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Mark_Ch last edited by

I'm looking to add a number of feature rich articles to educate, promote best practice and provide useful all round advice.

My reasearch to date on the pros and cons have drawn me to writing articles as a page, as per
http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/#pagesvsposts

My Question, etc.
I would like to get an outside opinion on the above.

Additionally, how can you find out the site structure of a website.
i.e. what are blog posts or static pages
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Humanovation last edited by

I used pages for my category specific cornerstone articles that tend to get updated and then use posts to point to those cornerstone articles. Works for me ...
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