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The question I would try to answer today “Is WordPress Good for SEO? I don’t agree with it completely. Yes, you heard me right!
WordPress is an SEO friendly CMS, even much better than other solutions in the market but still it’s not a perfect SEO CMS solution. I’ve been an advanced user of WordPress – would be sharing my thoughts out here with facts.
WordPress has become the first choice for most of the bloggers in the world to share their content and creativity out there. Some of them, focus on money as the primary goal – nothing wrong with it, however, few genuinely want to add value to society.
If you are a blogger or content creator in any form, must be falling in one of the categories I just talked about. Both the cases demand one condition to be fulfilled, pushing content to the right audience. That’s where SEO comes into the picture!
Every content creator should understand the possibility of a platform to distribute their content among users. Because It doesn’t matter how good your content is, it won’t be visible anywhere in the search if CMS is not going well with SEO.
As we all know, WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based free and the best content management system (CMS) available in the market since the 27th of May, 2003. But the question remains the same, Is WordPress good for SEO? We shouldn’t stop asking this question, as Google and other major search engines keep changing or modifying their algorithms.
WordPress raw installation (without any plugin or theme) has many flaws that don’t make it a complete SEO friendly CMS. However, tricks and controlled changes can make you eligible to get the best out of it.
Below are some of the pain areas of WordPress, stopping it to be a perfect CMS:
Website Load Speed
One of the major factors to attract users, apart from content (of course) is the loading speed of your website. As I mentioned in earlier posts, users don’t wait for more than 5 seconds to load a page or posts before hitting the back button and jumping to another site.
We’ve heard of slow WordPress site issues, but you can’t put all the blame on CMS as it has many factors involved for example Bad host, plugin, theme, etc. Default Installation of WordPress has an excellent load speed, and most of the users spoil it by using too many plugins, themes that aren’t SEO friendly.
Automatic Sitemaps Submission
You want your content to be searched, and visible then of course sitemap plays a vital role. That’s another challenge we have with WordPress which is the unavailability of automatic submission of sitemap to search engines. Yes, there are plugins to help you out but it would have some major negative impact too, for example slowing down your website.
I am not a huge fan of plugins except few, always prefer to make changes in the source code of WordPress itself.I highly recommend submitting your sitemaps to Google search console manually instead of depending on any plugin.
I use WordPress and try to kill all the loopholes by making changes in the source files, going with less plugin as much as possible. Even though I am still not satisfied completely. However, I would call myself a proud WordPress developer/user 🙂
This article is published on "theoutwrite.com" by Varun Singh Rajput. Thanks for your time, please share your valuable feedback & comments - our email address is: [email protected].
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The question I would try to answer today “Is WordPress Good for SEO? I don’t agree with it completely. Yes, you heard me right!
WordPress is an SEO friendly CMS, even much better than other solutions in the market but still it’s not a perfect SEO CMS solution. I’ve been an advanced user of WordPress – would be sharing my thoughts out here with facts.
WordPress has become the first choice for most of the bloggers in the world to share their content and creativity out there. Some of them, focus on money as the primary goal – nothing wrong with it, however, few genuinely want to add value to society.
If you are a blogger or content creator in any form, must be falling in one of the categories I just talked about. Both the cases demand one condition to be fulfilled, pushing content to the right audience. That’s where SEO comes into the picture!
Every content creator should understand the possibility of a platform to distribute their content among users. Because It doesn’t matter how good your content is, it won’t be visible anywhere in the search if CMS is not going well with SEO.
As we all know, WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based free and the best content management system (CMS) available in the market since the 27th of May, 2003. But the question remains the same, Is WordPress good for SEO? We shouldn’t stop asking this question, as Google and other major search engines keep changing or modifying their algorithms.
WordPress raw installation (without any plugin or theme) has many flaws that don’t make it a complete SEO friendly CMS. However, tricks and controlled changes can make you eligible to get the best out of it.
Below are some of the pain areas of WordPress, stopping it to be a perfect CMS:
Website Load Speed
One of the major factors to attract users, apart from content (of course) is the loading speed of your website. As I mentioned in earlier posts, users don’t wait for more than 5 seconds to load a page or posts before hitting the back button and jumping to another site.
We’ve heard of slow WordPress site issues, but you can’t put all the blame on CMS as it has many factors involved for example Bad host, plugin, theme, etc. Default Installation of WordPress has an excellent load speed, and most of the users spoil it by using too many plugins, themes that aren’t SEO friendly.
Automatic Sitemaps Submission
You want your content to be searched, and visible then of course sitemap plays a vital role. That’s another challenge we have with WordPress which is the unavailability of automatic submission of sitemap to search engines. Yes, there are plugins to help you out but it would have some major negative impact too, for example slowing down your website.
I am not a huge fan of plugins except few, always prefer to make changes in the source code of WordPress itself.I highly recommend submitting your sitemaps to Google search console manually instead of depending on any plugin.
I use WordPress and try to kill all the loopholes by making changes in the source files, going with less plugin as much as possible. Even though I am still not satisfied completely. However, I would call myself a proud WordPress developer/user 🙂
This article is published on "theoutwrite.com" by Varun Singh Rajput. Thanks for your time, please share your valuable feedback & comments - our email address is: [email protected].