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Pages - How to use them
By Mike | January 30, 2007
This is the first of the posts answering the questions that were asked in the survey below. If you have not added yours feel free to do so now. Your question may be answered here.
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Previously I have posted as to what pages are so you can find that below. Now the question of how to use them. This blog is a perfect example. If you have something that you want to be permanently available from all parts of your blog a page works best.
The link will stay in your page index on the side bar until you delete the page. Depending on your theme it will create a tab or link in your header for easy access to any visitor.
On this blog I have two pages - an about page and a blogging 101 page. More may be added in the future. You can access them from the tabs at the top or the links in the side bar and they will be visible whether your reader is on the main page or any of the single pages. Most of your search engine visitors will come in on a single post page.
The unanswered part of the question is why? That will be different for each person and depend on what you are using your blog for.
For me the about page is a default in the standard installation and I feel that I should let people know who I am and what I do so they can decide if I am someone they want to listen to. The blogging 101 page has a podcast that I want to keep available so I added it as a page.
Just one or two other personal examples. I have a blog that I use just for selling my services for custom blogs. On that blog I have an order page that includes a form to get a quote. For the purpose of that blog even if I add additional information there I want that readily available for people along with the contact page so people know how to reach me. The form is nice but if you are going to spend your hard earned money you should have more than just an email form to contact me with.
Any item that you want readily accessible long term is a prospect for being done as a page rather than a post.
Hope this has answered the question and if not leave a comment about anything that was unclear.
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