Comments on: Does Google REALLY Prefer WordPress over Static Sites?

By: Lizzy

Lizzy — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:58:38 +0000

just starting out, and have a feeling you are someone i really need to listen to and take notice of

By: Tim Shirley

Tim Shirley — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:46:37 +0000

Josh, another great post and some awesome comments. I learn something new every time I visit your blog. Keep up the good work.

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:20:19 +0000

So would you say the same for Drupal and/or Joomla, or would you say that WordPress has an advantage over them in terms of SEO?

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:51:26 +0000

I wonder how the posts and pages make a difference to how Google ranks a site. When I post, does Google quickly forget my post because it sees it as out of date?

By: Coffee Espresso Makers

Coffee Espresso Makers — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:57:50 +0000

Josh,
This is exactly what I thought, even though I am no authority on this. It simply makes common sense. And, it does seem WP has so much more help available through the plugins as was mentioned to help your site perform better.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:30:03 +0000

Another common misconception is that there are “static sites” and “wordpress sites” (a mentality that this post further perpetuates). WordPress is by far the most popular CMS but it’s not the best. Geeklog is one example of a CMS that has a large multitude of plugins and some features that put WordPress to shame.. such as multiple author capability, out of the box. And.. there’s no reason that a wordpress site can’t be a static site and still utilize all the plugin functionality. It’s quite easy to remove the ‘posted by/at’ and ‘category’ lines.

By: Ann @ How To Make A Website

Ann @ How To Make A Website — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:56 +0000

I agree with everything you said. Being that I run several static sites and blogs, I have never seen any evidence that SE’s prefer blogs. They are great for easy design, and super quick for adding fresh content at any time and from anywhere.

By: KenT

KenT — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:10:34 +0000

Hey Josh, thanks for your take.

I’ve been sorta brain-washed by the WP community, especially marketers selling WP templates and other products that WP is “loved” by Google, giving me the impression that by using WP you’ll get GoogleLove. But as you mentioned, with WP it’s in the ‘ping’.

I stopped at 3 WP site and went with RapidWeaver for Macs, and I’ve never looked back.

I really feel for those people that have a bunch of WP sites because I found myself spending more time that I wanted on “updating.” Yes, I know you don’t always have to update, but I love to keep up with the latest.

I’m having some small growing success with both platforms, so I’ve found a best of both worlds for me. A couple of WP sites that are easy to manage and knock-myself-out-go-crazy making RW sites.

By: John

John — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:15:54 +0000

In some ways I think the platform helps but I would have to totally disagree or would cry foul if Google for example prefers WP over any other blogging platforms. But keeping it static, won’t that be too hard especially those that don’t have a background on programming/HTML and the likes? At least with CMS-like platforms the user is saved from doing all the tedious task of manually doing it, getting him/her more hours to do more things that actually helps promote the website instead of burying his/her head in a header file, or whatever, all day trying to make it work.

By: chandan

chandan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:10:18 +0000

I also prefer wordpress blog. Although I am using blogger blog, but I think blogger blog are not so good like wordpress blog. There are no plug in to use on blogger blog.