Wordpress vs Dedicated pages for article

[yacpro13]

Which is better in an OsCommerce store? (from an SEO standpoint)

 

A wordpress blog, or creating a new page for each article?

 

 

To me, it seems not so easy to incorporate WP in OSC, and I can't think of anything wrong with creating new pages for each written article. With good meta tags, I can't see a reason why page articles would not provide huge SEO benefits.

 

I was thinking creating one main page with links to all article pages.

 

Thanks

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Which is better in an OsCommerce store? (from an SEO standpoint)

 

A wordpress blog, or creating a new page for each article?

 

 

To me, it seems not so easy to incorporate WP in OSC, and I can't think of anything wrong with creating new pages for each written article. With good meta tags, I can't see a reason why page articles would not provide huge SEO benefits.

 

I was thinking creating one main page with links to all article pages.

 

Thanks

Neither

[npn2531]

Neither

 

There is an article manager you can install here:

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/1709

 

However, titles will be something like www.mysite.com/articles.php?cID=1&pID=1 instead of www.mysite.com/titanium_widgets.php. You can use an .htaccess to fix that, but if you are fine with manually installing a new page for each article, instead of using an article manager, then you can create an SEO friendly page without .htaccess.

 

If you use wordpress as an article manager, you will have the same issue. Your article in wordpress is going to have a long nonsensical convoluted name. You can argue that Google will reference www.mysite.com/articles.php?cID=1&pID=1 just as well as www.mysite.com/titanium_widgets.php, but what appears in the google search result is the page name. IE titanium_widgets or articles.php?cID=1&pID=1 .

 

If you don't need the user friendly admin interface of a article manager to insert articles into your website, then it is slightly better SEO wise to install dedicated pages manually. Just be sure and do as you are thinking, also keep a 'master article webpage' listing all your article pages with titles, summaries and links. Google likes these kind of internal sitemaps.

[npn2531]

There is an article manager you can install here:

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/1709

 

However, titles will be something like www.mysite.com/articles.php?cID=1&pID=1 instead of www.mysite.com/titanium_widgets.php. You can use an .htaccess to fix that, but if you are fine with manually installing a new page for each article, instead of using an article manager, then you can create an SEO friendly page without .htaccess.

 

If you use wordpress as an article manager, you will have the same issue. Your article in wordpress is going to have a long nonsensical convoluted name. You can argue that Google will reference www.mysite.com/articles.php?cID=1&pID=1 just as well as www.mysite.com/titanium_widgets.php, but what appears in the google search result is the page name. IE titanium_widgets or articles.php?cID=1&pID=1 .

 

If you don't need the user friendly admin interface of a article manager to insert articles into your website, then it is slightly better SEO wise to install dedicated pages manually. Just be sure and do as you are thinking, also keep a 'master article webpage' listing all your article pages with titles, summaries and links. Google likes these kind of internal sitemaps.

 

 

I guess to add to this. Google doesn't care whether you use wordpress, manually installed pages or an article manager. What they look for is internal sitemapping, and that page title and page content are relevant to each other, and if you can also get the webpage name to match page title so much the better.

[yacpro13]

That's good info. So I will manually insert new pages for each article, while keeping a master page linking to all articles.

 

From there, SEO-wise, you guys say the page title should match the filename, right?

 

I was thinking about inserting the "Easy Meta Tags" piece of code on these page to automatically create those.

 

The goal is ultimately to drive more targeted traffic to the website.....any other good practice I should follow?

 

Thanks already for what's been said.

[lindsayanng]

You can use search engine friendly urls in wordpress.. ESPECIALLY if you use categories and such. You can have domain.com/categoryname/postname.php or something similar.. OR you can just do something with the dates of the post and uses the title as the url .

[yacpro13]

I made my master page that will link to all articles. I already have SEO URL and Easy Metas installed.

 

Turns out it is a very basic alternative, but should succeed at what it's for: traffic.