Does Wordpress have an edge when it comes to SEO
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I am here to know does WordPress provide an edge to rank your website or blog pages some extra layer of profit to gain organic traffic from google search engine. I have seen many people has started there website from word-press and later on move to PHP or own website building with the available tools in the markets. If anyone has knowledge about it please do share your thoughts on above query.
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as long as the website is well designed, and you follow white hat SEO best practices, it doesn't matter if the website is Wordpress or not. having said that we just got a Bristol garden room company on to page one, and we using Wordpress it was a bit easier to improve the onsite SEO, such as meta titles etc
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@Dtracer
I think one thing that everyone here is missing is that you can use Wordpress for a site like Green Street Solar made with Drupal 8, and did required heavy code customization to do so... I went on WordPress and in one day ended up with Green Planet Solar Systems by myself with Wordpress and it's almost as fancy. If It take 5 weeks to pump out an Amazing Piece of Web Designer Solar Glory and one day for Green Planet Solar Systems, then I can make 8 -10 solar site to back-link together and run link-juice through or adds While I build my Solar Hot Water Heater Domain Authority up.How is that not a "significant" advantage?
Green Street Solar was the already made website Drupal 8. In 8 hours, over night I made Green Planet Solar Systems.
I said that in the Reverse order and didn't link to Green Street to give it more of a solar led street light bulb Moment.
Google even says that they just look at content management systems as a way to generate pages not a measure of the pages generated.
There is no way I could help all the amazing solar installers near me, much less their solar providers near me! suppliers without Wordpress and free time for creative back link generation.
Yah feel me?
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Here's a video from the Google search team that speaks about CMS. I think WordPress is better in the sense of cleanliness of the code compared to other content management systems.
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While there is no TEQUNICAL advantage of using wordpress for SEO over other CMS, the variety of tools you can use to manipulate google rankings that are available as plugins is staggering.
For instance, calendar plug-ins that can rank for Google Events page snippets right off the bat...
Also, the ability to make blogger websites and google my business website content into "Google Drive Stacks" is very easy with wordpress.
They have plugins that literally will go from for instance Website A and scan Website B and scan a their blog, change the content related to website B to Website A and post on a set schedule...Automatically.. for as many sites as you want...
David from WebDUH Design Unite Humanity
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@praveenyadav0915 said in Does Wordpress have an edge when it comes to SEO:
does WordPress provide an edge to rank your website or blog pages some extra layer of profit to gain organic traffic from google search engine.
NO just because it's WordPress Website, Google does not say we will give this priority over another. That would be against everything Google stands for as well as completely insane for them; why would they do it? It would make them any money, so Google wouldn't have any reason to give a URL hosted on WordPress preference over a URL hosted on something else.
Now, this is very important to understand as long as the URL hosted on another CMS is identical to the URL hosted on WordPress CMS, meaning the content code to text ratio, page speed, URL length, etc. is identical, then Google would treat them identically.
However, look at certain content management systems. They don't give you as much flexibility as WordPress. They might be slower than WordPress, depending on how you set up your WordPress site and how they're set up. They may require URLs to be fitted with extra parameters for no reason.
So the advantage, in my opinion, is that WordPress gives you the capabilities to choose your own hosting and tweak every page template, so the code is unique to that page. It gives you more capabilities than most other content management systems and has a staggering amount of developers and high-quality hosting providers behind it. to provide a higher SEO value to the site.In what you can do with the website, providing that you control the hosting, you control the entire CMS, other self-hosted CMS, Or even less popular CMS products that have extreme limitations as to what you can do. In comparison to WordPress.
WordPress is a very fast and popular CMS, meaning over 20,000 developers are always working on word press plug-ins or sites. This gives it a huge advantage over other products that developers are not focusing on nearly as much.
One of the best places to learn search engine optimization is from a dear friend of mine who passed Bill Slawski
https://www.seobythesea.com/category/learning-seo/“Understand your audiences and who they provide goods and services to. The better you understand what your customers are doing (interview their customer service and salespeople), and that can help set you up for success.”
“Know the words that your customers will search with to find your pages and expect to see on your pages.”Bill Slawski
Another is from my friend Koray at Holistic SEO
https://www.holisticseo.digital/theoretical-seo/And yet another is Sean Anderson at hoboSEO
https://www.hobo-web.co.uk/how-to-get-google-to-crawl-and-index-your-website-fully/ -
@praveenyadav0915 said in Does Wordpress have an edge when it comes to SEO:
WordPress proporciona una ventaja para clasificar su sitio web
WordPress uses PHP, it does not mean that you have a website made with wordpress or other platforms, you have better positioning in browsers but it will depend a lot on the content, the loading speed, the adaptability to phone screens etc etc.
Yes, it is a good tool to start having your own website or blog, since it gives you everything you need to start and the best thing is that it is open source.
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