SEO for website or Blog - what is more beneficial?

Dear friends,

Please advise what is the easiest part to optimize website or Blog? The reason I am asking this questions lays in my desire to improve my website which is optimized not so bad having ranking with a few keywords on fist page of Google and having pr=3. Recently I have added my blog to this website to improve the visibility of my website. Though the traffic has increased a bit I feel that still lots of things can be done to improve my site. Some SEO specialists think to optimize Blog is easier than website plus we have more professional template. From the other point of you I have already established traffic with my not so-well attracted perhaps template but optimized website. What is your suggestion how to go forward?

Thank you in advance everyone.

Warmly,

Michael.

 

Good SEO works just as good for a static xhtml/css website as it does a php blog like WordPress

I personally like to have a static xhtml/css index and other pages b4 leading to a blog, but then that's just me

See www.mattcutts.com and decide your own preference would be my advice

 

Keep on naturally increasing the social networking links, better same or close niche ...
(For reference purpose)

 

Hi friends,

Thank you so much for answering me so promptly. I will definitely read that article and meantime I do participate in Do follow commentaries and Twitter but without great success. Thanks again for your good will.

With warm wishes,

Michael.

 

Each can be SEO'd equally - traditional web sites and blogs. I think adding a blog to a traditional web site is a great way to help the site overall from an SEO perspective.

Blogs are a great way to build a community to get people coming back over and over... and a great way of adding fresh content to your site by constantly increasing the number of pages on your site through posts... and attracting deep links to posts which will help the site increase its domain authority... and going after lots of longtail keyword phrases with posts... etc.

 

Great that you are thankful fella, but that link I included was for Matt Cutts site, Matt Cutts being the engineer mainly behind the Google safe search feature and not an article - maybe you need to learn a few things Sir, so I will hope you do so and not rip in to you and assume you will you read some and learn & will get back to this with exclamations of your amazement on what you have learned and come across ????

 

Thank you guys, for your good will and I'll get back here after I read that article. SO surprised to have so various opinions on that question.

Warm wishes,

Michael.

 

Hi friends,

I did look at MAtt's site but in reality I could not find the required question. Please lead me how I can find a blog regarding my question on matt's site.

Thanks,

Michael.

 

The question was answered in as much as Matt uses WordPress but also has a html page - hence Matt can put whatever he wants there and add pages if he wanted, without it affecting his WordPress blog at all.

He uses a WordPress blog and he is a Google engineer who was behind the safe search feature.

Surely this should make the answer to your question self explanatory without having to read an article about it?

Answers above from both myself and Canonical both tell you the same, that there is no answer that splits up a Blog from ordinary pages as one being better than the other as there is no answer other than neither as both are equally as good as the other.

All that matters is that you provide the best match to a search query and it matters not what format you present that answer with, as long as it is accessible text content that best fits what has been searched for.

 

I appreciate so greatly for your comprehensive answer. As I understood both SEO are equally working well when the user searches for the right keyword. If this is the case perhaps at the end to have website as Word Press Blog have the advantage of more professional template though again the question is how to do SEO for Blogs to achieve at least the same outcome as I have for my website. Thank you again for your great thoughts. They are helping in a way as they are unfolded in my learning mind.

With appreciation.
Michael.

 

Get your permalinks right and use the best addons when it comes to WordPress

There is no reason why you cannot have a xhtml/css page the same as your WordPress

For example see the fusion templates here > http://digitalnature.ro/projects/fusion/

If you have achieved good results with xhtml/css pages there is absolutley no reason whatsoever you cannot do the same with WordPress with a little research

Remember my fav old adage

Content is King and Presentation is Contents Queen

You have with Fusion > http://digitalnature.ro/projects/fusion/ an example of how both can be combined!

 

Hi Revelations-Decoder,

It was really encouraging to read your last post and to learn that with good content everything is possible. WHat is left - to dig deeper and learn more about that infinite ocean of human ideas! Thank you for being patient with my unprofessional attitude.

So warmly,

Michael.

 

There are a number of factors to consider when deciding if it is easier to SEO a site or a blog.

1. Domain Age: Has the site or blog been around longer? If one of the two are relatively new, it will take some time to build domain trust. Sounds like your site has been around longer.

2. CMS: If you are using a CMS for your website, it may be relatively easy to add pages to the site.

3. Links: How many inbound links do you have into your site? blog? If your site or blog has thousands of authoritative links than it may be easier to SEO that first.

Overall, I find that a blog is much easier to SEO, because you can build content and links organically. Just by providing valuable content you can gain user generated content and highly relevant links. Typically a wordpress blog gets crawled a lot faster by Google, because they usually updated on a more frequent basis, compared to a static website.

 

Please clarify - though to seo blog is easier but if I've got a good age website and with some established links should I still consider to redesign my website as WP blog? And also a question if some pages will be the same in my blog as in my website are they considered as a duplicated content?

Thank you kindly.
Michael.

 

Sorry for not clarifying. I guess I need a little more background on your site. How long has your website been around? how many inbound links do you currently have? what industry and location are you trying to rank in?

Yes technically that would be duplicate content, however as long as you dont duplicate an entire site, its going to be ok to have a few pages that are the same.

 

My site is around 3 years and have 272 backlinks. It is in industry of metaphysical,spiritual or christian healing and I target the users around the world. With my domain it works better for USA though I would like to have perhaps more inquiries in Australia as well. Thank you kindly for your interest in developing rightly my website. I really appreciate your good will.

 

I have brand new (3 month old) domains/sites with masses of page 1 SERPS with no backlinks and it is a simple xhtml/css site so I beg to differ stayonsearch

 

I am not saying that you can't have page 1 rankings with a newer domain. It is just harder.

I assume the domains that are ranking on the 1st page have minimal competition or are longer tail keywords?

 

Increasing the rank or importance of your blog creates a better natural link to your main website.

 

2 or 3 word keyword searches in the main stayonsearch.

Admittedly not greatly serached, but then if only 1 person ever searched for each one and converted that would be too many LOL

Examples

(Chaneg 0's for o's btw)

Knightsbridge SE0 (Pick any other LOndon Borough and match with SE0)
Hire London SE0
Commission London SE0

Hire L0ndon search engine 0ptimiser
C0mmission London search engine 0ptimiser

Bear in mind optimiser flags up as a typo, as the US is Optimizer whereas the UK is optimiser.

Also bear in mind results data for searches are on Google.com and so will show up as nill (though I know that's not true as I already got a £1500 plus client from a "Harrow SE0" search) and Google alerts also tells me the nill searches data is skewiff and based I suspect on Google.com searches only.

I have done the same for more competitive search terms to though!


Now admittedly the examples above are not very competitive and as I said will show up as not searched (I have explained that - the data is wrong as for example optimiser is UK English and we use Google.co.uk) but nevertheless they are targeted to specific searches that - well you might call long tail/string but they are far more likely to convert

You also have to bear in mind in this case it is definatelt qulaity rather than quantity of searches that is what really counts

I am well aware if you are trying to sell "Michael Jackson Bad Album" or Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code Book/DVD" you need to focus more on quantity rather than quality search terms