Can wordpress actually be bad for sites if it static?
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Hello, So last year I did rank for my website.
Yet I switched from Adobe Muse to wordpress. I thought it would be great for updating and blobbing if I ever do it.
So I got a theme, and went for it
I have Yoast and that's it for plugins.
But if I take say another couple of years to blog, am I hurting myself with wordpress? Like Google knows I am using wordpress so it expects me to be creating content?
I know its an odd question, just had to ask
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Thanks Dan I really I appreciate it.
All the best,
Tom
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Hi Bermer,
Thank you for the kind words I really appreciate it. That means a lot to me.
When it comes to learning Genesis / StudioPress they is a easy learning curve. Which is made easier in my opinion by their videos shown here.
http://studiopress.tv/genesis-framework-wordpress/
it could be that the new rainmaker system is for you it provides you with everything needed along with showing you how to do everything and provides support for everything in one package. However you have support for all Genesis themes through studio press as well.
http://newrainmaker.com/pilot/
in addition they are the only ones that give you Genesis themes that are already in the format that you see them in the demo. That way you can delete pages you do not wish to have and work backwards in order to make your site look perfect. Replacing their text with yours and their photos with yours. In addition it comes with everything copy blogger has including their marketing scribe content and Authority learning tools
if I were you and wanted not to worry about anything I would try the pilot program if you are comfortable with Genesis all of the hosting companies are going to be excellent.
If you would like to go to the regular route and not have to worry about caching plug-ins and things like that I would strongly suggest managed WordPress hosting. (This is built into rainmaker as well)
Companies like Can offer you built-in caching Get Flywheel, Pressable , WP Engine, PressLabs & Media Temples WordPress hosting all take care of caching through proprietary methods.
That do not involve you having to play around with W3 total cache or any other plug-in for caching.
With that said
web synthesis and pagely each use W3TC but synthesis gives you a upload that sets all the settings for you so that they are exactly how they should be.
Pagely uses W3TC however all the settings are built-in and when you fire up the account and you do not need to worry about changing them.
As far as the easiest one overall I believe you get lot from rainmaker including not having to worry about any plug-in settings for caching. they also
Pressable & Pagely even take care of your DNS hosting settings for you. Get flywheel offers you to your dedicated IP on your own SSD VPS for $15 a month.
All of them will take care of you.
Thanks again.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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On maybe the bad end, if I go with anything, I will be creating the site myself.
I have really leaned towards Genesis ALOT for the last year.
But again the hooks scare me, yet the speed, schema.org markup, and responsive designs are great for me.
I do not want to use many plugins, and being that the speed is good, then maybe I can not use any cache plugins
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Noted, we really appreciate Thomas' participation!
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Wow thank you Thomas. You are great.
i looked at genesis but worried about hooks. I do not need anything fancy, but worry it's not too newbie friendly.
i searched woo themes before but was worried as I noticed some people complaining about updates.
I have never seen anything about genesis being bad. It loads fast and seems to be responsive
I just want good seo and a part of that is readable code.
If any admin reads this- please know that Thomas here has always went above and beyond with every answer. I truly appreciate it
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Hey There
Just wanted to confirm that as far as we know there is no bias towards having WordPress and thus needing to post content more. Google is pretty platform-agnostic when it comes to how they rank sites.
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You may want to look at studio press/copy blogger's new platform that makes using WordPress very easy. It takes care of almost everything that you need to have your website runs smoothly. This is very new to the market but is based on giving you access to everything copy blogger makes which is quite a bit of stuff.
The platform is called rainmaker
http://newrainmaker.com/pilot/
An another reason for Genesis framework is schema is built-in. Along with that being HTML 5 and completely responsive for mobile devices.
http://www.studiopress.com/releases/genesis-framework-20.htm
Sincerely,
Thomas
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I can tell you I have only good things to say about Genesis which is made by studio press as well as Woo themes
If you are having a developer build your site they can create a child theme from either the WordPress generic template that is built-in to WordPress when it is installed.
For approximately USD50 you can purchase Genesis which has a lot more hooks making it easier for many developers to use.
If you are going to build the site based on the theme I would use Woo themes there very simple to use and very well coded.
or
A good example of a site made with Genesis framework is Yoast.com it is a very fast site hosted on websynthesis.com he also sells Genesis-based themes on his website as well.
I recommend putting it through http://tools.pingdom.com if you want to get an idea of how fast Genesis can be.
You can also save money on Woothemes via Moz Perks
All the best,
Thomas
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Thank you for the thoughts. Do you recommend any particular theme? I am using Avada by theme fusion.
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WordPress started a blogging platform but over the years WP evolved itself as a powerful CMS system so no, Google simply does not expect you to write content on regular basis if you are using WP as your CMS.
Keri present his website at the front of you and I have few with me where I update content may be few times a year.
The only thing you should be careful about is the theme you are selecting… if the theme would not be good you might lose your rankings because of it.
Hope this helps!
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Hi Berne,
Like Keri said she uses WordPress and does not produce content constantly on that site.
That would be very different of Google if they thought you had to update your site more frequently because of the CMS you are using.
The part of the algorithm that rewards sites that are constantly putting out high quality content do so regardless of the CMS it is on. The freshness algorithm is for all sites the matter what they are running.
As far as two years down the road I do not believe that Google will change this.
There are so many fantastic sites running on WordPress that rank extremely well and have no problems with Google. In fact when you are running WordPress you are hopefully giving Google static links it is dependent on how you set it up but you may want to read this.
By Dan Shure
http://moz.com/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success
he is a real WordPress expert.
The only difference between a standard HTML website and WordPress is the database. If you are not set up to cache the database along with setup your perm links correctly and all the other things you may want to use a managed WordPress hosting company. If not this is a great plug-in
https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/
http://www.onlinemediamasters.com/w3-total-cache-settings/
Starting at USD15 GetFlywheel.com states on their site they will give you as much help as you need in order to make your plug-ins work correctly. Based on the fact that they give you a SSD VPS to yourself is why I think they can allow any plug-in.,
Pagely, WebSynthesis, Pressable, WPEngine, PressLabs
Media Temple now offers managed WordPress I have very little experience with their platform so I cannot tell you that it is what I would pick however it does not look too bad.
All of them offer service that will help you with WordPress in addition to just hosting I think it is worth the money. In addition they will take care of all the settings needed to make sure you are giving Google static links all the of the time. They can help with quite a few issues that can come up.
I hope this helps you out and I do not believe that there is anything negative positive for you because of the ease of use by running WordPress I think it It is a fantastic platform because of all the developers and how widely adopted is across the web.
All the best,
Thomas
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I use Wordpress for my site (strikemodels . com), yet only post a blog once in a blue moon. It's mainly pages that are fairly static. We've been getting enough orders and traffic to keep my husband busy and off the streets.
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