Is there any negative SEO effect when using Wordpress for your Blog?
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I have a site entirely done in html, no CMS used. The blog page however, is wordpress. Wondering if this will effect us negatively in terms of SEO, having the blog that is linked to our site, a wordpress site. My gut is absolutely not, but the questions was asked....what do you think?
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Yes, the blog is just built with wordpress, the site is not built with wordpress. It's straight html, so....www.businessname.com/blog.....
I think I got it now from all of your responses! Thank you!
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To answer your question I am using a few assumptions. If you have a html website and a wordpress blog I am guessing that your blog is a subdomain or a wordpress.com domain. Using either of these scenarios the simple answer if yes it will affect your rankings.
Both a sub domain and a wordpress.com blog are treated as separate websites to your main website. To really take advantage of any blog activity, deep backlinks, SEO etc etc you should be trying to post your blogs to your main website i.e www.yourdomain.com/blog. All roads lead to "ROME", this gives you the best opportunity to increase your domain and social internet standing. Hope this makes sense and helps.
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"having the blog that is linked to our site, a wordpress site."
Based on this sentence, I am not sure if your blog is using Wordpress software to publish content on your site (e.g. www.yoursite.com/blog/) or if your blog is hosted on Wordpress.com (e.g. www.yourblog.wordpress.com). If it is hosted on Wordpress.com there are some issues because your blog is on the Wordpress.com domain instead of your domain. This means that if your blog earns any links that Wordpress.com receives credit for those links instead of your site and your efforts are diluted. If you are using the Wordpress software to run your blog on your own domain, that is a great way to go and there are a lot of SEO benefits (such super easy implementation of title tags and SEO friendly URLs).
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WordPress if done the right way is as good if not better then just HTML everyone will have a option and I think you will find Wordpress is a outstanding choice with many benefits over coding when Google wants fresh content it will make your life eazyer I would make sure you have a great web host (Wordpress or not) some good picks if you are on godaddy are Firehost , Pair, bluebox.net, iweb for Wordpress only WPEngine, Zippykid, websynthesis, Pagely & PressLabs are great hope this helps,
tom
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I have three sites with wordpress blogs. if you have them set up correctly and do proper SEO they can perform great.
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Using a CMS like WordPress is not a problem to organic search engine rankings as long as you maintain unique and related meta descriptions and titles to all of the pages of the blog. Below two articles will be useful for you to start with.
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I run my site like that. / (magento) and /blog (wordpress) and /froum (vbulletin). You have NOTHING to worry about.
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