Move My Popular Posts to Pages?

  • gopanthers

    (@gopanthers)


    14 years, 1 month ago

    This is a WordPress related question but not technical and not a problem. Just looking for some 2nd thoughts.

    I’ve just moved my blog. 9 years on Blogger and now on WordPress (and liking it very much so far). Since I made this move, I also moved it to a different domain so all my old inbound links would be wrong now. Oh well, that’s life (and I’m not asking about a way to help with that).

    I did analyze my inbound links and identified just a few of my blog old posts were generating the majority of all incoming traffic. Basically these few posts were clearly my most popular (by a long shot). One of these posts has traffic because my post is listed as a source citation in Wikipedia, which can be updated to the new URL. Another two posts are coming from search engine traffic based on a niche subject that I’m apparently the only one to ever write about, so I can’t change any link but Google will find the new location sooner or later.

    My question is this: For those few posts I have that are clearly much more popular than anything else I write about, since the links have changed anyway and this would be a good time to do it, would you consider moving those popular posts to “Pages” instead? I feel like these popular subjects deserve their own “articles” instead of just a blog post.

    One advantage could be that they get a little bit more visibility (and a better URL) by being in my header (although I would nest them), but I suppose I could just add a sidebar section that links to my best posts and achieve the same results. One disadvantage though appears to be that my internal blog search won’t find it if it’s a page.

    I know it doesn’t really matter because Google will find the content wherever I end up placing it, and I can fix inbound links too, but I was just looking to see if anybody else out there had some other thoughts about the idea of moving the most popular content from a blog post in to a Page instead?

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  • flamenco

    (@flamenco)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    I have done exactly what you described, for the same reason… they’re big “search finds”, and I want them easy to locate for the user, thus in the menu. And to me, if it’s easy to find in the menu, no need for searching for it with the site’s search. Heck, if you really want that, I’m pretty sure there are search plugins that will cover pages and posts.

    I suppose you could redirect the person to the content’s new spot, but like you said, Google will figure it out without too much trouble.

    That’s my take. Cheers.

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