Web Pages vs Web Posts Are The Same For Indexing

Dan Petrovic originally shared:   "Ha ha... what a silly question!"
When in fact it`s not. The person asking the question has inadvertently touched on a very interesting subject, that of Google`s classification of page types which goes beyond pages and posts, in fact it goes beyond on-page signals and looks at external and implicit factors as well. Of course pages and posts are both HTML and their ranking shouldn`t depend on that arbitrary classification, but there are more dimensions to Google than just ordinary ranking of results. One could argue that Google`s news results list special types of pages, and they are special in a sense that they`ve triggered one or more of Google`s algorithms in charge of freshness and newsworthy material. It`s useful for Google to distinguish forum posts, articles, news pieces, press releases and social media threads. They all behave differently and can be detected with or without on-page signals. So back on the subject of blog pages/posts... back in 2012 I wrote a short piece on how Google proposed detection active blogs through user-centric metrics: http://dejanseo.com.au/detecting-active-blogs-through-user-centric-metrics/ Google: Web Pages vs Web Posts Are The Same For Indexing