Posts More Important Than Pages In the Eyes of Awin

Not to be a downer, here, but I learned something really shocking today with my rejection by Etsy. There is a huge difference between Pages and Posts-- way more than I've had any indication of previously with my WA training or with my personal experience. In fact, Kyle said clearly in comments here - https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/robvallair/blog/awesome-tuto... that there is little reason to change pages to posts.

Here is the comment from Awin that brought my Etsy rejection today. I know of one other WA affliliate who recieved the same message:

"The following reason has been provided:

Thank you for your application. We noticed that the blog portion of your site has limited content. We encourage you to reapply once additional content has been added to the site and wish you luck with growing your business! Thank you!

Regards,Awin"

This is significant because I only have 15 blog Posts, it's true. But I also have 47 Pages on my site! It has a lot of quality content out there-- just not blog posts. My grand idea, as I was setting up my website, was to have an encyclopedic menu of information for beginners as permanent pages on my site. Blog posts were to be more up-to-date info, tips and tricks, reviews, and profiles of artists or professionals in my niche. I have only recently begun to focus on those, feeling that I have a nice, full site with loads of information on all those pages.

I had NO IDEA that some affiliate programs consider "Pages" to be... well... worthless. I thought that the permanent nature of them made my site more authoritative. It never occurred to me that anyone was counting the number of posts as though they are the only content that matters!

So, now I know. I'll be installing a post-type switcher plug-in tomorrow and start converting pages to posts.

Right now? Time for a break. I'm feeling a little ticked off.

Write on,

--Kelley