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My experience with Wordpress vs Drupal

by redflyinghorse
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About 4 or 5 years ago I started playing around with Drupal and made a site for my fraternity. Really more just as an excuse to tinker with Drupal. Quickly my site outranked the Fraternities site and they asked me to manager their site, which I did for about a year or so. I created another site that just has the most random topics. I actually got a job interview as a result. It was for the Director of SEO at Travelocity. After that I decided to take blogging more seriously and decided to make a site focusing on Dallas Entertainment. This time I used Wordpress since so many more people use it. I have had that site up for about two months. The site is RedFlyingHorse.com if you want to check it out.

So this is the issue. I am getting hardly any Google traffic. With the Drupal sites I got a ton of traffic almost right away. With the Dallas site I am not getting any Google love. The only Google traffic is when someone searches for the name of the site.

Could this be the Penguin update? The reason I don't think it is is because I still get a lot of traffic on my random Drupal site even though I have only written two or three articles in the last six months. To quantify that, I got 71.43% of my traffic from Google. My new Dallas site only gets 10.2%. I installed Yoast on the Wordpress site and I have posted on a few other blogs to create backlinks (which I know isn't enough) but I never did that with the Drupal site.

Ideas?
#drupal #experience #seo #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author mosthost
    You probably had a lot more links to the old site. You have very few to the new one it seems.
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    • Profile picture of the author redflyinghorse
      Originally Posted by mosthost View Post

      You probably had a lot more links to the old site. You have very few to the new one it seems.
      I don't think that was it because I only had about 30 links to my Drupal site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cyberdog1
    I always found that Wordpress works better for me and seems to rank pretty quickly for posts as they are pinged upon submission.
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  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    The CMS you use doesn't directly affect your search rankings. Google doesn't prefer either or. Neither is particularly better than the other, and you can make the same mistakes on any of them.

    What's with URL like these ?
    http://redflyinghorse.com/location/b...rd-blues-club/

    You have alot of them. Pages like this are bamboo for Panda. Merge, noindex or beef them up with content, photos of the establishment, reviews, an actual map. Something ..anything than just an address and title tag.

    Also, Anchor text rich forum signatures like that will not help you post-penguin -- especially when your post count increases.
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    • Profile picture of the author redflyinghorse
      Originally Posted by retsek View Post

      You have alot of them. Pages like this are bamboo for Panda. Merge, noindex or beef them up with content, photos of the establishment, reviews, an actual map. Something ..anything than just an address and title tag.

      Also, Anchor text rich forum signatures like that will not help you post-penguin -- especially when your post count increases.
      As far as the location pages, adding content to those is a good idea. I will do that.

      I don't know what you mean by "Anchor text rich forum signatures..."
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      • Profile picture of the author RogueOne
        Originally Posted by redflyinghorse View Post

        I don't know what you mean by "Anchor text rich forum signatures..."
        Your link Dallas Entertainment. Dallas Entertainment is the anchor text. So, being as your site is about Dallas Entertainment that makes it "rich."
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  • Profile picture of the author Mohsin Rasool
    Maybe 4/5 years ago competition in the Google was not that tough, could that be the possibility? Also maybe this topic is more competitive than the topics of your previous drupal sites?

    As I think SEO does not depend a lot on CMS type, be it a Joomla, Drupal or Wordpress.
    Maybe Google needs some more links, site age, and content before they can trust your site, and it is not wordpress specific, if you had gone with Drupal, Google's demands would be same.

    If you still think that its really Wordpress and if you had Drupal you would have faster results.. then here is what I suggest..

    Create another site, with different domain, you can go with other extention, and use Drupal there.. and put same amount of content and links, and see how it goes...

    This will prove what works in your market, and it will also give you better idea that if
    Wordpress or Drupal has any affect on the results....

    With Best Regards,
    Mohsin Rasool
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    Worry less about the software and worry more about building your brand and backlinks.
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