About best practices: which way is better, create individual pages or CMS pages

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Hi,

I’m just wondering about which way is better for performance and to keep the content organized.

I have a project and the client has a lot of features in their product, and the features are being added fast. Since the begin, I was creating each feature page as an individual page, a regular one, filled by a bunch of symbols, highlighting the feature advantages.

But, actually, I’m thinking about to move the creation of this pages to a CMS, instead to create each one almost from scratch.

There is a few points to consider, first one:

  1. the SEO and general performance. CMS is better or worse?

  2. I will recreate the symbols in the CMS by adding the field to be filled directly. Like: the title of a feature, the content and the image. Having said that, symbols are better than this approach?

  3. And the last topic, but not less important, is about the possibility to create a subcategory on CMS page. Like: Logistic (as main feature) > Logistic Routing (as sub feature). The idea here is to divide the product features in groups, considering an family logic.

Hope to hear from you soon, guys!

Best,

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Hey Andre, I’m curious about this as well. Were you able to resolve this? Did you end up using a CMS to create feature pages? Would be great to know about how performance has been. Thanks.

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Hi there, for both - I’d imagine that utilising the CMS would be the way to go for this.

Using the reference/multi-references could achieve the subcategories you were after and the collections would definitely help organise things much easier.

The limitation will be customisation if some products/features have different elements but there’s also work arounds for this.

Re: SEO, we don’t push the agenda too much but have never experienced any issues or better/worse performances using CMS versus static. Being mindful of sound SEO practices, slugs, setting up fields for meta titles/descriptions etc may be a way to keep some customisation but still achieve good, sound SEO.

Hope this helps!

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