Does typepage rank better than wordpress sites?

  • I notice typepad tends to generate pages/posts that end in .html vs wordpress which if you use permanent links they end in like

    /nameofpage/

    would you say search engines will look more favourably upon type page pages vs wordpress ones.. due to them being .html?

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  • Thread Starter eddyj

    (@eddyj)

    I dont see many sites in the top 10 that are wordpress sites do you? in fact i dont see many type page ones either.. i wonder if google consider blogs not sites and wont rank them aswell

    Regardless of what platform you use it is content that matters. Google and co. probably don’t care much but people do. They like, they link.

    Content is king.

    I dont see many sites in the top 10 that are wordpress sites do you? in fact i dont see many type page ones either.. i wonder if google consider blogs not sites and wont rank them aswell

    Actually, due to the nature of blogs, they’re often extremely highly placed in Google and other SE.

    due to them being .html

    This has little impact. The main factors driving SE (search engine) rankings:

    1) Number of incoming links. As Podz says, good content results in more people linking in.
    2) Quality of incoming links. Highly ranked people make a disproportionate difference in SE ranking. Good links drive up your ranking; great links drive it up even more. Being connected to bad neighbourhoods drives it down.
    3) Title and URL. Note this has nothing to do with the extension. Titles with keywords relating to the search help. Pretty permalinks are very good.
    4) Good markup. Well written HTML are a major boon. Table based layouts are bad; semantic, concise markup is good.
    5) Content. The type of content is a major driver, not only for getting people to link to you but also for SE to contextually understand your page.
    6) Age. New sites are placed in a sandbox and penalised until they’re deemed stable enough to be ranked normally.

    There are other factors but the ones above are the biggies. WP gives a major advantage with regards to SEO due to it’s inherent nature; in fact some people have the opposite problem with their blogs being unintentionally highly placed for certain terms.

    For the record, you can make permalinks with yoursite.com/slug.html if you wish with WordPress. People who have converted from MT do it all the time.

    And podz is right – this isn’t 1999 where page rank depends largely on the URL or people spamming keywords into their pages. ??

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