Do pages carry more weight than posts? (wordpress)

[Eldarion]

One person told me that one of the reasons I'm not ranking as highly as I could be might be because I don't have that many specific pages for things on my website.

When I make a page in wordpress though I can't use tags on it which seems like kind of a disadvantage because I used to get a lot of traffic through tags before the early February google slap. But lets say I may a post linking to my page which has the main content on it, no duplicate text. Do you think that's better or makes a website seem like it have more weight for google? :bowdown:

 

[omgyams]

Pages and posts are technically the same thing, usually with slightly different data. For instance posts usually have a date and author name. Though this is completely customizable through your theme.

The big difference is moreso how your theme is set up and the IA of your site.

For instance if you have a particular page in your main nav that has a handful of internal links pointing to it from other pages it'll probably rank well versus the same content that is on a post that is 2-3 hops away from from your main page without the degree of internal links.

Comments are another factor as well

 

[WickedWeasel]

Pages and posts are technically the same thing, usually with slightly different data. For instance posts usually have a date and author name. Though this is completely customizable through your theme.

The big difference is moreso how your theme is set up and the IA of your site.

For instance if you have a particular page in your main nav that has a handful of internal links pointing to it from other pages it'll probably rank well versus the same content that is on a post that is 2-3 hops away from from your main page without the degree of internal links.

Comments are another factor as well

Thanks for the information. I keep on wondering what's the answer on that question as well. I always believe that its not the same thing but got clarified.

 

[Mightier]

Thanks for the information. I keep on wondering what's the answer on that question as well. I always believe that its not the same thing but got clarified.

You should remember that Google only "sees" the raw html that wordpress spits out. It can make guesses about what built the site based on the code structure, but it doesn't really know whether a page on your site is a page or post within Wordpress. The differences between those two types of generated documents are so tiny (and variable depending on the theme and configuration), that I would find it highly unlikely that Google could or would care about whether a page on your site is really a page or a post.

Like the poster above said, it has a lot more to do with how you link the whole thing together.

 

[Eldarion]

Well I'm using the 2010 theme for this site so it can get a bit cluttered sometimes for one thing. But really to be honest creating pages for these posts and then linking to them is more of a pain in the ass. If you're saying that me simply linking to them in my own post gives them a bit more oompha it might be worth it.

 

[danny]

Pages just get way more internal juice because of the information architecture. It'd be ridiculous to make a page for every post though. What you can do is take select posts you want to give lots of juice to and link to them from a sidebar widget. That has the same effect.