Are photoshelters templates SEO friendly?

[Majsan]

trying to figure out if photoshelters templates are SEO friendly. We are debating using photoshelter (already an image hosting partner we're using) and Wordpress. Any input much appreciated!

[Majsan]

Thank you! I'll go for Wordpress.

[DmitriiK]

I see. Well, I haven't seen any websites, done in photoshelter rank high, plus just glancing at code of the template from photoshelter gives me shivers. However, if you compare main SEO elements, they are there.

I guess, the thing is that most people use wordpress, which has far more plugins to help you with your SEO, rather than photoshelter, shopify or something else. So, I, personally, would go with wordpress if I had to choose out of CMSs.

[Majsan]

Thanks  Dmitri,

I have seen Wordpress template users rank very highly for competitive search queries, I've seen it first hand over and over. I've seen other templates that eliminates the ability to rank altogether. The question is: How does Photoshelter's templates compare to Wordpress' templates? We are trying to not code the site from scratch. Thank you!

[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

Well, template is a template. As long as you are able to get to the guts of code and change whatever you need to change to make it SEO friendly, there is no difference between any CMS. However, from all my experience, to make wordpress website 100% SEO friendly is pretty much impossible and while trying to achieve that 100% you gonna experience a lot of pain.

So, in short, it depends on how much you can change in given CMS/template. Also depends on what exactly you mean by SEO - if it's just meta descriptions, titles and content, CMS is more than enough. If you gonna go full technical campaign, then you might need to look at custom coded website.

Hope this helps