Blog On Your Home Page or Static Page?

[Mark Z]

I have noticed that some Real Estate websites have their blog on the home page as well as behind some static page. I was wondering if this is a well thought out SEO tactic to make your website much stronger? I'm thinking because of the fresh content being added to the homepage in the form of a blog, this gives a better page rank and better rank in the SE's in general because it looks like the home page has fresh content being added to consistently rather than just a static page deep in the site. Any thoughts?

[tsteuwer]

I think this is true since the page is constantly being updated. However, I haven't found an easy way to make our blog come up easily on the front page. The only one I can find is the google gadget, but since it's javascript, I doubt the crawlers/spiders could read or even see them.

[VRI]

You could include any/all of the content with an includes file or your rss feed.

[Ron Tarvin]

I have wondered about this a lot. A blog on the same URL, a blog on a separate URL...which is the most effective blog!?

[Tsena]

We just launched a blog on our url as a way to keep adding fresh content to the site. I will be watching our placement in the search engines and see if adding the blog will make any difference.

[jay.robinson15]

That's an interesting idea. Let us know how it works out, because I know that's something I would consider doing to my static website.