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Why WordPress is Good for SEO?

Anyone in the SEO industry would have heard over and over, “WordPress is the best content management system for SEO”. While that statement might be a little bit bold, whoever told you that might be onto something.
This post will walk you through and highlight some of the key reasons why WordPress may be the best choice of content management system for businesses wanting to improve on their rankings in the SERPs. WordPress is already built with SEO in mind, and what isn’t implemented from the ground zero is caught up with various plugins.

 Easy to Use

WordPress is easy to use. One can master the basics within a few minutes or hours. This is great for novice or intermediate blog masters. The simplicity of WordPress blogs can help avoid making any mistakes while setting it up. These mistakes could turn out to be costly in the long run when it comes to search engine optimization, especially for those lacking coding skills.

No HTML Required

 Improper usage of HTML Code can hinder one’s SEO game plan. HTML code is not required for WordPress. One can simply install their data with basic typing. Although if you want to have a successful site you do need to learn HTML and some other programming languages, if you are new at this WordPress gives you the chance to learn gradually and not lose much because you are starting with no knowledge.

Protection against Spam

 Search engines despise blogs or sites that are affiliated with spam activity. Sites or blogs with spam activity can be penalized severely. They will get low rankings or they will get sand boxed. Low rankings mean that a site or blog will not get a sufficient amount of organic traffic (traffic from search engines). WordPress provides plenty of spam protection to help blog masters avoid falling into this pitfall.

 Plugins

 Plugins help WordPress become even more search engine friendly and even more automated. There are some plugins that are there strictly to help with SEO, other just to make your life easier and make the process go faster. With careful choices of plugins you can create a fast and incredibly search engine friendly website or blog.

Social Media Compatibility

All WordPress Blogs come with social media capability. Social Media is one of the easiest ways of getting thousands of people to visit your blog. There are dozens of social media sites in existence today. Taking advantage of one or several social media mediums can help you get thousands of visitors to your site with ease. Simple integration using a rich theme or a plugin can help share your content easily and get it to reach thousands of eyes.
Your Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn social accounts can easily be connected to your blog. More social interaction such as comments and email sign-ups will take place. Your blog can be a social medium for visitors from all over the world.
Customizable Themes
There are thousands of customizable themes available for your site. WordPress Blogs with customizable themes can help you design your layout in a preferred manner for both users and search engines. Some of them are so good that you might not even need plugins to achieve the maximum with your SEO efforts.
Auto Pinging
Pinging is a method that attracts the attention of search engine spiders. Pinging can help a new blog get indexed. WordPress Blogs have an automatic pinging. Pinging takes place after each post. Although once you get going with your website and create some valuable content pinging will not be of much use to you, but for a new blog it can come really handy.
Customize your permalinks
Being able to place relevant keywords in your URL’s is extremely valuable. Rather than letting Google think that your post is relevant to “post9803483” or whatever standard value it is given, Google can read that your post relevant to the keywords in the URL.

Super Clean Code

Now this does depend on what theme you are using. Some of the free themes you find in the far and wide corners of the internet are likely to contain a lot of vomit worthy code. But, if you go out of your way to have a theme specially made by a WordPress developer or even just by a ready made theme from a trusted source, the code is going to be squeaky clean and really SEO friendly.

SEO friendly website structure

This point mostly refers to the categorization that goes on within your website. When you make a new post, it can be added to a category which can have a parent category. A post can have tags added to it and also be categorized by Author. Mapping your website like this makes it so much easier for Google to find their way around your website and know exactly where they are.

Bottom line is that WordPress platform is becoming more popular with blog master all over the world. It is gaining more popularity as time passes by. Anyone can put their blog in a position to get tons of traffic and high search engine rankings if they take advantage of the benefits listed above. But of course, a good platform will solve one part of the problem, you still need to take care of quality content if you wish to succeed. But solving one issue at a time is the way to go, so if you don’t have enough money to have designers do a great website for you, WordPress offers everything for free, and with such easy implementation and SEO options what is there not to like?

 Source: http://www.webdeveloperjuice.com/2011/06/23/10-reasons-why-wordpress-is-great-for-seo/, http://www.webics.com.au/blog/seo/wordpress-benefits/
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