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Do I need Wordpress for a roofing website?

by wilmath
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I am getting into the roofing business and am creating a website for it. I have created a few other websites so have a fairly good idea on how to do it and would rather do my own design than follow a Wordpress template.

However, I was wondering if I need a Wordpress theme to boost seo. That would be the only reason I would want to use Wordpress.

Also, while there will be plenty of content, it won't be a blog and other than some testimonials, there won't be any "give and take"

It seemed several years back that Wordpress with plugins could really accelerate ranking but I get the feeling from this forum that is no longer the case.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Rick
#roofing #website #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Clyde Dennis
    Hey Rick, you should check this out: http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...plan-here.html

    No affiliation, just saw it and your post and thought the two might fit.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Wordpress really has no SEO value over a site coded in just HTML.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I'd blast that site with every city, town, municipality, metropolis, megalopolis, zip code... within a 100 mile radius.

    You can never have too many pages targeting same/similar keywords. Especially a roofing business, all they do is travel to job sites (different towns).
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  • Profile picture of the author wilmath
    Thanks everyone for the help.
    Yea, Yukon that is exactly what I want to do. It will take a few months
    but hopefully, I can climb the hill.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    You don't need WordPress, but it's a good CMS for small to mid sized websites. As others have said, no real SEO benefits come from the CMS. WordPress has got some nice SEO plugins, but those basically just make editing a bit easier. It's mostly about very basic stuff like titles, meta descriptions, and XML sitemaps.
    Signature
    Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
    Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

    What's your excuse?
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  • Profile picture of the author insyncearnings
    Wordpress itself doesn't offer any bonuses however you do have options such as search engine friendly urls which can improve search ranking and also SEO pluging which can help.

    I am currently using Yoast which wasn't always my first choice but will be from now on
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by insyncearnings View Post

      search engine friendly urls
      To be fair to other CMS that's something you can find from systems that are even half decent. In fact if it was not available there'd be something seriously wrong with the CMS in question.
      Signature
      Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
      Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

      What's your excuse?
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  • Profile picture of the author lbtriggerman
    I had the same idea as Yukon's. You can target a lot of keywords for different localities easier using CMS such as Wordpress.
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