I recently changed my blog homepage from a dynamic recent post page to a static landing page, (see my original DP thread: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1996513) original homepage: http://www.consultingcase101.com/blog/ current static homepage: http://www.consultingcase101.com/ Ever since the change from dynamic landing page to static, my site's google search queries spiked and increased significantly: On average, search queries as identified by google webmaster tools increase 50% compared to before. The verdict: static page is much better than dynamic page for SEO purpose!
BS. Both pages you show have different content. The SAME content served as proper HTML will produce the SAME results and it is IMPOSSIBLE to do otherwise! Google has no way of knowing how you created the content if you serve it as HTML. If you create the page using javascript, that's a different story.
It doesn't matter what you say or what you did. Google only cares about what HTML it gets served, NOT how you generated the page!
I dont think there is much difference, the blogs are dynamic but they gets indexed in few minutes. For me it takes more time to index static html websites.
awesome share man , i think this is a vital info .. since you just changed the page to static and no change in seo ..... great info ...
Speed is an important factor. Since a static page is quicker than a dynamic page it should have some sort of effect. How much depend probably on how slow your dynamic page is.
Google has said the faster your website loading, the higher chances your website to be on serps . i think static page is better than dynamic page.
he's changing the content at a fixed url (ie the blog landing page) - you can do this as a static OR dynamic page. So the thread is misnamed. Dynamic content is much easier to deal with and update compared to static, most people do dynamic nowadays. There's no way to tell them apart.
Absolutely false though a poorly coded dynamic page can be slower, it isn't necessarily. However, @theentry pointed out he probably means pages that change content and not pages that are generated on the fly as I had thought.
Hmm.. if I had to guess, I'd say the boost in organic traffic happened because a) the static page you're now using features enhanced internal linking and b) content in static page has better keyword optimization.
A well coded dynamic page with a fast load speed should be indexed exactly the same as a static page I would have though.
The only real difference in ranking would be determined mainly because of the page size ( in KB ) and page loading times, Dynamic database driven websites will always be slightly slower than Static html and thus can be given a slight advantage. With your blog page it will also contain alot of crap that SE's find it harder to read like Java etc. With your HTML page there will be less crap and more clean code again resulting in better results. However dont get excited to quickly , At the moment you have no real content on your new homepage so it wouldnt surprise me that you slowly start to drop off again pretty soon, Unless of course you on and off page SEO is pretty shit hot. My 2 cents
What? Speed is not that big factor, unless your service provider is timing out all the time etc. If I understand you correctly, you moved from ./blog/ to maindir, then the reason for more traffic is that your homepage obviously gets more pagerank, therefor more traffic. Google bot doesn't even understand how the page is served... it always reads just html.
Correct Speed isnt a "Big" factor , but it is a factor and could be the difference between a couple of places up or down in serps. You have to remember there is huge percentage differences in the amount of traffic that hits between 1st place and 5th place. The bot does only read HTML correct also but the amount of data, white space and crap is considerably more in things like Joomla , wordpress and Literally any other Popular CMS around today than a cleanly coded HTML page.