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Wordpress or Html Sites Better For SEO?

by Hafiz Zo
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Anybody can help me out here?

Wordpress or html sites better for seo?

Why?

And if i use wordpress what must i need for pluggins?

and if html is good for seo, what do i need to have in my html sites to get super and highly optimized?

Appreciate the help. Please help me out...

Thank you.
#html #seo #sites #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author netkid
    Hafiz,

    Wordpress is the best for SEO....better than HTML.

    First of all HTML takes too much trouble to code and the learning curve may even discourage you from keeping SEO optimized. Also, if you will have to make changes constantly to keep attracting search engines.

    Wordpress by nature has several "built in" functions that keep attracting search engines. You have the "ping" function, categories and tags, the ability for the user to add content daily, RSS feeds, user generated content when someone makes a comment. The only other plugin you would need is "ALL IN ONE SEO," which enables you to add further keywords and keyword phrases and Meta descriptions. There is just so much more Wordpress can do all at once to "beef" up your site.

    Hope that helps,

    Bruce
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    • Profile picture of the author Hafiz Zo
      Originally Posted by netkid View Post

      Hafiz,

      Wordpress is the best for SEO....better than HTML.

      First of all HTML takes too much trouble to code and the learning curve may even discourage you from keeping SEO optimized. Also, if you will have to make changes constantly to keep attracting search engines.

      Wordpress by nature has several "built in" functions that keep attracting search engines. You have the "ping" function, categories and tags, the ability for the user to add content daily, RSS feeds, user generated content when someone makes a comment. The only other plugin you would need is "ALL IN ONE SEO," which enables you to add further keywords and keyword phrases and Meta descriptions. There is just so much more Wordpress can do all at once to "beef" up your site.

      Hope that helps,

      Bruce

      Thank you so much Bruce. i am so much enlightened now. So wordpress is the way to go...
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    • Profile picture of the author Scott Million
      Originally Posted by netkid View Post

      Hafiz,

      Wordpress is the best for SEO....better than HTML.

      First of all HTML takes too much trouble to code and the learning curve may even discourage you from keeping SEO optimized. Also, if you will have to make changes constantly to keep attracting search engines.

      Wordpress by nature has several "built in" functions that keep attracting search engines. You have the "ping" function, categories and tags, the ability for the user to add content daily, RSS feeds, user generated content when someone makes a comment. The only other plugin you would need is "ALL IN ONE SEO," which enables you to add further keywords and keyword phrases and Meta descriptions. There is just so much more Wordpress can do all at once to "beef" up your site.

      Hope that helps,

      Bruce
      Depends what you want to accomplish. All the above can easily be put into HTML if you can 'read it'... or recognize it, even just a little.

      When it comes down to getting something to act how you want it to, html is much easier to customize.

      To be frank, there is way too much hype and fluff about onpage seo features for WordPress... it's not that hard to optimize a site and it's amazing how many people get it wrong even in WordPress.
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  • Profile picture of the author patJ
    Google will not care if your page is an html document or a wordpress page. It all depends on what you put inside the document. A wordpress post consists of nothing but HTML code. There's nothing magical about wordpress itself that makes it better for SEO. It is simply that wordpress (generally) lays out the data in a way the search engines like. That is not always true though and it depends on the theme you are using.. some are horrible for seo.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hafiz Zo
      Originally Posted by patJ View Post

      Google will not care if your page is an html document or a wordpress page. It all depends on what you put inside the document. A wordpress post consists of nothing but HTML code. There's nothing magical about wordpress itself that makes it better for SEO. It is simply that wordpress (generally) lays out the data in a way the search engines like. That is not always true though and it depends on the theme you are using.. some are horrible for seo.
      Thank you patJ!

      i guess so...what you say make total sense.

      So wordpress is better i suppose.

      It seems better though. Easier than html...

      if i have two sites, similar content, meta tags, etc, which one will rank higher? wordpress or html?


      Thank you so much patJ for your genuine input! :p
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  • Profile picture of the author jelvidge
    There is some nice functionality built into wordpress (and through simple plugins) that can really automate how "seo friendly" your website is. I would use wordpress, with the "ALL IN ONE SEO" plugin mentioned above as it will save you a lot of time that you can better spend working on your content and marketing. Good luck!

    Jared
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    • Profile picture of the author Hafiz Zo
      Originally Posted by jelvidge View Post

      There is some nice functionality built into wordpress (and through simple plugins) that can really automate how "seo friendly" your website is. I would use wordpress, with the "ALL IN ONE SEO" plugin mentioned above as it will save you a lot of time that you can better spend working on your content and marketing. Good luck!

      Jared
      Thank you Jared!

      WORDPRESS it is!
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  • Profile picture of the author Aaron Moser
    Here's 5 reasons off the top of my head why WordPress is better than HTML for SEO.

    1) Automatic pings tell the search engines you have new content
    2) Most WP themes use the Silo structure to organize pages
    3) Automatic RSS feeds
    4) Instant Site Map generator plugins
    5) SEO plugins to maximize page rank and internal linkbuilding

    Sure there are scripts that can be installed on an HTML website that will pretty much do the same stuff as above but not nearly as quick and user friendly.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hafiz Zo
      Originally Posted by Aaron Moser View Post

      Here's 5 reasons off the top of my head why WordPress is better than HTML for SEO.

      1) Automatic pings tell the search engines you have new content
      2) Most WP themes use the Silo structure to organize pages
      3) Automatic RSS feeds
      4) Instant Site Map generator plugins
      5) SEO plugins to maximize page rank and internal linkbuilding

      Sure there are scripts that can be installed on an HTML website that will pretty much do the same stuff as above but not nearly as quick and user friendly.

      I am begining to be convinced that WORDPRESS is way superior. lol...

      Any html fans out there?

      Soon html sites may be in less demand. this would also include minisites, salespages, etc.

      wordpress seems superior to me now.

      Thank you Aaron!
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      • Profile picture of the author checkback
        Yes, Wordpress would be my choice for its SEO advantages.

        Good Luck.

        Jim
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  • Profile picture of the author John Burton
    Wordpress is definitely better than a standard HTML site.

    Use the following Wordpress plugins for excelent SEO -

    Google XML site map
    All in one SEO pack

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  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
    HTML site or Wordpress - Both can bring the same exact results, SEO has nothing to do with the system you use, it has to do with you doing the SEO. Yes wordpress has plugins to make it easier but an html site can do the exact same thing.

    James
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  • Profile picture of the author flobaby
    Yeah, I don't get this comparison myself. I build websites with html and because it's "harder to learn" doesn't make it worse for SEO, that's an unrelated issue. I guess if you don't know how to build websites, wordpress is better, but if you do, it doesn't make a whit of difference.
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  • Profile picture of the author yoyokits
    What about another CMS like Drupal and Joomla? Is still wordpress is the best?
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    • Profile picture of the author Binggo
      Originally Posted by yoyokits View Post

      What about another CMS like Drupal and Joomla? Is still wordpress is the best?
      I think wordpress still the one. It's easy to customize.There's a lot reference for this cms. You can create template based on anything the way you want. It's really cool.
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  • Profile picture of the author 7_8_shortcuts
    Originally Posted by Hafiz Zo View Post

    Anybody can help me out here?

    Wordpress or html sites better for seo?

    Why?

    And if i use wordpress what must i need for pluggins?

    and if html is good for seo, what do i need to have in my html sites to get super and highly optimized?

    Appreciate the help. Please help me out...

    Thank you.

    Here's something to consider...

    the purpose of your site...

    For example:

    Are you looking to create an

    - AdSense® site?

    or

    - Affiliate review site?

    WordPress generally is great for SEO... but the "look" of your site matters too.

    If you are going for an AdSense site, the conventional wisdom among SEO/AdSense® experts is that they get better click-thru rates if the sites "look" like simple static HTML sites, with the ad-block at the top of the page just below the headline of your article...

    Note the emphasis on *look*...

    In other words... you can always use a WordPress blog to control your content and get the SEO benefits an such BUT still use a theme that makes it look as if it was a static website.

    If you are going for an Affiliate review-type site, then you can have a more dynamic look and for example encourage user comments, but I would still use a theme that doesn't look like a typical blog template...

    And here's an interesting story...

    Frank Kern once mentioned that people have different mindsets depending on whether they they are visiting a blog (equals "entertainment", "discussion", "fun")

    or...

    a tightly themed "static" mini-site where the focus is on one main subject

    (because... that's where your visitor may find exactly what they are looking for --> relevant information --> relevant ads --> click-click...)
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  • Profile picture of the author Austin Delaney
    WordPress › All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugins

    There's a billion others but you can't go far wrong with All-in-One SEO to begin with.
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  • Profile picture of the author Link Builder
    Wordpress automates SEO HTML which is why I use it for 90% of my sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author nazri97
    Yes wordpress is better and easy to set a website than using html code.
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  • Profile picture of the author RebeccaL
    I find that my few static sites do well, but the work involved is just not worth it. It can all be automated with Wordpress and I just dont see the advantage of going static anymore.
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    • Profile picture of the author WareTime
      Originally Posted by RebeccaL View Post

      I find that my few static sites do well, but the work involved is just not worth it. It can all be automated with Wordpress and I just dont see the advantage of going static anymore.
      YMMV. Templates, php includes, page builders such as xsitepro all make creating static sites easier and less time consuming. For sheer speed of getting a site up, yes, Wordpress + Fantastico at my ISP is hard to beat. But I like sites that sell, and for me the magazine theme, or traditional blog formats don't cut it. By the time I've customized WP to do what I want, I could build a static site and not have the security concerns.

      I see no one talked about the horrid security track record wordpress has, I guess that must all be fixed now.
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    • Profile picture of the author 7_8_shortcuts
      Originally Posted by RebeccaL View Post

      I find that my few static sites do well, but the work involved is just not worth it. It can all be automated with Wordpress and I just dont see the advantage of going static anymore.
      I agree with that. It's also easier to manage everything with WordPress and with the right theme and plugins you can get the benefits of both static looking websites and the power of dynamic sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author projek001
    Hafiz, Wordpress is the winner against HTML site in SEO.

    Didn't you ever heard or read that Google loves Wordpress.
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    • Profile picture of the author WareTime
      Originally Posted by projek001 View Post

      Didn't you ever heard or read that Google loves Wordpress.
      All the time. Oft repeated amongst those that don't know how to build a proper site, and for them it's the truth as they don't know how to build a site that ranks so a cms that gets them 80% the way there is a huge win.
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  • Profile picture of the author worcaz
    Using wordpress is highly recommended for SEO. Most of the reason are Google love Wordpress and free plugins are easily to install in your Wordpress.If you are serious to use wordpress, my recommend plugins are:
    - All in One SEO Pack
    - Google XML Sitemaps
    - Robots Meta (by Joost de Valk)
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    I already use for my blog and it works.Good luck!
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Hi Hafiz,

      This is one of the funniest threads I have read in a while. Everyone who said HTML is better than Wordpress for SEO is wrong, But wait, everyone who said that Wordpress is better than HTML is also wrong. :confused:

      Why? This is a trick question.

      Wordpress creates all pages as HTML therefore it cannot be better, or worse than itself. Wordpress is a tool that is used to create HTML, there are many other tools, so you might ask which tool or CMS is better for creating HTML, but you cannot ask if a CMS is better than HTML since it is just a tool. How you use your tools determines how good your HTML will be for SEO, not which tool you use.

      Thanks for amusing us!
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      • Profile picture of the author WareTime
        So then dburk since all sites are html, they should all rank the same. The number one site is html and my site is html, therefore...

        This thread is about a site built using wordpress or one built with html via hand coding, dreamweaver or other static site and which would be better for ranking.

        Google doesn't love any technology for making sites more than any other, it's just that for a lot of folks, WP manages to make less mistakes than they make on their own building a site and therefore ranks better than "html" for them, but a lot of people parrot that WP is the best way to go for all. For some it is. It would be helpful if the OP's of these this or that threads would give a full blown description of the type of site they want to build, how much time they want to spend on it, an what the criteria are going forward.

        I promise not to participate in the identical to this thread that will no doubt start tomorrow about 10 posts above this one.
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      • Profile picture of the author 7_8_shortcuts
        Originally Posted by dburk View Post

        Wordpress creates all pages as HTML therefore it cannot be better, or worse than itself. Wordpress is a tool that is used to create HTML, there are many other tools, so you might ask which tool or CMS is better for creating HTML, but you cannot ask if a CMS is better than HTML since it is just a tool. How you use your tools determines how good your HTML will be for SEO, not which tool you use.

        Thanks for amusing us!
        Good one :-) Thanks for summarizing it. I wanted to somehow say the same thing, but was running around in circles. Wordpress really cannot be better than itself, not possible!
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    • Profile picture of the author Nail Yener
      If you know what you are doing, you can rank better with HTML. That's a conclusion on my research not experience. However, if you don't know how to optimize an HTML webpage, it is better to go with Wordpress. The good thing about Wordpress and what it makes so attractive is that it has many built in seo features and plugins.
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  • Profile picture of the author Solidsnake
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    Originally Posted by Hafiz Zo View Post

    Anybody can help me out here?

    Wordpress or html sites better for seo?

    Why?

    And if i use wordpress what must i need for pluggins?

    and if html is good for seo, what do i need to have in my html sites to get super and highly optimized?

    Appreciate the help. Please help me out...

    Thank you.
    Wordpress with the help of All-in-one SEO pack is the better compared to plain html page.
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  • Profile picture of the author evertd
    All the wordpress fans are still ignoring the question raised about the security issues with wordpress. How many have had their blogs hacked? I know I have.
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  • Profile picture of the author tejas
    @evertd, you are answering an altogether different question, i thought the thread was to discuss SEO

    Apart from pinging search engines, tagging, etc which help give WordPress a better performance over HTML, there are a couple of other reasons why blogs may be useful for SEO
    1. Google and other search engines have limited bandwidth, using conditional gets is recommended so that search engines only update changed content. HTML doesn't support this but WordPress does. So search engines are likely to crawl the site more often as they don't have to download the entire site in the case of wordpress
    2. A lot of people use comments on others blogs. Some blogs have plugins like commentluv which post a additional link to the latest post of the commentor
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      Which is better?

      Both....

      You can do well with either type site - it depends on what you put into it.

      I will say I've never met a person who builds their own sites who couldn't use WP - but I've met a lot of WP users who have no idea how to build a site.

      Just a thought - good to know how to do both and then decide which you prefer.

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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    After sorta browsing the responses the big question I never saw asked was...

    why type of site do you want to build?

    Both a static HTML page and a CMS site like wordpress both have their advantages. Are you going to be continually adding new content or is this a single page sales page?

    Wordpress offers a lot of wiz-bang wizardy and neato plugins but can also be an over-bloated hog.

    Everyone seems to be in love with All-In-One SEO, but really, everything it does can be changed in a themes code and if you write your own HTML pages or WP themes you can set all of that SEO stuff from the start and not have to bother with additional plug-ins bogging down your site.

    In the end, no matter what you use, all the SE's see is the final HTML so it really makes no difference what you use or how you do it.

    You can pick your tools and then base your work around them or decide what you want to do and pick the tools that fit your needs.

    so, once again...

    what type of site do you want to build?

    then pick the tools to make it happen
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    • Profile picture of the author 7_8_shortcuts
      I also just usually change few small bits in my theme to fix the most important on-page-SEO elements, because I just prefer to put texts and content in a CMS and not deal with static templates.

      That's even for simple small sites I build... and I am actually a programmer and HTML is not the slightest problem. I just like the CMS capabilities of WordPress. That's why I use it... although my sites usually don't look like blogs. WP is just a cool CMS in my opinion.
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  • Profile picture of the author WareTime
    Originally Posted by Hafiz Zo View Post


    And if i use wordpress what must i need for pluggins?
    Get the plugin that adds security. It ships with low security by default.
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    • Profile picture of the author warrior123
      Neither one is better than the other -- it all depends on the structure of the site and your on-site and off-site SEO optimization.
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  • Profile picture of the author Geraldm
    I don't know if this has been discussed yet or not, but you can easily cloak your post pages to look like html pages simply by changing the Permalinks to Custom Structure: /%postname%.html
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Million
    Oh, here we go baby... lol. I use both, but mostly html. I like the control, and you can make html act like WP with PHP...

    It depends what I'm doing. If I need a support blog or a membership site I'll throw up a WP blog or add it to an html site. If I want a high converting sales letter, lead generator, adsense, or affiliate commission generator I use html.

    However, there are a lot themes that mimic simple layouts now... both can give you headaches, depending on what you want to do!
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Million
    Originally Posted by Hafiz Zo View Post

    Anybody can help me out here?

    Wordpress or html sites better for seo?

    Why?

    And if i use wordpress what must i need for pluggins?

    and if html is good for seo, what do i need to have in my html sites to get super and highly optimized?

    Appreciate the help. Please help me out...

    Thank you.
    Whichever you go with just make sure your keyword phrase is in the following (if possible):

    Title Tags

    Header Tags

    Meta Keywords

    Meta Description

    Mentioned a couple to a few times in the body

    Note: If possible, put in a few LSI keywords. Don't overthink this if you get confused when you're looking up "LSI Keywords". Many are naturally placed when you write the content.

    Then link back to that page from other sites with that keyword.

    Even if you screw all your onpage factors, you can still rank for your keyword by building backlinks with the right anchor text.

    Just look up "click here" in Google. Look at the source code and tell me where "click here" is located
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  • Profile picture of the author sengko
    Originally Posted by Hafiz Zo View Post


    Wordpress or html sites better for seo?

    Why?
    - It depends, the most important is your website structure and backlinks if you want to play SEO game.

    - Choose html site if you plan to create few pages static website; go for wordpress if you plan to add contents for your website in future and long-term seo plan.

    And if i use wordpress what must i need for pluggins?
    - all in one seo
    - Google sitemap
    - Google analytics
    - MBP ping optimiser

    these are the basic plugins to go for a niche sites.

    and if html is good for seo, what do i need to have in my html sites to get super and highly optimized?
    - Your main keyword on the title and post headline in H1 tag
    - Clean theme are advisable for fast loading.

    Appreciate the help. Please help me out...

    Thank you.
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