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WordPress not effective in search engine results? - YahooDeana - 06-04-2014 01:11 AM
A friend who does SEO told me Wordpress sites don't rank well in search engine results.
Anyone know if this is true?
- Jake - 06-04-2014 01:12 AM
There are technical issues that make the platform less than idea for search spiders, but with 17% of the top 1 Million sites using wordpress I have to believe the search engines have special case search procedures for them.
The position of the content in the code of a CMS page is not always ideal, some themes might bury the text more than others.
There are SEO plugins for wordpress that address some of the major issues, they add fields for entering a meta description as well as making many technical tweaks.
The best known plugin All-in-one SEO is daid to be too processor intensive, some hosts don't care for it.
- Marika - 06-04-2014 01:25 AM
Wordpress is great and 4 of my websites are ranked high and get good number of enquiries.
You will need to get good content, and also really depends how competitive your niche is.
- James - 06-04-2014 01:28 AM
Completely not true!
Here's why: Look at some of the largest websites on the web and you'll see tons of them running Wordpress. Shoot, look at quicksprout.com - which gets an estimated 500,000+ visits from search engines / month according to SimilarWeb..
What matters most if the content on your site. Make sure that you use 100% unique and helpful content. Write articles that answer and potential reader's questions. If you do decide to run Wordpress, I would suggest using the Yoast SEO plugin. It's free and is extremely useful when it gets down to the nitty gritty SEO details.
Hope that helped!
-Vinny Polston
- Nitu - 06-04-2014 01:36 AM
I think there is any techincal error and you have done copy nd paste