Visibility settings on pages: 'block search engines'!

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  mmadfan · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 3:24 am

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  Actually, some of my pages rank really well for their particular key words — at least on Google. I think it depends on what it’s about.

  I also post an announcement each time I publish a new page, just with the page name, a link to the page, and some kind of little summary. The pages still get traffic from search engines.

  Often in a day, I’ll have more hits to pages than to posts — not necessarily to any particular page, and the top hits are often to a few most recent posts, but once people land on my site, they very often visit more than one page. I try to make it easy for visitors to find the pages that have what they’re looking for, and I’ve found since I changed themes and revamped my blog, that even more pages are hit & my traffic in general has increased — although I changed the theme & added better navigation partly because I was getting more hits from search engines than I used to, and I realized that people were finding my blog but not necessarily the content they might want to see if they knew it was there.

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  mmadfan · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 3:26 am

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  Oh, and you can rename the titles in the menus and have them lead to posts or pages whose titles are different. I’ve done that with a few titles when I realized my original titles weren’t very good — I left the actual titles alone, but I name them something slightly different & more to-the-point in my custom menu.

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  mmadfan · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 3:41 am

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  I just looked at my top posts & pages widget, which gives an average from a couple days worth of hits, and four of the five are pages, not posts. Maybe they don’t often have google juice, but it’s possible to have pages do well & serve a purpose.