Which one should I set as my opening page?
It depends on what kind of a site you have. If I visit your site and I need a page to explain what the site is all about and such then I would use a static page.
Example:
I have a payday loan site that offers one service and I need my opening page to explain that service right up front so I use a static page.
I use the blog roll as a news blog with all the current payday loan industry news.
If I can clearly see what the site is about just by the header then I would use a blog roll.
This is a decision you will have to make for yourself.
Next, let's take a look at how to create a home page with first a static page and then a blog roll.
let's take a look at my test site one, this site is set up with a static front page and a blog roll on a tab in the header menu.
Here is the site : Test Site One
Lets take a look at my test Site Two. This site has the blog roll for the opening page and the home page is a page on the header menu.
Here is the site: Test Site Two
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I have the blog roll page working well.
Took me a bit to figure it out, one of those things that was so easy I over thought it..Lol. :))
http://brightoncomputerandretailstore.com/
What is interesting, the way I had it before I was ranking 38 with Google for this page, now that I revised it and removed a ton of other content that was a bit confusing probably. I am now ranking 2.5 on Google Analytics for this page.
And here is my post blog roll that I set up in my menu for reading:
http://brightoncomputerandretailstore.com/blog-computers/
This is now ranking 4.1, it was running at about page 5 for a while till I changed some of my blogging routines. Well, actually I didn't even have a blog roll till about two weeks ago, was having a duhh moment on how to get it set up. I just had a long running page with all the blogs on it.
Thanks, I appreciate you taking a look. :))
