Is there any benefits in having a static HTML site over a wordpress site when it comes to SEO. I’ve read time and time again that wordpress is more spider & SEO friendly, but can a SEO structure within a website be made stronger through using static html?
Help please
for small niche websites i prefer html sites, that loads fast and has better performance, for large constantly updating user friendly sites i prefer wordpress
Thank you
Jai
hey,
i think static website is good option but finally depend on what kind of services are you represent & if it’s shopping cart then better to use Wordpress but i would like to say you that you have to be careful during on page act.
static HTML site or a wordpress site, it doesn’t matter for as long as you know how to properly optimize onpage factors for seo and perform a solid offpage optimization with good and unique contents, you can get good results from your seo campaign.
bottom line: seo success depends on your skills and knowledge no matter what kind of website you use.
While WP is friendlier now than ever (in terms of SEO) it will never be SEO friendly per se. The reason for this “unfriendlyness” is that WP depends on the template and the plug-ins you will use. Since both WP templates and plug-ins are built for a wide plubic, making them (either template or plugín) good to use and 100% SEO friendly is just not possible. You can’t code that a plug-in needs to deliver when you don’t even know where that code is going to be used.
Yet, is it good to use WP instead of a static site?
Well, it really depends on the type of site you’re building. If your site is going to be updated with a high frequency, if you will be adding new content frenquently, if your site is going to be highly dynamic, definately.
If your site is not going to be that dynamic but a CMS will make your life easier and save you time, then yes.
If your site is not going to be that dynamic but you will not save that much by doing the job yourself, then no.
If your site will not be dynamic at all, then you don’t need a CMS for anything and no, you should not WP or anything else, just static HTML
If you update site regularly then Wordpress. If it is static site then simple HTML is enough.
Why go to static website, when you have free and best SEO Friendly Open Source CMS like Wordpress.
Wordpress is the best to add content, pages, managing also from SEO point of view. Just use wordpress for best result.
WordPress is wonderful for SEO once you learn to fine-tune it, but most themes are not perfect out of the box.
Just having everything done for you dynamically allows you to have very semantic code and very efficient caching. It automatically pings all kinds of services for you, which is a plus.
Short answer: WordPress will greatly help if you have a big site, but it’s only as good as you make it.
That blogs automatically get shot to the top by Google is a myth. Thank you all for your sane replies.
I use both, but prefer static .php with includes for those parts that will be shared by many pages. Since I lack TheRaptor’s coding skill, my Wordpress blogs do things behind the scenes I don’t ask them to. That’s why I prefer building bigger sites with php/html.
The question which is best blog or static is personal and there is no yea or nay universal answer.
If you are updating a diary or are constantly updating by adding blog posts every day then obviously a blog like WordPress is the best.
jaiganesh156 prefers html for small sites and uses WordPress for large constantly updating sites.
I tend to do the opposite, with blogs for small niche sites, and html for larger sites, but then my larger sites probably have a different character than jaiganesh156’s.
At the end of the day a blog post is still a web page.
Yes you are right wordpress is more SEO friendly and it always provides advantage if we want to create a site.
Yes, and I’ve read time and time again that choosing only odd numbers makes it more likely you’ll win the lottery … that doesn’t make it true.
Wordpress is not SEO friendly by default, you have to work hard to beat it into submission if you want a site that Googlebot is going to like. The advantages of having a plain hand-coded HTML site for SEO are that you are in full control of the content and markup, meaning that you can optimise it how you want, and do a much better job than any automated process can. (Or to put it another way, anything useful that Wordpress can do, you can do just as well in plain HTML. And everything else, you can do better).
Not to mention the advantages to usability, portability, accessibility and customisability that you get from being in full control. Wordpress is fine for people who want a plain and simple blog and don’t have the skills to build a proper website – but if you can build a proper site, it’s pretty much always better to do that.
Sorry, but if that’s the case then your coding skills aren’t up to snuff. If you can be beaten by a very simple blog template system then that’s not something you want to be admitting to in public
There is nothing that Wordpress can do for SEO that you can’t do on your own site. And there’s lots of things that it does do, that it really shouldn’t do.
I can categorically say, with 100% confidence, that this is outright nonsense.
WordPress is not more SEO friendly, not by a long shot.
There are many SEO plugins that can help Wordpress become more SEO friendly. You can install plugins like the All In One SEO Pack, Platinum SEO Pack, and SEO Ultimate. Among the three, I like SEO Ultimate because it is far more powerful and flexible with more capability to customize your title tags, etc.
There are also many Wordpress themes that are SEO optimized which can help you get a head start.
I’m a WordPress theme developer and so I can tell you from experience that it takes some work to get WP up to my (hopefully high) standards of coding. It is not SEO friendly out of the box. All the trash it spews out into the <head> is simply absurd. I literally have to whip it into submission by filtering out all the default - unnecessary - bloat. I have a default filters.php in all my themes so I don’t have to write the same clean-up code every time I code a theme.
But, it depends on the complexity of your site. If you are a blogger or someone who updates often or just need an easy to use CMS, WP is still an excellent choice. Just strip it down and theme from scratch or hire someone to do it for you. Remember though, you can’t beat the amount of flexibility and control you have with a static HTML page.
Also, don’t get me wrong, I think WP is still the most powerful CMS out there, just with anything it isn’t perfect and needs a bit of whippin’ and cleaning up here and there.
Really appreciate the insight on this one - it’s been extreemly valuable.
I don’t agree with this. There are plenty of SEO plugins for Wordpress, that’s for sure but WP is not either good or bad for SEO. If anything, if you don’t change the defaults is more bad than good. It can be great if you adapt it your needs though.