what is the maximum no pages i can add in wordpress.com blog .?

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  vishalt · Member · Jan 12, 2011 at 3:41 am

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  hi, i wanted to know if there is any upper limit to the no. of pages i can add in wordpress.com blog. i searched the forums and support. all i could find was information for wordpress.com sites and not blogs,

  hence, please help,

  thank you,

  vishal t

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  airodyssey · Member · Jan 12, 2011 at 4:27 am

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  Hi Vishal. According to the support documentation, there is no limit to the number of pages you can have:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  This being said, if you are building a blog, you may want to consider using posts instead of pages, as they rank better in search engines:
  http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/better-blogging-at-wordpress-com-pages-and-posts/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 12, 2011 at 5:17 am

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  Also, pages can quickly become very difficult to navigate if you get a lot of them especially if you are planning on adding a lot of stuff. I ran into a blog the other day with probably 50 sub menu items off one navigation tab, and there were probably between 20 and 40 on several other tabs. My eyes glazed over and I went elsewhere.

  With posts you can divide them up into categories and sub categories so that people can get groups of posts instead of having to search through tons of pages for that one specific post.

  Some drawbacks to using pages (offered only as food for thought):

  For some types of sites, pages may actually be the best way of presenting the material, but wordpress.COM is optimized for posts.

  1. Pages will show up lower in search engine results because search engines place lower emphasis on pages. Pages are meant for static content.

  2. When you publish a post, wordpress automatically “pings” all the major search engines to let them know you have published a new post so that they can index it. When you publish a page, wordpress does NOT “ping” the search engines. You will have to ping manually at a service such as pingomatic.com or wait for the search engines to find the page on their own when they make a scheduled crawl of your site.

  3. Only posts show up on an RSS feed, pages do not. That means people cannot subscribe to your blog so that they are alerted when you add something new. The email subscriptions do not work for pages, only for posts, so none of your subscribers will be alerted when you publish a new page.

  4. The search box in your blog searches posts only, not pages. That means if someone on your blog searches for something that you have in a page, that page will NOT be returned in the results.

  5. You can assign categories and tags to posts to help the search engines properly place you in search results. Pages cannot have tags or categories as they sit outside the blog structure which means your stuff will also not show up in the wordpress.COM global tags pages. For most people the global tags pages are responsible for bringing a lot of visitors to their blogs.

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  vishalt · Member · Jan 12, 2011 at 5:50 pm

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  thanks a lot, that was really helpful..you guys rock…!!