Is google targeting wordpress sites now?

13 years ago

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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Icematikx

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Fixnotic

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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dcary13

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Icematikx

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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Mike Anthony 13 years ago

Originally Posted by dcary13

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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Auctiondebteliminator 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Fixnotic

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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paulgl

13 years ago

Originally Posted by opportunist86

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?

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opportunist86 13 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

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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- dcary13 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by opportunist86
  
  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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Rehmat

13 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

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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opportunist86

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Rehmat

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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11811

13 years ago

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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Josh MacDonald

13 years ago

There are hundreds of factors, why did you decide to pick on WordPress first?

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Mike Anthony

13 years ago

Originally Posted by opportunist86

. 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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yukon

Banned 13 years ago

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gyamasaki

13 years ago

Originally Posted by opportunist86

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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agc

13 years ago

Originally Posted by gyamasaki

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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Outsourcingnerd

13 years ago

Originally Posted by agc

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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yukon

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Outsourcingnerd

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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Outsourcingnerd

13 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

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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mrshark4 13 years ago

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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funtler

13 years ago

Originally Posted by opportunist86

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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RedShifted

13 years ago

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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Rachel McKnight

13 years ago

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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atSad141

13 years ago

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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ps2home

13 years ago

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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JamesLennon

13 years ago

Originally Posted by 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.

Google have said the prefer standard HTML sites over cms sites

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GeorgR. 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Fixnotic

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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UMS

13 years ago

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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tech84

13 years ago

Yes its true!!

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

in other news....

I think I saw a piece of the sky on the ground during my early morning walk

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brianboyer

13 years ago

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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Sillysoft

13 years ago

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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Outsourcingnerd

13 years ago

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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Nedseo 13 years ago

Yes they do starting here.. hahahahaha
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Tyler S

13 years ago

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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Dokemion

13 years ago

It's not on WP... It's sad to say but it maybe because of a poor SEO strategy..

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JensonChong

13 years ago

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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Quasha

13 years ago

There are thousands of factors that matter about your site's ups and down. So, don't take a quick decision. Do the same thing you did before you lost the position and may be your site can bounce back.

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softysmith

13 years ago

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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chinweike

13 years ago

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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Daniel Tan

13 years ago

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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