What do you think about Blog Integration?

Hi All-

I have been reading more and more on different forums about the benefiets of using Wordpress. More specifically I have been reading about the wonderful benefits of using Wordpress as you main index page and then linking to the rest of your website through this index page.

So this is how the thinking goes the best I understand it:

Since Wordpress is dynamic, easy to update, and can ping many services a website can get spidered deeper by the search engines and hopefully get more traffic. Yet this is all dynamic content and the search engines value static pages also or possibly higher in the serps. So you want your site to really be a static site. Therefore if you write an article etc you will upload this to your webstie as a static page. Then write a short summary and link to it in the summary and post this summary into wordpress. Which then pings allt he blog services and your new article will get spidered more quickly.

Is this the right line of thinking? I am still trying to grasp the whole thing. If this is then how do people integrate the two. What types of thigns do I post to the blog and what types of things go into the site.

Also how to I effectivly intergrate the two without having a bunch of different and confusing navigation menus? For example the wordpress website I just set up last week www.planbestwedding.com is alls et up to jsut function as a Wordpress site. I have been posting articles to it etc. YOu will notice there are categories set upf or the articles to be posted in and these show up in the right menu.

So if I wanted to most this to a static site also and just use the wordpress like spoken of abouve whould I then use use the same layout and create the pages in something like frontpage etc? I want the site to look uniform and dont want to confuse users between the blog and the website yet I dont find an easy way to keep this distinction clear.

My website main consists of articles of which Ihope to earn some adsnese $ off of and an ebook that I hope to sell. I will put a graphic and link to the ebook which will be a static page in the next week or so.

Is there really any benefit to donig the static and dynamic thing? Can't I get the same result by just blogging? The wordpress and blogging is so easy to update I am inclined to use this if the trade off is not to big.

Any thoughs, comments or questions? Does anyone have ideas of sites that have used this technique so I could see examples? DOesn;t have to be your own personal money making site I wouldn't ask this from anyone.

Thanks
Ichibanda

 

You can do the same thing with Blogger. Each post creates an individual webpage, so you can create a navigation menu that links to these pages. I will be launching a blog in a week that uses this format, so check my signature a week from tomorrow for an example.