Pages vs Posts + External Links

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Quick questions:

Should I create multiple pages or use posts for my website? I'll be writing a few different articles targeting some long tail traffic.

Sorta confused on this too...do I need to send backlinks only to the articles or also to the home page? I don't have an EMD. I opted for a brandable name for this niche since I'm covering a few different aspects of it.

Also, I don't have links pointing to other websites. I've read that people are sending links to Wikipedia for their topic. I was considering linking to some respected fitness blogs for my fitness site.

Thanks for the help.
 


Pages and Posts function the same as far as HTML goes in wordpress. The bots read them the same. I think the only difference is posts let you do tags and all that crap.

You want to send backlinks to whatever page you want to rank, with the anchor text you want it to rank for.

I don't use outgoing links so I can't say. I don't know if the benefits outweigh the leaking of PR juice. You should test it and let me know.
 
Plan is good. But make sure that fitness site really accept your links. If so, then it will be great. Try it. And it depends on you whether you go for home pages or all pages to make backlinks. But it is good to go for home page first. Then some most important pages.
 
Yeah you want to link to each page that you want to rise in the SERP. I personally like to target easier long tail pages first, so those inner links also boost the main pages making them easier down the line.
 
I set up my site so that the post pages are ranking for keywords. My home page doesn't rank for any keyword at all.

The only time I use pages for articles is when I'm creating a page that's part of an email sequence that I don't want people to accidentally stumble upon when they're browsing the site.
 
Posts appears on the home page (not always) and slowly falls down the homepage as you add more posts, eventually being forced onto page 2 and so on (rolling down the page) as in a blog Roll.

Pages are usually seen as tabs at the top of the home page that you need to click on in order to see. They are static and the tab is always there where an old post will be hard to find way down on page 13 of your blog roll.
 
page v post is just a distinction that wp uses to differentiate between static webpages (you can still edit them) and individual posts that could be displayed in many different ways on a page that displays posts.

If you actually look at the table "wp_posts" in wp the only difference is a variable post_type where one is a post and one is a page. From google's point of view they don't care.
 
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