Thread: Wordpress A Good Blog For Seo?

Having not setup a Joomla or Drupal blog from scratch, how much more painful are they (or are they?) compared to initial WP blog setup for SEO?
Cheers,
James

Originally Posted by bhartzer

Wordpress, out of the box, is not good for SEO. You'll need to do a bunch of tweaks to it in order to make is search engine friendly.

I always add these plugins which really help:
- all in one seo pack
- seo auttomatic core tweaks

Those plugins take care of a lot of issues, and to make it even more seo friendly I usually will go with categories OR tags, not both of them. I always remove anything that creates links to view posts by date, as well. Too much duplicate content is created.

That's 2-3 minutes to setup

NO CMS is good for SEO, at least out-of-the-box versions. I believe I've used ALL of the major CMS's available and honestly I'd go for WP with all the problems/flaws/issues it might have.

Same here. WP all the way.

Very easy to SEO.

Yes wordpress is a good CMS for search engine optimization... Though you need to add some plugins like all-in-one-seo to make it more search engine friendly. Using that plug-in you'll be able to add the meta title, description, and keywords for every page or post you make...

Through wordpress, you're also able to use and modify permalinks to make your site more easily crawled by search engines...

You can also search for sitemap plugins that will enable you to make your own sitemap that you can submit to google webmasters... Moreover, wordpress is a very user-friendly CMS...

So go for WordPress if you plan to succeed in search engine marketing...

Originally Posted by javanx3d

Having not setup a Joomla or Drupal blog from scratch, how much more painful are they (or are they?) compared to initial WP blog setup for SEO?
Cheers,
James

Wordpress is easy to set-up. The big issue I have with Wordpress is the themes have issues and I end up spending a lot of time modifying.

Drupal is great for site architecture especially if you plan on expanding the navigation and moving it to other blocks.

The disadvantage with drupal is that you will need to add a lot of drupal mods and it is somewhat difficult to intergrate adsense.

Bear in mind that WP is becoming bloat ware and a time hog.

• Frequent security fix updates needed
• Plugin update nags
• Theme update nags
• Bloating database due to transients and deleted posts still saved along with revisions of posts
• A thriving open source developer community eager to continually "improve" everything

I like to use WP myself but I hope people don't forget that they can code a static site in the traditional way with HTML, CSS and PHP etc. and it can be optimal for SEO and not a magnet for internet bandits to hack into.

Wordpress 3.0.5 released here here which offers 5 new security/hardening updates.

Originally Posted by Max Pen

I'm also wondering if wordpress as in using it for a blog could become very fast very big of seize.

If you would download a backup of it could it become alot of GB in months?

You can use WordPress › WP-DBManager � WordPress Plugins to optimize the database.

Originally Posted by bogart

Wordpress 3.0.5 released here here which offers 5 new security/hardening updates.



You can use WordPress › WP-DBManager � WordPress Plugins to optimize the database.

Base on my experience, wp can't run in huge DB (for example my site, 1.4gb) cause wp main core issue ....

what happen to my site ? it crash when i try to login admin panel and make post, btw it crash my browser (tested on 3 different broswer and 4 pc)

my current solution is Multiple MYsql DB with one wordpress installation (now on trial stage)

I think WordPress is trying to take over the web.

The "options" database table supports up to 18446744073709551615 option value updates. These are used for settings such as the name of the site and plugin settings.

They are using the BigInt type of Integer that space scientists need to calculate inter-stellar distances etc.

Normally, a MySQL database has a default range of 4,294,967,295 unsigned integers which is more than enough for most bloggers I think where we can actually say the number: 4 billion blah, blah...

So WP clearly aspires to be something more than a blogging platform

And the options themselves are accessed frequently when delivering a page. But each option is looked up by a name rather than an index number.

So if an option value is 1 trillionth on the list, your blog may be a little slow.

So for SEO of the speed of blog content delivery, you need a cache plugin such as WP Super Cache. This provides static HTML to reduce the server load between expiry times of the cached content. And dynamic content may be included in the cached pages via javascript e.g. Adsense This can pull content from a script and insert it into a place on the web page without having WP generate the whole page on each view.

So even if it takes 30s to create the web page on first viewing, the next view should load fast.

It is indeed that word press helps a lot in your search engine positioning. Although if it only optimized with proper seo plugins.