Does blogger.com stink for SEO purposes?
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Three different SEO guys suggest moving my blog to another platform. " I think migrating to a more robust CMS platform like Drupal or Wordpress would be a wise decision." But, they never say why moving would benefit SEO. My blog is on a custom domain, has lots of original content and has decent organic traffic to begin with. I think I have other SEO issues to deal with before bothering with a new platform. Does blogger stink for SEO? Why?
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Thanks Nitin and Moosa! I appreciate your replies.
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I'll second Moosa here, very nicely explained.
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Eric, If I would be at the place of your consultant, I would have suggest you Wordpress (not drupel though). I don’t think there is a problem with blogger platform but things are really difficult in blogger platform whereas in Wordpress things are really easy.
Let’s say you need to set customer Meta description for a blog post in blogger (not saying it’s impossible) but as compare to this in WP all you need is a Yoast plugin and even a person without acode knowledge will do that.
Another reason I will suggest you is that I have seen very few blogger blogs ranking well in search engines as compare to WP. And another important reason why I will suggest that while back Matt Cutt recommends WP over blogger.
I am sure any SEO with a development background can give you indepth reasons for this.
Hope this helps.
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