Wordpress E-Commerce Stores Rank Lower?

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I see that many people use Wordpress for their e-commerce stores, have you noticed that Wordpress based sites rank lower or are harder to rank than sites using OsCommerce, BigCommerce, etc?
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Marcoux
    I use Joomla, its way more intuitive on the backend and support is phenomenal.
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  • Profile picture of the author hndsign
    i don't think so. i have wordpress site for ecommerce, and i have good position on google with my niche. you just optimize it
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  • Profile picture of the author anandshaw
    what makes you think so, can you share with me your findings?
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    • Profile picture of the author hndsign
      Originally Posted by anandshaw View Post

      what makes you think so, can you share with me your findings?
      because i have ecommerce site with wp. and it have good ranking on google.
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  • Profile picture of the author lotsofsnow
    This sounds a little vague and too general. Please give specifics.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jonet Bradley
    Thanks for the responses--I currently have several Wordpress sites and the rankings fluctuate up and down on those (I know this happens) but I also have another site with BC and the rankings on that one seem to be far better with much less work.

    I believe that some of the platforms such as BC, Joomla, etc might have better back-end setups that makes the whole SEO process a little easier and was just wondering if anyone else has noticed this?
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  • I think wordpress is actually SMILED upon in the rankings.

    It's why I tend to flock to it. There are some very robust SEO plugins that I utilize that help maximize my SEO effectiveness on-site..

    However, I do find it incredibly ironic that there are some platforms (like blogger) that NEVER rank high on Google - even though it's a Google product.

    Weird.
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  • Profile picture of the author anandshaw
    Jonet, How old are these sites?
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  • Profile picture of the author seostar
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    Its true (This is purely based on my experience. I don't have any other valid points to prove this)

    IMHO, Google considers wordpress sites as blog/general websites. For Commercial Intent keywords Google may be giving importance to eCommerce platforms than WP.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jonet Bradley
      Originally Posted by seostar View Post

      Its true (This is purely based on my experience. I don't have any other valid points to prove this)

      IMHO, Google considers wordpress sites as blog/general websites. For Commercial Intent keywords Google may be giving importance to eCommerce platforms than WP.

      This is exactly what I am experiencing and the reason why I posted this, I am not sure if it is a SURE thing but from my testing I do believe that G does factor this into it's algorithm when ranking sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Silas Hart
    I used to use WP for about 200 niche stores, very easy to manage and for the most part, did well in regards to the relationship between my sites and Google and other SE's.
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  • Profile picture of the author ird986
    Originally Posted by Jonet Bradley View Post

    I see that many people use Wordpress for their e-commerce stores, have you noticed that Wordpress based sites rank lower or are harder to rank than sites using OsCommerce, BigCommerce, etc?
    They are harder to rank I find but this can be a problem solvable if there is a clear and well tuned link building strategy in place.
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