I have several ‘niche’ blogs all on the same subject. They feed links and traffic through click through ads, to two seperate ‘retail’ sites I own. Obviously the higher my sites sit in the rankings, then generally the more traffic to my money making sites.

With this in mind, I set a number of wordpress sites using posts on the frontpage. This gave a ‘dynanmic’ type site, decent results in terms of positions, although sometimes a little inconsistant.

I then placed a couple of blogs with a static front page option. There are also a few posts behind them, but the front page has changed very little.

I have found some promising results with google, but even more so with Bing and Yahoo.

I think particulary ‘niche’ sites, static front pages can be great with regards to SEO.

I’ve set my wordpress reading section to send all posts to a new page, which I ‘ve named ‘blog’

When I try and open one of the posts by clicking on the title of it I get an black page saying:-

Oops, That wasn’t found

Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.

Also, I get the same message when I click on the ‘leave your comment’ tag!

At present the new ‘Blog’ page is on the nav bar and has the following URL: http://www.gapinsurancereviews.co.uk/blog/

I’ve set up one catagory at present called ‘articles’ which displayes the following URL: http://www.gapinsurancereviews.co.uk/category/articles/

I notice that the word ‘blog’ is not showing?

Is this why I can’t view the posts?

Hope you can help!

Thanks

Chris
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Not sure if I explained correctly!

I have set up a page just called ‘Blog’ where all my posts go that would have gone on the front page, had I not set up a static home page!

Problem is when you go to the ‘blog page’ you can view the posts however if you click on one the post titles you get a error saying ‘no posts matched your criteria,.
Is there something wrong with the settings?

Regards

Chris

What widget are you referring to? It sounds like the static page is set up correctly but that it’s the widget that is causing the problem.

I’ve followed the advice on Codex about setting up another page and leaving it blank for all the posts.

I now have a separate page showing all the recent posts, however if I try and put my blog posts in the side bar using the Widget all my posts are displayed but when you click on one the text has gone! This has only happened sine I set up the static home page and the blank page for posts.

Can you tell me how I should set up my blog correctly for posts etc.

Thanks

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