Post only visible in categories
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Is it possible to post entries in a category without them getting visible at the startpage? If you dont get what i mean : http://www.jontegfx.wordpress.com. I want the latest post just to be visible in the tutorials category.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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If you change your blog to have a static home page, instead of a home page that shows your most recent blog entries, that might accomplish what you want. Check out:
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You may also, create pages which do not appear in home page, but they wont be categorized with your posts.
So you can create a page named tutorial, and have all your tutorials under that page.
The way pages appear in your blog, depends on your theme. For example “monochrome” has a page-navigation and multi level dropdown menu which will be helpful.
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Unfortunately, static pages kill the search engine rankings of a blog. Static front pages are bad, but adding to existing static pages are much worse. It’s a tradeoff.
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Ah. Interesting point, raincoaster. But if you had a static home page, and an otherwise normal blog, would that still be a problem? Seems to me that it shouldn’t be. But reality may differ!
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Yes, it would be a LARGE problem. A friend of mine dropped three hundred THOUSAND places on Technorati.com just because he switched to a static homepage.
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raincoaster is correct. I also know bloggers who destroyed their blog’s PageRank by attempting to make them look and function like websites. I have posted on this subject many times on this forum.
A sure fire way to cripple your blog and make it near to impossible to acquire backlinks, Google juice and PageRank is to create a static home page for aesthetic reasons. If you want to kill a blog then make it into a pseudo website by replacing the post based structure with a static page based structure.
Static pages are for information that rarely, if ever, changes. Categories and tags cannot be assigned to them. They do not automatically update and any new material placed on them must be placed there by editing. They possess very little Google juice.
Although publication of a post triggers immediate automatic pinging (via pingomatic) including the receipt of and publication of comments are pinged to search engines – static page changes are not pinged. If the search spiders are on your blog they will index static page changes but how frequently would they be summoned there if it appears that you never publish new content as you do not publish any posts?
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How many bloggers do you know who backlink to the static pages on other blogger’s blogs? And how will those static pages that have no tags and no categories assigned to them ever achieve any authority without receiving backlinks?
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hm, pretty emphatic answers! interesting. thanks. (maybe we need a new thread?)
Just to clarify, timethief, I’m not talking about totally ignoring the ever-so-useful blog template built-ins (which are such a big strength of WordPress.com), and replacing them with an alternative document structure which is just not supported by the templates. I am talking about a design which has a static home page, and ALSO a normal dynamic-post-based blog page, which I would think should attract traffic (or not!) in the normal way. It is true that a crawler would have to go one level deep (e.g. via recent posts) to discover new content. But I would have hoped this would have been compensated for by ping-o-matic. Or maybe not? I’m just not sure why not…?
And, raincoaster, I can see how changing the structure of your blog could cause a dramatic drop in rankings. But do you think that this would be the case if the blog were built like this from the ground up?
It’s not Friday night…but maybe we should take this outside? ;-)
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Would you care to point us to a blog that has done what you suggest. Then I’ll be glad to do the research and produce all the metrics for the site so we can examine them.
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I understand what you’re saying, but simply adding the barrier of a static page between your blog posts and the search engines will have a dramatic impact on your search engine rankings AND your typical readership. Readers invariably prefer to go straight to the stuff that interests them, and a static page interferes with their reading experience.
You can ping till the cows come home; the search engines will go to the front of your blog, see the exact same thing they saw last time, and conclude you don’t post your fresh stuff where it’s easy to find. This is how they rate sites: by how close to the very point of impact their freshest stuff is.
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TT: Engtech’s blog was set like that; it’s the one I mentioned, that dropped from a top-five thousand blog on Technorati to 350,000th just by putting the static page there.
If it had been built that way from the beginning, it never would have reached the top five thousand blogs in the world.
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@raincoaster
OOPS! Sorry about the “y” above. I still haven’t got over to the big island to buy a new keyboard and a tsunami is on the way. -
Timethief – I’ve got this structure on my private blog, but in this case search engires are not part of the picture. [If I can’t get my own family to read my blog without the help of Google then there’s lots more that needs fixing than just my document model..;-) Interestingly, in the ‘static home plus dyamic blog’ structure, subscription alerts deliver you directly to the fresh blog content not to the static page. Which is a Good Thing. (If they didn’t I wouldn’t have used it.)
Raincoaster – yes, yes! – readers do prefer to go straight to the stuff that interests them, but if they arrive via search then they would go to the indexed page not the home page, so the static page wouldn’t be in their way. the really critical point you are making, I think, is that pages one level deep just don’t get indexed as well as home pages, even if they have the same level of backlinks, metadata relevance, etc… -
@heatherstark
If you have a specific question that directly relates to your wordpress.com blog and you post it into another thread and I’m available I’ll answer it. I’m not into continuing the discussion in this thread. I think symphgfx as received an answer to the question he/or she posed when posting this thread.
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