Is wordpress "Seo-friendly"? hard to set up?

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by tarponkeith, Jun 26, 2007.

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    I'm a Microsoft server user, so not versed in the world of PHP, vBulletin, or WordPress...

    But I'm making a blog for a friend, and don't want to spend the time to learn anything new (ie: php)... So I decided to use "WordPress"...

    Is it SEO-friendly? Does google like it?

    Is it hard to make the pages look nice?

    Hard to install?

    I did some research and it looks interesting and adaptable... I just want to hear from current word-press users and see how they feel about it... thanks!
     
    tarponkeith, Jun 26, 2007 IP
  2. WebGeek182

    WebGeek182 Active Member

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    WordPress is great...easy to setup...lots of great plugins and free themes. Jim Westergren has a great guide for WordPress SEO.

    Hope that helps!
     
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    myp Well-Known Member

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    also check out courtneytuttle.com because he has tips on seo with wordpress and he even has some modded themes which help with seo
     
    myp, Jun 26, 2007 IP
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    teddyruxpin2000 Peon

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    poppatopz Well-Known Member

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    hey guys thanks for asking and aswering these this helps me out as well
     
    poppatopz, Jul 3, 2007 IP
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    yogesh sarkar Well-Known Member

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    It’s quite easy to setup and get going, though if you seriously want to exploit its full power than you need to put it on a server that has Apache, else the mod_rewrite wont work.
     
    yogesh sarkar, Jul 3, 2007 IP
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    There are rewrites of the mod_rewrite apache conf for other web-servers, including lighttpd - probably not relevant for OP, but hey...

    It's that easy! And if you have problems, one of the biggest pro's of using wordpress is a helpful community (also besides DP), and vast article resources and such - so you won't get stuck.
     
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    I think Wordpress is the most SEO-friendly platform, so you definitely should try it out :) Good luck :)
     
    r3born, Jul 3, 2007 IP
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    I agree with Paul. Go download this right now. If you want me to show you why it's great just give me a PM, I don't want to post all the junk here. I love SEO all in one.
     
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    sat123 Banned

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    wordpress rocks....and seo is much easy here.........so far it's better than blogger MT and..........

    if u need to blog out wordpress is d best...also easy to install...
     
    sat123, Jul 8, 2007 IP
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    It is perfect, i love using it and it is so easy to find a great theme. Just try it out it is awesome.
     
    odin93, Jul 8, 2007 IP