Does wordpress hurt search engine rankings?
A couple of years ago, I started building one of my websites the hard way (writing HTML and simple PHP myself). But as my traffic grew, I decided to give Wordpress a try.
The by-hand pages I did have pretty good rankings in Google. (#1 out of millions of search results for several of my key words.) But the wordpress pages don’t appear to be doing as well. … Does word press clutter up the code and hurt rankings? Or is it just a coincidence that the pages that are doing best are the ones I haven’t moved to wordpress yet?
Thanks j k … I installed the SEO plugin a while ago but haven’t had time to go back and update all of my pages with it. I will focus on that next time I have time for maintenance type work.
Tagged with: clutter • coincidence • google • key words • maintenance type • seo • traffic • word press
Filed under: Search Engine Traffic
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You need to use SEO optimized URLs, other than that, WordPress does not really affect ranking negatively.
It’s my experience that search engines love Wordpress.
I do suggest that you install the All in one SEO plugin for Wordpress and make sure that there are keywords and descriptions your posts and pages.
You have updated your website and this will require indexation from any search engine, so all you new pages will probably be read and indexed from any search engine against the old ones that are there already.
Wordpress do an amazing job when talking about search engine optimization. Make sure your wordpress site is fully configured with the correct plugins to provide this as well.
Note, search engines will count:
1. age of the site
2. age of the page
3. content of the page
5. site map (plugin – google sitemap)
6. some, still use the meta tag descriptions, so make sure that you have those worked out (there is a plugin for this).
7. url format – If you are using pages or unique posts, you can format the url permalinks on the settings to be displayed in a better way so search engines can better retrieve it.
If you want some more tools, use:
1. Google Analytics
2. Google Webmaster Tools
3. Google site optmization
4. http://www.orangesubmit.com
5. http://www.websitegrader.com