Does # of pages indexed by search engine matter? If so aren't CMS sites handicapped? Usually a cms has about 7-10 pages at most. Am I understanding indexing correctly? Wouldn't blogs have a natural advantage do to the amount of new content? If true then, would a fix to the CMS site be to included a blog? Should you just add a subdomain? How would you implement into the site to get the most juice?
i think the more pages a site has the more weight it is given in google as it's probably seen as a more robust resource. i dont, however, understand what a CMS would have to do with it...
I didn't ask that correctly. Usually a business site has limited number of pages for example a bakery website might list description, location, contact, recipes so it is capped at 4 pages. It will likely never get high SERP because of the page count correct? So would a blog be a fix for that? If so is there an recommended way going about this for SEO? must be in root directory etc...?
A website doesn't need many pages to rank well. A large number of pages helps establish a website's theme and gets the website more internal links. It isn't a crucial factor for high rankings though. A smaller website would just rely on backlinks more. As for CMS...most CMS websites actually have a high number of pages otherwise they wouldn't need a CMS. The websites that only have 4 pages are more often just standard html pages without any software to automate the content.
i disagree. in my experience, those sites with more pages rank better. for example a clothing site with LOADS of products will rank higher than a site with few products because google thinks it is a more worthy source. that's on ambiguous keywords of course
Consider the niche also. If the web site, a bakery, with four pages online, is competing with other bakeries online, who have similar-sized web sites, then, they can definitely compete. I also believe it to be much easier for smaller web sites to rank well based on optimizing them for a particular geographic area. At the same time, even smaller sites can compete in a bigger market, where large sites reign supreme. I will try to find some examples to back this up.
I never said that lots of pages doesn't help. It just isn't always a case of the bigger website gets the better rankings. There are plenty of smaller websites who beat large websites based on other factors such as backlinks. The companies that have the resources to make a large website usually also have the resources to build sufficient links too. So the two often go hand in hand, but there can be large websites with lousy rankings and small websites with great rankings.