SEO: Wordpress Pages or Wordpress Posts?

Question

When it comes to getting your articles into the search engines, would it be better to go with posts or pages?

For example if your article is "How to fix a lawnmower" under a category of "How to Fix" then should you articles all have their own pages or would posts be a better method?

Thanks.

Answer 1

There are very key differences between posts and pages in your WordPress blog.



Posts



Posts are entries listed in reverse chronological order on the blog home page or on the posts page if you have set one in Settings → Reading. If you have created any sticky posts, those will appear before the other posts. Posts can be found in the Archives, Categories, Recent Posts, and other widgets. Posts are also displayed in the RSS feed of the blog. You can control how many posts are displayed at a time in the Reading Settings. The URL for a post includes the date the post was published like this: http://blogname.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/post-title/



Pages



Pages are static and are not listed by date. Pages do not use tags or categories. An About page is the classic example. Pages can be displayed in the sidebar using the Pages widget, and some themes display pages in tabs at the top of the blog. If you have 50 pages and you use the Pages widget, then all pages will be listed all the time. The URL for a page looks like this: http://blogname.wordpress.com/page-title/

Answer 2

Choosing page or post only effects your site structure, it has nothing to do with SEO. It's the quality of the post or page that maters.

Answer 3

It doesn't matter, but if you want to use pages for the most part, then don't use wordpress.