Static front page or new posts?

mikeaff2009

mikeaff2009

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I am working on some micro niche blogs with wordpress, right now I have it set up to where the home page is a static page with some general info on the topic, and then I have posts with other info. Is it better to do this, or have it where the front page shows the newest posts. I'm mainly asking from an SEO perspective, but I'm sure one way would also be better for presentation to visitors.
 


If you don't want the site to look like a blog, go with the static front page. Otherwise, I tend to just sticky the main post to the top and allow the rest to post normally.

I have started a recent round of autoblogs, though, with static front pages, so I am really only just now testing this out. As for SEO, I don't know if it would make too much difference in my strategy because I've previously used the sticky post method with a keyworded post on an exact match domain. I'm just doing it now to make the sites look a little "nicer" in the event of a manual review.
 
mikeaff2009 said:
I am working on some micro niche blogs with wordpress, right now I have it set up to where the home page is a static page with some general info on the topic, and then I have posts with other info. Is it better to do this, or have it where the front page shows the newest posts. I'm mainly asking from an SEO perspective, but I'm sure one way would also be better for presentation to visitors.
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From the SEO perspective, it's not about static or dynamic, it's about
relevancy to the query term and links. In some cases, the homepage
doesn't even need to rank, just pass link juice to the sub pages which are
optimized heavily for longtails. That's how I made barrels of cash with MFA's
before my Adsense got canceled. lol

Bompa
 
mikeaff2009 said:
I am working on some micro niche blogs with wordpress, right now I have it set up to where the home page is a static page with some general info on the topic, and then I have posts with other info. Is it better to do this, or have it where the front page shows the newest posts. I'm mainly asking from an SEO perspective, but I'm sure one way would also be better for presentation to visitors.
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I tend to have a static front page, which links to any new posts with custom excerpts. This reduces dupe content and ensures all your posts get even link juice.
 
thanks for the ideas, I think I might try stickying a welcome message and then let the others post normally on the one I am working on now, and then try some of those other techniques on future sites
 
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