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Doesn’t google automatically downrank Wordpress sites in the search algorithm? If so why is WP still being recommended?
by rdtwo 6y ago
Doesn’t google automatically downrank Wordpress sites in the search algorithm? If so why is WP still being recommended?
- gmays 6y agoNo. In fact, WordPress sites generally rank better due to the free SEO plugins like Yoast--I believe Matt Cutts stated these a while back. Google itself has also built great plugins for WordPress like AMP and Site Kit (https://sitekit.withgoogle.com https://sitekit.withgoogle.com).
- rchaud 6y agoNow this is a search algo myth I've never heard of (and there are many out there). Some of the biggest websites in the world have a WP backbone. Why on earth would Google care what blog framework the site was built on? As long as it's not known spam domain and the site generates machine-readable HTML, Google will index it and rank it if it gets a good number of clicks for search terms. Did you mean WP-hosted sites (with the domain xyz.wordpress.com) instead of self-hosted Wordpress?
- rdtwo 6y agoMaybe I confused Wordpress hosted sites with wP backbone sites. Is there a negative value to wP hosted sites or really any other managed Wordpress deployments?