Is Wordpress good for SEO

[Studio33]

Is Wordpress good for SEO?  If so, any tips?  Do I need to set up as a subdomain so www.blog.mysite.com?

Thanks

[Asher]

just to clarify, are you talking about having a wordpress site as in "mysite.wordrpess.com" or just using a wordpress CMS on a domain you have such as "www.example.com"?

[Chris.Menke]

Studio, here's a great post on wordpress SEO.  Yoast makes a very useful plugin too.

[Studio33]

Hi,

Thanks for the responses.  i want to add the blog to my site to get the SEO value from it.  I do not want it hosted at Wordpress.  I'm confused how it would work in SEO terms.  How do I get the SEO value out of wordpress.

So to answer your question its: "or just using a wordpress CMS on a domain you have such as "www.example.com"?"

[SVmedia]

You don't have to set up wordpress on a subdomain.  And I probably wouldn't unless you're just looking to add a blog to your an existing site.

My opinion is that wordpress is hands down the most SEO-friendly CMS out there, and much less time-consuming to optimize than anything else.  You can create clean permalinks in 2 clicks, it basically handles the .htaccess stuff for you.  Also, the wordpress SEO plugin from Yoast makes it real easy optimize.

There was a good Wordpress SEO mozinar the other day that you might find helpful also.

http://moz.com/webinars/hands-on-answers-to-the-most-asked-wordpress-qestions

[SVmedia]

Yea you want to run a "self-hosted wordpress" to get the real SEO value out of it.  It's totally different than wordpress.com

http://wpmu.org/wordpress-org-vs-wordpress-com/

The benefit of wordpress is you won't have to be programmer to fix duplicate url issues and a lot of the technical stuff.  It's not that a wordpress site "ranks better" or something...it's just easier to keep technical issues from holding you back in my opinion.

[brad.s.knutson]

Out of the box, a self-hosted WordPress site is flawed when it comes to SEO.  Your permalink structure will be poor, there is rampant duplicate content and titles, frankly it's a bit of a mess.

With a little work though, you can turn WordPress into a very SEO friendly platform.  WordPress SEO by Yoast is an essential plugin in my mind, and makes things a whole lot easier.

Check out this very helpful Mozinar on the subject: http://moz.com/webinars/advanced-wordpress-seo

[robertdonnell]

Colin, you are definitely right about WordPress and SEO.  The link you provided was also quite helpful - thanks for the reminder.

[robertdonnell]

The best test case for the value of WordPress is to switch an existing site to WP from HTML as see the results.  I have been impressed.  I only use SEO optimized theme framework like headwaythemes.com genesis or thesis.

I find Yoast SEO buggy and redundant if you use a strong framework.