Pages vs. Posts for SEO

[csmm]

Hi,

I would like your thoughts about pages vs. posts for SEO. I understand the difference in terms of WP structure and have read the SEOmoz blog post about setting up your site for SEO success (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success). However, if you're trying to rank for a particular keyword, it seems that either one could work, from an on-page SEO perspective, as far as title tag, URL, meta description, etc. So how do you decide whether to set up a page vs. a post? What are the pros and cons, from an SEO perspective, about using one vs. the other?

Thanks in advance!

Carolina

[csmm]

Thanks for the feedback! You've all answered my question.

[SixTwoInteractive]

You don't think that pages or posts rank higher in Google. It seems like my "pages" tend to rank higher than my "posts" regardless of length, quality, links, etc.

Have you noticed this?

[Jungles]

Marketing strategy/plan first! Then you will understand what where and why. SEO for everything as it is a part of Marketing and idea of the content.

Best,

Jungles

[EGOL]

Publishing on "pages" or "posts" is not the consideration.

What is important is the quality of what you publish and how you organize your content and present it to your audience.

[Bryant-Jaquez]

Let me be the first to set your mind to rest. This isn't something that you need to worry about.

Instead of worrying about which one to use for SEO, make your choice based on your development limitations. Posts and Pages have different limitations and built in funcinalities (for Wordpress) but not for SEO. All of that being said, if you can customize, or hire someone to customize your theme for you, there are not any limitations. For example, the home page of our website pulls in excerpts from posts marked "services" and displays them in the "service" section of our home page.