Comments on: How Do You Feel About A Static Homepage On A Blog?

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:31:15 +0000

@Angie, A different one from what you’re linked to here?
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By: Angie

Angie — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:59:40 +0000

My main website has the front page as static. But I list all the recent posts in the sidebar. It works for me. thank

By: Kai

Kai — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:56:56 +0000

I do great with static blogs. I think as long as they are very informational, it will work fine. You just need to continue spending time on backlinks otherwise it won’t rank high in the serps.

-Kai
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By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:03:09 +0000

@Valentina,

Thank you and welcome to the community!

You picked up on something very important. The comments to a post can be equally or even more informative then the post itself!

By: Valentina

Valentina — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:21:54 +0000

Dennis, this is marvelous … I think everyone is waiting with bated breath for the unveiling of the revamped blog. I am sure it will be awesome. What is also interesting that as I was re-reading some of the earlier comments right to the last one, I learned some valuable points too.

Wishing you enormous success, and……………..

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

valentina

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:46:55 +0000

@Dragon Blogger,

Oh please do me a favor, add a real or nick name in front of the keywords - name@DB kinda thing…thanks!

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:45:55 +0000

@Dragon Blogger,

First, is this your first visit? If so, welcome friend! If not, my apologies, I’m usually pretty good at remembering these things. I figured it might be as I had to “approve” you.

“blogs that have a static homepage are better off using the wordpress hitched off of /blog URI and leaving the homepage entirely non-wordpress for logistical reasons.”

Please say that again for a 4yo mind .

I’m currently testing the sticky thing as well as the static page option. Although things may be added/deleted from time to time, it won’t be rotated…it will stay pretty much as is, as it will be a navigational thing.

Akismet - you’re one of a few in the past month having to dig me out. I’m wondering if someone out there thinks it’s funny. As we know, Akismet works by “learning”…if even one person hits SPAM enough times, it will pick up on it.

Thanks for checking though.

By: Dragon Blogger

Dragon Blogger — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:14:07 +0000

You don’t have to have a full static homepage, you can have a partial with a Sticky Post, but blogs that have a static homepage are better off using the wordpress hitched off of /blog URI and leaving the homepage entirely non-wordpress for logistical reasons.

Wordpress now gives you the ability to change the layout based on categories and such, so you enormous flexibility, no reason not to use Wordpress for a company site anymore, the benefits are so much better.

The nice thing too is you can use a featured type setup by using sticky post as a static homepage, you can easily rotate it whenever you want.

PS. Your comments, every single one shows up in my spam queue, I always have to look for them or I miss them. I am not sure why Akismet doesn’t like your comments, may be from have the word sales and marketing in the URL it may think its spam or something.
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By: dowenloadz

dowenloadz — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:57:26 +0000

static homepage is important for about me pages or discraption about my blog but i didnt use it in else.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:01:18 +0000

@scheng1,

Not really, that’s the point of a static home page. The trick is to make sure it’s not boring and easy to navigate.