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That is a question that any blogger has asked himself at some point : Do I need to put it in a page or in a post? what’s the difference? I have heard a WordPress specialist recently say “it doesn’t really matter”, well it depends for who. Because for the visitor of your blog it does matter<\/em>, and for Google too.<\/p>\n

Let’s take a look at the differences between a page and a post.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A page in WordPress<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A page is meant for static content<\/strong> such as an about page, a contact page, your privacy policy, your terms and conditions, even an article that tells a story about your website. Google looks for pages such as about, privacy policy and terms and conditions to determine how serious is that website.<\/p>\n

An advantage of using pages is that you can create different templates for your pages so they do not have to look all the same. You can also password protect a page if you feel the need to.<\/p>\n

A post in WordPress<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A post is meant to live inside the blog, as part of a group of blog posts. You can see it as time-stamped information that is presented in reverse chronological order.<\/p>\n

You can group your posts into categories<\/a> so that your visitors will be able to see all posts related to a particular topic on what’s called a category page<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You can also add tags<\/a> to your posts, tags are like keywords, they are more precise and granular than categories. Just like categories, visitors can see posts related to a particular tag.<\/p>\n

A great feature of WordPress is that you can drip your posts<\/strong>. Thanks to the scheduler, you can write 10 blog posts at a time but schedule to publish them one per day for example.<\/p>\n

Posts also appear in your archives, recent posts section, blog post listings and very importantly in the search results (when your pages don’t).<\/p>\n

You’re now all prepared to decide what needs to go on a page and what needs to be on a post. If you have any questions, leave us a comment and we’ll be happy to help!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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