Blogs vs Static pages (to hang landing pages)

[PlexiMarshall]

My personal homesite is full of anecdotal automobile-related stories I've put there over the years. Now I'm thinking about taking this content, putting it onto a new domain with a relevant "automobile" name, and organizing it into some form or website that I can put affiliate landing pages into.

What would Google prefer?

A. a static homepage with short excerpts with "read more" links leading to the static articles (kinda what I have now)

B. organize it into a wordpress blog


(and then hang the affiliate landing pages off the root directory)


Heh?

 

[Sohan]

Organise it in to word press imo, keep it nice clean and updated.

Don't forget to 301 from your old site though.

 

[stroz]

could do a wordpress blog with a static homepage

 

[abhorrent]

There's tons of stuff you can do with WP to not make it look like a blog but still have the ease of updating it.

 

[PlexiMarshall]

Thanks. So, Google (and I guess Yahoo/Live) prefer a blog because in their "user experience" mindset it has updated content, so they rank it better? (as opposed to a quasi-static site)

 

[niche]

Not sure that the last comment on google prefering blogs to websites is accurate

 

[glowleaf]

Not sure that the last comment on google prefering blogs to websites is accurate

Of course you are not sure. That is why you need to close this forum, and run your own experiment to test it out.

 

[JamesH]

No, the search engines prefer Wordpress blogs because of the way they're structured and there 'on page' SEO. Updated content should be a given on any site, blog or not.

 

[stmadeveloper]

I tend to put a static site on the front end and a blog on the back end. My landing pages would be part of the "front end" -- but I'd still get the benefits of a blog both from a SEO view point and and quality score side. The front side acts as a static content that the SE's can lock onto so make sure your really going for the terms and all there.

Best of both worlds - and if you want you can even have snippets from the blog on the front end to make up the bulk of your content so you aren't writing twice.

 

[PlexiMarshall]

Thanks! Yea, I had also tried out a hybrid static-frontend to a wordpress blog-backend, and got it to work the way I wanted it. (I could tweak the static home page faster too)

Obviously the landing pages are static. Do you guys tend to put them in the root directory, or in subdirectories that have relevant-keyword directory names?

 

[the-cpa-guy]

There is nothing like 'preference' to a wordpress blog in comparison to a static website. A wordpress blog is by default has some google friendly traits like proper navigation , faster loading [use wp-cache plugin] , related pages , keyword rich [due to keywords in tag , archieve, and recent posts displaying] etc so often wordpress blog hosted on your own site is a complete website itself. I use white background , simple theme with 'featured' tag and without any sidebar[the contents of the sidbar goes to botom]. In some theme if you post the page in 'featured' category and it will display as static page in your wordpress blog.