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Looking for an SEO comparison
I would be interested in knowing how people feel about TXP in comparison to WordPress for SEO purposes. I’m working on migrating the entire cmscritic.com site over to TXP since I personally find it more usable. My biggest pain points with the site on WP at the moment are the ridiculous number of updates of plugins and releases I have to contend with.. and I’ve had them break the site more than once.
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Re: Looking for an SEO comparison
Well with your experience with wordpress you can look at some of the below and decide yourself. Please share your opinion.
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Re: Looking for an SEO comparison
Mike,
It depends on what you define to be SEO, since it’s changed somewhat over the years. I know that the Textpattern sites that I run get picked up rather quickly by the search engines and my articles are ranked high.
From my perspective, having a clean layout and picking the title for your articles carefully goes a long way towards a high ranking.
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Re: Looking for an SEO comparison
Well, my site performs pretty well so far with WordPress but i detest the bloated feel. I prefer textpatterns lean and mean interface personally. From an SEO perspective, it seems pretty solid.. Just wondering about personal experiences.
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#5 2009-08-17 12:58:29
- thischarmingmanc
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Re: Looking for an SEO comparison
Much more probably the age of your site and the number of backlinks that make the difference
hcgtv wrote:
Mike,
It depends on what you define to be SEO, since it’s changed somewhat over the years. I know that the Textpattern sites that I run get picked up rather quickly by the search engines and my articles are ranked high.
From my perspective, having a clean layout and picking the title for your articles carefully goes a long way towards a high ranking.
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Re: Looking for an SEO comparison
I’ve never used WP so I can’t comment on how good or bad it is. One thing I don’t know is whether one has the same control over code as with Txp.
For example, in Textpattern you can create a list of products that is just a series of 10 thumbnails on multiple pages. This may be a great way to navgate the products but not SEO-friendly, of course. So what you can easily do is create an alternative page to list ALL products using titles and descriptions.
In my experience off-page SEO is what counts the most. Good online PR is key.
But I also think that, apart from content, Google values good information architecture, code and even accessbility. I think that’s easier achieve in Txp than WP.
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