Word Press Page vs Post

[bronxpad]

Hello, I have a site that is dedicated to real estate. I designed it in dreamweaver. I also attached a blog to it with wordpress. Its self hosted. My question is what is the best way to increase my search rankings with wordpress?

Page vs Post?

Any tips?

[Mark_Jay_Apsey_Jr.]

Joel-  Good question....There is no simple page or post answer...depends on what you do.... The only real quantitative difference between them is that posts are built to be social media instruments and pages are built to be static.

This guys does a long example of differences between posts versus pages in seo and comes to no real conclusion...but this section is interesting and I have used it in our seo wordpress playbook I created........read below:

Author is HESHAM ZEBIDA

• WordPress posts and pages both pings other sites when they created or updated (both should be indexed well).
• Both has same SEO options.
• Pages do not cycle through by date, but this doesn’t mean it has no publishing date. (I wonder how Google will deal with it regarding microdata)
• Pages are not included in RSS feed, but this plugin can include Wordpress pages in RSS feed.
• Pages has nothing to do with the blog, it’s not hanged to anything (only sub pages) It’s an awesome flying piece of content!
• Use pages to for content you want people to see every time they visit your blog.

Here is the link to the whole article if you want to spend the time....

http://www.famousbloggers.net/posts-vs-pages.html

Bottomline is if you are building content to use RSS feed and social media-make it a blog. if you are building content to be static, build a page.

One more thing, there are some wordpress themes that it is better to use a blog versus a post because they build in category or taxonomy functionality into one r the other that can provide value.

Hope this helps.

Mark

[evolvingSEO]

Hi Joel

Pages or Posts do not affect search rankings, but as Mark very well points out they differ in functionality.

• PAGES are for static (not tied to a date) content. Pages are like what you'd get on a regular 'ol website.
• POSTS are for dated content, like an ongoing blog or new items. Posts are what you'd typically think of as a blog.

This article I did on WordPress for the Moz blog might help you further.

-Dan