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Add WP Blog Software vs. Site Pages
JohnnyMark1
Published on February 11, 2013
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I was wondering if anyone can answer a question for me. I’ve got a website that I’ve spent a lot of time on, as far as the design and content, affiliate links, and a minimum of thirty well-written articles on external sites with links pointing back to the site. The site was built with Dreamweaver, and not with Wordpress, so it does not currently have blog capability.
Recently, a very generous WA member took a look at the site and offered suggestions as to how I might improve it. I am extremely grateful for her time and effort in helping me see a path forward with both my layout, and the marketing strategy, and I intend on making many changes based on her thoughts.
When I initially developed the site, I thought that when I was ready to add new content to the site, I would typically add it as one-page articles, adding a single webpage per article to the site. Each article-webpage would be optimized for a single keyword phrase, and the meta title and description tags would reflect that. Perhaps these article-pages would be organized within an article section of the site. Each article-page would have the full navigational menu as any other page, providing links to the rest of the site and the Amazon Affiliate links sprinkled throughout it.
Even though I hadn’t created my site with Wordpress, I now know that I can add the WP blog software to the site. Instructions I’ve found look fairly straight forward. My question is whether it’s better to add this Wordpress blog software to the site, or organize on-site content as I had originally planned?
I do pay attention to setting up meta title and description tags in the head sections of every page, and optimize the content for that. I also have added Google Analytics code to every page, and have created and submitted an xml sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools, so I don’t think that I’m missing out on any benefits to having WP in that respect.
The one main benefit that I can see to having a website built with Wordpress is having a Ping plugin, such as cbnet Ping Optimizer, or WordPress Ping Optimizer, so as to auto-ping the long list of ping sites that many recommend, rather than having to manually ping each one.
At this point, I’m NOT going to rebuild the site in WP, that’s not the point of this post. I’m wondering if anyone has any thoughts and insights around the pros and cons of adding blog software to the non-WP site versus just adding pages to the site. If anyone does, I’d surely appreciate some feedback.
Thank You! -John
Recently, a very generous WA member took a look at the site and offered suggestions as to how I might improve it. I am extremely grateful for her time and effort in helping me see a path forward with both my layout, and the marketing strategy, and I intend on making many changes based on her thoughts.
When I initially developed the site, I thought that when I was ready to add new content to the site, I would typically add it as one-page articles, adding a single webpage per article to the site. Each article-webpage would be optimized for a single keyword phrase, and the meta title and description tags would reflect that. Perhaps these article-pages would be organized within an article section of the site. Each article-page would have the full navigational menu as any other page, providing links to the rest of the site and the Amazon Affiliate links sprinkled throughout it.
Even though I hadn’t created my site with Wordpress, I now know that I can add the WP blog software to the site. Instructions I’ve found look fairly straight forward. My question is whether it’s better to add this Wordpress blog software to the site, or organize on-site content as I had originally planned?
I do pay attention to setting up meta title and description tags in the head sections of every page, and optimize the content for that. I also have added Google Analytics code to every page, and have created and submitted an xml sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools, so I don’t think that I’m missing out on any benefits to having WP in that respect.
The one main benefit that I can see to having a website built with Wordpress is having a Ping plugin, such as cbnet Ping Optimizer, or WordPress Ping Optimizer, so as to auto-ping the long list of ping sites that many recommend, rather than having to manually ping each one.
At this point, I’m NOT going to rebuild the site in WP, that’s not the point of this post. I’m wondering if anyone has any thoughts and insights around the pros and cons of adding blog software to the non-WP site versus just adding pages to the site. If anyone does, I’d surely appreciate some feedback.
Thank You! -John
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