For sure, I don’t want to ignore SEO, this makes me think of WordPress posts vs pages for SEO!

So, I’ve tried to discover the real difference between post and page regarding search engines optimization, and which one has more SEO privileges.

A quick look into WordPress Posts VS Pages

Before we start, let’s assume that we have two sites, both have exact everything, and they are equal in terms of content, plugins, theme, and other search engine optimization stuff like (titles, URLs, structure, keyword research, backlinks, etc.).

A very interesting thing to mention is that any WordPress site built primarily with posts will perform much better in search engines than one built mostly with pages, of course assuming that both sites has the exact everything and they are equal. This is not imagining, it’s based on my personal experience.

If you look at the WordPress post vs page comparison at WordPress.com support, you will find out some differences like…

WordPress blog posts

Posts are entries listed in reverse chronological order on the blog home page or on the posts page if you have set one in Settings > Reading. If you have created any sticky posts, those will appear before the other posts. Posts can be found in the Archives, Categories, Recent Posts, and other widgets. Posts are also displayed in the RSS feed of the blog. You can control how many posts are displayed at a time in the Reading Settings. Read more about posts.

WordPress blog pages

Pages are static and are not listed by date. Pages do not use tags or categories. An About page is the classic example. Pages can be displayed in the sidebar using the Pages widget, and some themes display pages in tabs at the top of the blog. If you have 50 pages and you use the Pages widget, then all pages will be listed all the time. Read more about pages.

Additional information

The description of posts and pages above is very short and general as they just made this information available for WordPress.com users, and it has nothing about SEO, but I have an important comment here…

They say Pages are static. This is not really the way it is. You must know that every single piece of content presented by WordPress is -in fact- a web page. that has been created dynamically. The term “static” was used here to presents the meaning of “static content” or “content is not changing often”, this is confusing, but it’s not hard to understand! Let me explain it more…

Every WP page is dynamic, as WP pulls content from database, so basically WP Page is just another virtual page that doesn’t really exists till someone call it (a visitor jumped on the page url)!

So, back to the explanation of “static page”, this means the content of pages are not likely to be changed or edited for long time. (You don’t edit your About page every day, don’t you?!)

Here are a few other things to consider while comparing posts and pages:

• WordPress posts and pages both pings other sites when they created or updated (both should be indexed well).
• Both has same SEO options.
• Pages do not cycle through by date, but this doesn’t mean it has no publishing date. (I wonder how Google will deal with it regarding microdata)
• Pages are not included in RSS feed, but this plugin can include WordPress pages in RSS feed.
• Pages has nothing to do with the blog, it’s not hanged to anything (only sub pages) It’s an awesome flying piece of content!
• Use pages to for content you want people to see every time they visit your blog.

Check out this quick example that I’ve created to explain the very basic WordPress blog structure, this may help to see how your blog looks like:

Now, you think about it!

You can easily get all posts on the blog plus other pages to link to a particular page simply by adding a link to that page in the blog navigation menu. However, you can do the same thing for posts, but it’s not a perfect idea. In my opinion, navigation should only link to pages and categories! Mainly put links to the stuff you would like your visitors to see all the time!

Technically speaking, both pages and posts are stored exactly the same way in WordPress database, in the same table, The only difference is the post_type field which is set to page for pages, and post for posts, and basically bot have same data saved, including SEO data.

Pages or Posts for better SEO ?

I don’t know, but I think the question is wrong; I am just not comfortable with it, maybe because every wrong question is likely to have a wrong answer!

I think Google won’t care that much whither you publish a post or page, but probably Google prefers posts, that’s why Google still considering how you tagged your blog posts.

Considering that most WordPress sites link to their Pages from every other url within their site, we could came up with a nice conclusion, Pages are more important for SEO.

Wait a minute!

Ana, wrote a nice post on SEO-Group.net sharing some SEO trick! But hey…

Please don’t tell me that you will turn your posts into pages for better SEO or ranking!

Why?

The right answer (for the wrong question) is you must have both -posts and pages- on your blog to actually rank well, they both work together some how! Pages are used to define your main focus, important information, and what’s your blog is about. It’s for your main keywords, while Posts are the publishing platform, it’s what you should use to ping search engines and get a RSS!

But, turning your blog posts into pages? I think this isn’t right, especially if your post got already some comments and shares!.

I won’t be turning a blog post into a page just to rank it higher, I would do this only to include this post into the core of my blog, but I don’t see this as a useful SEO practice. The way I see it right is to create a custom post type for product reviews.

P.S. What’s you’ve read above presents my personal opinion!  (I respect the experiment, I appreciate it when someone take the time to share good stuff).

Why Should I use Custom Post Types

Before we get to answer this question, we probably need to understand types of content we can have in WordPress, and what are custom post types, so take a look here to understand posts types.

1. Posts: the main type used by the blog.
2. Pages: are like posts, but lives outside the normal time based structure of posts.
3. Attachments: a special post that holds information about files uploaded through the Media upload system.
4. Revisions: hold draft posts as well as any past revisions of existing posts or pages.
5. Nav Menus: holds information about a single item in the Navigation Menu system.
6. Custom Post Types: allow you to define the post type and how it operates within WordPress.

As you see, WordPress have a few post types and more than one way to deliver content, since WordPress 3.0 version, you’ve got the capability to add your own custom post types and to use them in different ways, for example: products, events, people, testimonials, podcasts, reviews, ratings, movies, cars, offers, places, etc.

The cool thing I see about custom posts types is the ability to add  microdata and rich snippets, this will allow Google and other search engines to get to know your content better. Also, you can have RSS feed for your custom post types and feed it to Google, here is a post on how to create custom post type feed that is really useful.

Finally, I’ve got stars

I’ve succeeded on getting the stars for my reviews in Google results, check out this screenshot of my ThirstyAffiliates review:

It looks pretty cool, ha?

But it took me several weeks of coding and playing around till finally I’ve got it to work, but this is not the important thing, really! The important thing to me is the knowledge of how to write power reviews and get them indexed with stars in Google. I finally got it, but it’s horribly coded in my Thesis theme I am using on this blog.

Now that I know how it works, I will be able to start over and re-code the whole thing into a custom post type!

Conclusion

Pages and Posts has the same exact SEO features, but I think Google will look more seriously into blogs that are implementing microdata and rich snippets.

I wish I could go back in time and re-structure my blog.

I recommend custom post type for reviewing products.

Almost every blogger who strives to earn a living from blogging struggles in one way or form to make money online. It is my pleasure to open some minds and give you the exact secrets on how bloggers make money, and I am not talking about just banners, I am talking about real proven techniques! So make sure your sitting on your chair tightly so you don’t fall off, because what I am about to tell you will change your life!

The Real Truth on How to Make Money through Blogging

Well everyone keeps on asking, how do I make money blogging, I am still not making money, so here is the answer! Start buying some popular products either virtual products through Clickbank or Physical products through Amazon and after you try them, do a blog review post about it. You will normally find you not only make your money back but profit as well.

This Does Not Mean You Have To Become a Review Site

To review products as a blogger is a very healthy thing to do as it shows others that there are tools that can help them succeed and by reviewing tools, programs and whatever else is related to your blogs niche gives better insight to your readers. Now of course I don’t recommend you post every day about products, I would like to suggest 1 out of 4-5 posts you can review something. This allows you to not only get yourself familiar with what is out there, but also learn and grow as a business person too, not just a blogger, it now becomes a blogging business.

You can even make money by posting interviews on your site about others and the products of the people you are interviewing may own and discreetly have your affiliate link there, this is one of the greatest examples how Michael Dunlop from IncomeDiary makes money!

Sign Up With Some Good Affiliate Networks

To start off with I recommend you use Clickbank to review ebooks, membership sites, video tutorials or software and Amazon to review real products like technology equipment, books, cd’s, and much more. By signing up with affiliate networks, you can obtain affiliate links not just banners, and with those links make them active on certain keywords in your blog post. Then of course you can get commissions for whoever clicks on your affiliate links to buy a product that you have mentioned on your review pages.

Doing Your Keyword Research For Your Blog Post Titles

Making sure your keywords for your headline are low competition and have a healthy overall search volume for the month and are trending upwards over time are the first key elements any blogger should concentrate on before posting about a product they want to make money on. Unfortunately it takes a lot of time researching keywords typically in a few windows before posting a profitable headline, so to save time and effort I highly recommend you use a SEO WordPress Plugin called Keyword Winner. It will give you stats all at your fingertips just as you are writing your headline, you click “get suggestions” and whala!

Why The Keyword Research Is Important?

When a buyer is hot, they are using search engines to find products and people typically type in the search term of a product in Google before seeing whats available or sometimes they already know what they want so the next main step before any buyer making a purchase is to type the word “review” at the end of it. By adding the word review at the end of the keywords allows them to see what others are saying about the product either good or bad before buying, they can read the actual post of a product that someone has already reviewed or others have commented on.

Proof Is In the Pudding

This is why you see a lot of bloggers out there who are researching keywords for their headlines before writing an actual blog post, because if you want to attract real buyers you must use keywords in your headline of your post which not only grabs the buyers attention but most importantly contains the keywords that he buyer will find you on when they are searching in Google.

I know this for a fact as I have made good money from my blog and enough to earn a good living, my best converted pages on sales are about reviews and indirect marketing approaches using keyword research.

You will notice other bloggers like John Chow who is one of the top pro bloggers in the world that every post he makes normally each headline is not only optimised but also aimed in some way or the other to attract buyers. He is a great example of this as he clearly states that he makes $40k per month blogging, and believe me folks this is no joke.

One big example is I recently did a product launch on my keyword research plugin for bloggers – Keyword Winner and when John Chow got his hands on it, he could not stop using it, and then he referred others to use it and made money that way. So when you are passionate about a product and review it, you can sell a lot more, as readers can smell this from a mile away, so the trick is to be fully passionate about a product first before you review it.

Final Say

If you are not making money after you have read this post, then you have not used tools such as Keyword Winner and you are still doing things the hard way. Take action today invest in buying tools, programs or products that you can also later review about, it’s a win win, you can not lose, believe me, take this advice from me and take action today!

I know that the answer to this question seems to be a little complicated, I mean.. Who can do high paid reviews and earn good money without including some white lies?! Well.. We have done it! and we have an answer to this complicated question I will share with you, but first.. and because thanking people for their good work is very important -even if I don’t mention them by names- I must do it before anything else, I am sorry!

I want to take the chance to talk a little about Famous Bloggers as a growing community for bloggers who wants to learn, and at the same time share and teach their own working techniques and tips with others, and thank them for the great work.

I also want to thank the Internet Marketers, because of them I now know what “Paid Reviews” means, and I am going to share with you my own story -I hope you do’t mind- that happened when I first started blogging, and challenges I was facing at that time, maybe you will find something interesting or you will know about something you have been missing!

Funny things always happen to me at the beginning of discovering anything!

Generally speaking, paid reviews is a nice and fast way to make money from the internet if you know how to do them, and you do them “Fast”!

I have done several paid reviews through common paid reviews services, it was the very first thing I ever know that really allows you to earn fast and make money by writing on your own blog about services and products, but the “Fast” was not fast enough, always there is a problem, but the good thing in this life is for each problem there is always a solution, and some times there are more than one solution, you just need to look for them on the right place!

How the Magic Started?

After a few months from starting my new blog, and after the first Google PageRank update, I got my first self hosted blog’s PageRank of 4, this made advertisers and marketer contact me almost every week asking for a “blog review”!

To be honest, I didn’t know how to write a good review or even whatever review, I actually didn’t know what is a “blog review” at that time!

Don’t be shocked, but I am telling the pure truth!

It’s very common thing if you used to live in a country that promises everyday to provide an affordable and cheap internet connections regarding the revolution of communication, and you wait and wait, and nothing from that happen. If you live in a country that is not on PayPal list and you can not bring the cash you have earned in. If your first language is not English and all the time try to discover what people are talking about!

You Must Overcome your Challenges

I remember I was suffering from all of that and having no hope of earning from the internet, and I had to go with Google AdSense because they pay by Western Union which has a hand on every country, but the daily 0.20 cents will not take care of hunger, AdSense earnings was not enough for anything! But because nothing is impossible in this life, I had to find a way. After several tries and wasted time, I finally discovered the solution, in one word it’s “Connections”, powerful connections with people from all over the world! (If you know what I mean!)

What a Hunter like me will do?!

Marketers and advertisers introduced me to this -new to me- world, and of course, a hunter like me will “immediately” try to understand why those guys want to pay me for, and what’s so special about my blog that makes it valuable for them!

So, I tried to discover what is a blog review, and I got the picture -I thought I did- it seemed to be very simple, just write whatever 300 words review the service or the product, tell people how much you like it, and how awesome it is to have it and you will get paid from $10 up to $40 per review!

What I have DONE? And what I have GOT?!

Probably now you know what’s missing, it’s the word “Honest”, it’s missing from all those reviews, yes.. Those reviews was not honest enough!

I really don’t know how this happened! maybe because the concept of working online was a little confusing at the beginning and I just didn’t get it!

What I have done?! I wrote fast cheap paid reviews that -in my own personal opinion- worth nothing, and what I have got now is a nice full of crap paid reviews blog that also -in my personal opinion- worth nothing, just nothing!

Some times I am afraid to share… But silent is not the solution!

“Sorry” will not solve the problem, but maybe working hard to change that will maybe fix it, some nice hard new start probably will change the world!

Changing the World!

I didn’t fully understand that mistake when I was doing it, and probably instead of feeling guilty I was proud of it, I mean I am making money online, and everything seems to be fine, but it wasn’t!

I really don’t blame my self -I would if I still doing it till now- but what I did to change the world?!

I had a dream, I made a plan, I did some sacrifices, and I worked hard! and again I am so thankful for those who dreamed with me!

Since I started FamousBloggers.net, and I am thinking different about everything, I am so open to learn and discover the facts of everything around me, I take it a step by step, and I don’t rush things! and after working for several month we could get enough popularity, and enough amount of traffic to attract marketers!

I realized that a review is a review, no matter what, but you have to write it based on your own personal experience with the service or the product you are reviewing, we must know what we are talking about, we should review only what we know is right, and this is how we are doing here on Famousbloggers.net!

How we put our Paid Reviews Policy

So many people knows that we have created a powerful community here at FB, and a lot are visiting our advertising page almost everyday, I receive emails from advertisers and marketers on daily basis, I reject so many requests because I know our blog readers, I feel what they like and dislike, and I am looking forward to know them more in the future to give them what they need, want and looking for!

I had to add this to our advertising page to tell marketers about how we do paid reviews:

We have a group of motivated writers, they can review your product or service. contact us if your service or product match our niche and tell us about your needs, our reviews prices start from $xx (we don’t review any product or service unless we try it and take a deep look inside!)

I put xx instead of the price because it could change at any time, so I won’t include it here, anyways.. review price is not a big deal, the deal here is how we are doing it, and how we will introduce the service or the product to our blog readers, those who put their trust on us, those who knows that we got paid to publish a review, so.. I am going to tell this fact, we will never review something on FamousBloggers just because we got paid for it!

The benefits of writing Honest Reviews

Our first rule is to write an honest review, and this is the main thing I am discussing with our marketers when they contact me, there is nothing in this world will make us write what the marketers want, there is only honest reviews, they pay us because of the fact that we are honest!

So, if the service or product we are talking about doesn’t appeal to be a high level service, then we will have to include that on our review, and no matter what.. we will never sell our readers for a few dollars!

And guess what?! This really works, people respect us when we tell the truth, right?

Even marketers and products owners are respecting us because we give them a honest review, which is a great help to them to enhance and evaluate their own service or product, they deal with it as a good and helpful feedback, and that’s pretty cool!

How to write a high paid review?

Because we have done great job with our paid reviews experiment, then we will try to rank our reviews higher in search engines, because we have nothing to hide or to be shy of, and probably this explain our paid review prices and conditions, it’s clearly because of the kind of service we provide, why not giving some points or steps of writing a high paid review:

• Discover and get to know the product or the service you are reviewing
• Write a honest review (This is the most important step)
• Promote your review on social media and bookmarking sites
• Do some SEO magic rank your review higher in search engines

We are working day and night to guarantee that every piece of content going out to our readers is 100% safe, and has value.

We have rejected so many posts and articles from a few bloggers, marketers and link builders, and I have talked about this before, the reason is they are aiming only to build backlinks to their clients by writing guest posts and getting it published on several blogs!

I am so thankful to all bloggers who supported FamousBloggers.net all the way!

We just want everybody to know that we are accepting guest posts only from real bloggers, we support bloggers in our community, and if see in the future any reviews is because we know the person, we trust and support them, mainly because they are our community friends.

Gaining the Trust!

This is trust, it’s the most valuable and important thing in our lives, building trust is not easy because trust is a “good thing” and good things are always hard to achieve!

I am sure there are hundreds of bloggers have done it, doing it, and will do it over and over! I must tell you, it’s all in your hands to change all that, it’s a simple decision you can make today, maybe it’s hard to achieve, but it’s completely worth your hard work, I promise you, it will pay off one day, and probably better than you can imagine!

That was how we got high paid reviews published on our blog and earning money while making the internet world a better place!

So… plz learn from my mistakes, and participate in making the online world a better place!

The first tip is not new, you probably read about it everyday on the Blogosphere, it’s just about writing and publishing unique content everyday for our readers!

The second tip I already told you about, yes.. we try publish everyday, 7 times a week, and sometimes more! We are trying to make our blog and network bell rings everyday for you to find interesting and fresh daily making money tips.

Third tip is about promotion, we get high promotion on several common social networks and bookmarks websites, and high conversation on our comment section, of course our cool making money contest is playing a good role as a source of our traffic, we are going to continue this till search engines take care of our blog and consider it as it’s own baby!

And believe it or not, I am writing this post and make it ready before this happen with one day, this is the day 15, Famous Bloggers blog on Alexa is 50.519 but I am sure we will brake and smash the 50.000 by tomorrow if not today while we are sleeping!

What about you? Any progress in the last 15 days? Any more Alexa tips?

By the way, if you review FamousBloggers on Alexa we will return the favor, just leave a comment with your blog link!

For Bloggers

The increase will take effect on January 13th, 2010. This increase will not affect previously made bids, your previous bids will continue to pay 65%.

This is a notice I received by email from SponsoredReviews through their newsletter, they are asking all bloggers members (If necessary) to make any required adjustments to your blog prices and new bids in order to compensate for the increased transaction fees.

For Advertisers

From the other side SponsoredReviews advertisers is given a 20% discount as encouragement to make bulk purchases, the plan is to have a large effect on the number of paying opportunities available to all bloggers.

So.. after you heard this news, what do you think of this change in transaction rate?

Are you welling to continue participating in SponsoredReviews system?