Search engine indexing, blogger compared to WP

  • All,

    I run my blog on blogger (www.intersplice.com.au/blog) and it is indexed heavily on google.

    However,
    My other site using WP (www.cafegeek.com/home) is not indexing at all. I get more vsits to the latter and also have it set up with google adwords.

    I am wondering if this has something to do with the fact that WP generates pages on the fly as oppsed to being static HTML.

    Do any of you have any views or advice on this.

    cheers
    rob

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  • It shouldn’t have an impact. A few things:

    1. your WP site has no meta keywords field. it also has no description field. and the Title field doesn’t have any search-engine-useful text.

    2. your WP site hasn’t been around long, I take it. From what little I understand, Google rankings have changed somewhat of late, possibly penalizing brand-new sites so that new sites can’t play link/rank games with their engine.

    3. while not needed, you could activate nice permalinks/URIs on your site. I don’t use them on mine (CHAITGEAR), but YMMV.

    A site that has been around for YEARS will likely do much better with the engines. Also, note that visits doesn’t necessarily mean better pagerank/ranking — links IN to your site (and some content comparisons) is what really affects things.

    -d

    Static versus dynamic pages don’t (usually) change Google’s indexing.

    Consider this search, which clearly shows a WordPress site with dynamic content and crufty URIs being indexed.

    Google reportedly ignores sites until googlebot bumps into them via a link from a PR4 page.

    Speaking of which, ensuring there exists a PR4 ‘new wordpress blogs’ page on www.ads-software.com might very well do the trick…

    Thread Starter barbarac

    (@barbarac)

    ok cool.

    I have permalinks on the pages in the form of the navigation on the right, and in the title of each post and I have added a meaningful title to the page.

    I will add meta data today too.

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