you will have to do it with direct links such as a big list of menu items. Nothing wrong with that but i would prefer to use posts.

[WorldText]

Depends on how you see the content.

If it's evergreen, and in no way time sensitive, I'd be tempted to place it as a page.  For example a how to relating to the specific product or service they supply is better not lost somewhere in a blog.  Blog entries are great for a Google search, but not so great for an existing customer going to the website and trying to find specific information.

For items that have a sell by date (service changes, new features and the like) and more peripheral content, blog is the way to go.

[Houses]

You could try a combo.

A page could be used to write about the sort of thing you will be covering in each topic. You could then finish with saying that you will be writing regular posts on the topic and then drop a link to the category (blog posts) on the subject which will give visitors access to al the latest on the subject.

Blog posts will be pushed down when new ones are written so a page accessible from your top navigation may be useful to give an overview if the subject is important enough to users.

Depends what fits with your site though.

Hope that makes sense...

[EGOL]

Lots of people would just slap them into blog posts.    That's the way to go if you are lazy or uncreative.

If you post them on pages and then build nice category pages to present them to your visitors in an interesting way, the engagement can be much higher than what you will get with the chronological presentation of the typical blog.

Of course, you can still build the presentation pages if you use the blog format, if you do it that way then nix the category pages.

[WesleySmits]

I agree with you up to a certain level. I don't think using blog posts is a lazy or uncreative way. People like to subscribe for to RSS feeds to keep up with the latest content. I don't know if Ben will keep posting after this set of 50 new pages/posts, but i think saying that it is lazy and uncreative to 'slam' in into blogpost is a bit rude.

[EGOL]

Thanks for the comment.

I picked those words because so many people think that blogs are magic bullets and an extremely effective way to serve content..

Yes, they are efficient, but I don't believe that they are the most effective.

Anyone, such as you, who is thinking about using pages instead of a blog has the potential to move up to a superior way of presenting his content..  That is using your brain and your creativity to make a presentation that can be much more engaging for the visitor and much more effective at accomplishing your goals.

Most people just slap up the blog and don't think about the possibilities.  You are thinking about them and that is a good thing.

Maybe you will decide to use the blog to publish but build great presentation pages by hand.  Or maybe you will build great article pages and promote them with quick messages on the blog.  There are many ways to do this well and RSS feeds can be used with both.

Good luck.

[btiffin]

Thanks everyone for you helpful comments.

I think the best of both worlds are worth exploring. I think maybe doing tips and advice on a blog style posts and  more "evergreen" content as pages. It won't matter eitherway as the Hubpages which I will create can link to either however as Wesley quite rightly pointed out there is a major benefit to blogs as these can be indexed on RSS