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Is google targeting wordpress sites now?

by opportunist86
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My site stylishblinds ranked top in my country and and 8th worldwide. I left IM for sometimes and now it has completely lost its ranking. No matter what I do it doesn't rank well.
Is it happening only with wordpress based sites? because it seems all of my wordpress based sites lost ranking.
#google #sites #targeting #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author JamesLennon
    Wordpress sites are stupidly slow to load and speed has become a major factor in search rankings.
    This may be one of the reasons
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    • Profile picture of the author Icematikx
      Originally Posted by Fixnotic View Post

      Wordpress sites are stupidly slow to load and speed has become a major factor in search rankings.
      This may be one of the reasons
      Ridiculous. WordPress is global, and WordPress is actually extremely quick to load with caching plugins & a decent host. Site's load slow when their on run down shared hosting packages.
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      • Profile picture of the author dcary13
        Originally Posted by Icematikx View Post

        Ridiculous. WordPress is global, and WordPress is actually extremely quick to load with caching plugins & a decent host. Site's load slow when their on run down shared hosting packages.
        Anything is fast with caching and a decent host, thats the sense of that combo.

        The question is, why you should need that for a CMS, which is doing such trivial things as showing some articles out of a sql table.

        I have an own framework which i use for wordpress like sites outspeeding wordpress by factor 10 and more - which is easy to do for any average programmer.
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        • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
          Originally Posted by dcary13 View Post

          The question is, why you should need that for a CMS, which is doing such trivial things as showing some articles out of a sql table.
          The underlying code is not pretty but I have found Adobe muse easier to get what I want done than wordpress and no coding is required. I am becoming tired of bloated CMS myself . Really people have lost site of why CMS were invented. They were for sites with a lot of content but now you see people struggling to usesome wordpress theme for a one page saleletter site which is just crazy.
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    • Profile picture of the author Auctiondebteliminator
      Originally Posted by Fixnotic View Post

      Wordpress sites are stupidly slow to load and speed has become a major factor in search rankings.
      This may be one of the reasons
      If your site is 'slow to load' then you haven't done anything to 'speed it up'.

      How about installing a caching plugin?

      Hmm?

      You can do lots of stuff to improve your websites. Especially on Wordpress
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Originally Posted by opportunist86 View Post

    My site stylishblinds ranked top in my country and and 8th worldwide. I left IM for sometimes and now it has completely lost its ranking. No matter what I do it doesn't rank well.
    Is it happening only with wordpress based sites? because it seems all of my wordpress based sites lost ranking.
    Did you ever stop and think that maybe "Pakistan" and "spamming" were
    the main problems?

    Paul
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    • Profile picture of the author opportunist86
      Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

      Did you ever stop and think that maybe "Pakistan" and "spamming" were
      the main problems?

      Paul
      What do you mean by pakistan being a problem? Because spamming has never been a thing.
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      • Profile picture of the author dcary13
        Originally Posted by opportunist86 View Post

        What do you mean by pakistan being a problem? Because spamming has never been a thing.
        Yes, and never any copytheft problem too.
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    • Profile picture of the author Rehmat
      Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

      Did you ever stop and think that maybe "Pakistan" and "spamming" were
      the main problems?
      MagicSubmitter is not a product of Pakistan Paul :p. I agree that spamming may hurt your ranking but "Pakistan" can't . I also belong to Pakistan and have never spamed any forum.

      Now coming to the topic, how WordPress can decrease your ranking where even a VERY BASIC webmaster can do a good SEO using plugins with WordPress. OP, you must have seen a beautiful dream, because your site is ranked at 9,574,817 and its PR is 2... How can you say this stupid statement that you topped in Pakistan? I monitor the local rankings always and seeing your blog with "misspelled" title for the first time
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      • Profile picture of the author opportunist86
        Originally Posted by Rehmat View Post

        MagicSubmitter is not a product of Pakistan Paul :p. I agree that spamming may hurt your ranking but "Pakistan" can't . I also belong to Pakistan and have never spamed any forum.

        Now coming to the topic, how WordPress can decrease your ranking where even a VERY BASIC webmaster can do a good SEO using plugins with WordPress. OP, you must have seen a beautiful dream, because your site is ranked at 9,574,817 and its PR is 2... How can you say this stupid statement that you topped in Pakistan? I monitor the local rankings always and seeing your blog with "misspelled" title for the first time
        You even don't know the keywords for which my site topped and I used the past tense which definitely mean that it topped. I clearly mentioned that site which "RANKED", not rank, earlier have lost ranking now. How long have you been doing SEO by the way?
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  • Profile picture of the author 11811
    What keywords are you trying to rank for?

    Are you aware that 'Stylish Blinds' is currently mis-spelled in your title bar?
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  • Profile picture of the author Josh MacDonald
    There are hundreds of factors, why did you decide to pick on WordPress first?
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    Originally Posted by opportunist86 View Post

    . No matter what I do it doesn't rank well.
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    Sorry my man some blog roll site wide links on websites with no authority and forum profiles doesn't cut it anymore. has nothing to do with wordpress.
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  • Profile picture of the author gyamasaki
    Originally Posted by opportunist86 View Post

    My site stylishblinds ranked top in my country and and 8th worldwide. I left IM for sometimes and now it has completely lost its ranking. No matter what I do it doesn't rank well.
    Is it happening only with wordpress based sites? because it seems all of my wordpress based sites lost ranking.
    That's just the way Google works -- it is constantly updating and changing.
    I had a Wordpress website that was page 1 on google, and I left for a month to vacation. I came back and it fell off the face of the world.

    I think this is a good thing, google is constantly updating and having mainstream content for their top ranked sites. No offense to you or me, but Google wants new content!
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    • Profile picture of the author agc
      Originally Posted by gyamasaki View Post

      That's just the way Google works -- it is constantly updating and changing.
      I had a Wordpress website that was page 1 on google, and I left for a month to vacation. I came back and it fell off the face of the world.

      I think this is a good thing, google is constantly updating and having mainstream content for their top ranked sites. No offense to you or me, but Google wants new content!
      FWIW, Google seems to have lost their way with relevance in the last 18 months or so. It seems its getting harder and harder to find useful results on google, and I've actually started using bing as my default search engine. Not because I hate google (I do), but because it just works better. gasp.
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      • Profile picture of the author Outsourcingnerd
        Originally Posted by agc View Post

        FWIW, Google seems to have lost their way with relevance in the last 18 months or so. It seems its getting harder and harder to find useful results on google, and I've actually started using bing as my default search engine. Not because I hate google (I do), but because it just works better. gasp.
        I have noticed that too, a good example is if you are searching for some tutorial stuff or a tweak for Word Press.

        I often see some result that is years old - not much relevant if you want a tweak for the newest version of your software.
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        • Profile picture of the author yukon
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          Originally Posted by Outsourcingnerd View Post

          I have noticed that too, a good example is if you are searching for some tutorial stuff or a tweak for Word Press.

          I often see some result that is years old - not much relevant if you want a tweak for the newest version of your software.

          You can adjust the search results all the way down to todays date, so it's not that Google isn't returning the latest site/blog post by date, you just didn't use the available date/time filter when searching.
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          • Profile picture of the author Outsourcingnerd
            Originally Posted by yukon View Post

            You can adjust the search results all the way down to todays date, so it's not that Google isn't returning the latest site/blog post by date, you just didn't use the available date/time filter when searching.
            Yep, I know :-) I just refer to general settings. Before I get more up to date results without adjusting settings.
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            • Profile picture of the author mrshark4
              It could just be that since uv left it for awhile other people have been doing more seo than you and constantly putting out new content. we all know google loves new content. if you have been number 1 for your keyword before it shouldnt take long for you to get back up there doing abit more SEO on your website
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  • Profile picture of the author funtler
    Originally Posted by opportunist86 View Post

    My site stylishblinds ranked top in my country and and 8th worldwide. I left IM for sometimes and now it has completely lost its ranking. No matter what I do it doesn't rank well.
    Is it happening only with wordpress based sites? because it seems all of my wordpress based sites lost ranking.
    I don't think your site was to ever rank that high. Don't lie for traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author RedShifted
    Both my sites are doing just fine and they're both wordpress. Then I have a 3rd wordpress site that is 6 weeks old, and just begining to climb up the ranks. So I doubt that WP has anything to do with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rachel McKnight
    I've only ever used Wordpress and I'm still doing fine. In fact, I haven't experienced any changes in my rankings for over a year. I dont think it has anything to do with Wordpress.
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  • Profile picture of the author atSad141
    Search engines are smarter than you. It would be a good idea to change your blog's title "Stylish Binds" to its native name "Stylish Blinds" as your domain name implies.
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  • Profile picture of the author ps2home
    It's something i've wondered about. Does Google prefer custom built sites, or custom made wordpress themes opposed to standard themes? I think it's possible. But WordPress is the best platform to build a site on.
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    • Profile picture of the author JamesLennon
      Originally Posted by ps2home View Post

      It's something i've wondered about. Does Google prefer custom built sites, or custom made wordpress themes opposed to standard themes? I think it's possible. But WordPress is the best platform to build a site on.
      Google have said the prefer standard HTML sites over cms sites
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      • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
        Originally Posted by Fixnotic View Post

        Google have said the prefer standard HTML sites over cms sites
        Makes as much sense as your other comment that WP is "stupidly slow". Why would Google have a preference of one way a site is built over another?
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    Bingo! You've just won the prize for the first "Google hates WordPress Sites" for 2013.

    Your trophy is in the mail.
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  • Profile picture of the author tech84
    Yes its true!!

    I'm going to dump all of my wordpress sites now!!


    in other news....

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  • Profile picture of the author brianboyer
    100% of my sites use Wordpress and I have never had problems. Look at some if the top earning/highest traffic sites and I bet a lot of those use Wordpress.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sillysoft
    As much as I dislike wordpress, the thought google has an issue with wordpress is very hard to accept. Perhaps its the persons implementation of wordpress.
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  • Profile picture of the author Outsourcingnerd
    I am quite sure that Google would not target a specific platform as Word press.

    A scenario could be a popular theme, that somehow violate Google´s TOS (bad on page SEO), and sites build on the same theme with those errors, might leave a footprint.

    If a site loads fast, has great content and does not use crappy back links, there should be no reason whatsoever to decide a site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tyler S
    I don't think WordPress is the problem, as many factors influence the Google ranking. Millions of wordpress sites are ranking well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dokemion
    It's not on WP... It's sad to say but it maybe because of a poor SEO strategy..
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  • Profile picture of the author JensonChong
    Wordpress is still SEO friendly but it depends on the theme too!

    If you are working on your site developing content, building links and you stopped working (as you mentioned) then ranking would drop.
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  • Profile picture of the author softysmith
    I don't think so that's WordPress issue to down the ranking i have lot of site which is made by wordpress and its still on rank
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  • Profile picture of the author chinweike
    I left my WP site for over one just doing a single post per month, yet I never lost my position for the key words I ranked for. Something else is defo the problem.
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Tan
    Wordpress is possibly one of the most stable platforms there is and Google will be unlikely hit a platform, don't speculate things like this.

    And do you know: CNN, MSNBC, MarketersMedia, CBS Group, Time Inc, BBC, HowStuffWorks, NBC, TED, TechCrunch, DowJones, UPS, SEOPressor and many global brands are all hosted on Wordpress.

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