Wordpress for adsense site

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Hello,

Anybody using wordpress for adsense-oriented sites?

I heard the google search engine machine likes wordpress sites.

But when I look at the code, there is a ton of code on the page. I thought it's bad for search engine purposes to have a lot of code on the page if it can be avoided.

Any ideas on this?

I'm kind of having fun setting up a new wordpress site. But I could hand-code the site if I had to.
#adsense #site #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    What's magical about a wordpress site?

    Google could care less what you use, only the finished product.
    You can use anything.

    The code you see is for your browser. Has little to do, except for
    text and a few tags, with google.

    I like hand coding, using html, php, but do use some boxed fantastico scripts.

    If you hand coded a site like wordpress does, your code be just as large.

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    • Profile picture of the author clickbump
      Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

      Google could care less what you use, only the finished product.
      You can use anything.
      I could not AGREE more with what you've just said :-)
      Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

      The code you see is for your browser. Has little to do, except for
      text and a few tags, with google.
      I could not DISAGREE more with what you've just said :-(

      Code matters.

      Title Tags matter.

      Heading tags matter.

      Content-to-markup ratios matter.

      Google is a blind user. All they have to go by, besides the quality and quantity of your inbound links, is your markup; The stuff under the hood that most people never see, warts and all, it matters.
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  • Profile picture of the author christopher jon
    But when I look at the code, there is a ton of code on the page. I thought it's bad for search engine purposes to have a lot of code on the page if it can be avoided.
    If it's poorly written bloated code it could cause problems due to load speed or confusing SE bots but if a wordpress theme is written properly you shouldn't notice much of a difference between a wordpress based site or a static site.

    HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, it's all the same in the end and the code for a wordpress theme can be written well just as a static page can be written poorly.

    The problem with a lot of wordpress themes, they are written by web designers and not internet marketers so there is often a lack of emphasis on SEO or the specific needs of internet marketers.

    Designers are happy if everything looks pretty, marketers are happy when the theme runs fast and ranks well.
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    • Profile picture of the author beginner warrior
      Thanks.

      This is straight-from-the-wordpress site stuff.

      I'll just throw it up there and see what happens. I'll pay attention to the URL structure, and at worst I can just rebuild it by hand with cleaner code.

      There's definitely an insane amount of code in there. But I'm not sure if some of that code is actually good in some weird sort of way.
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