Hosting and SEO
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All other things being equal, does the host make a difference in SERP? Am I more highly ranked because I am on WP.com than I would be self hosting or with a paid host (assuming I didn’t do anything different except be on those other hosting platforms)?
I recently listened to a pitch from a couple of hosts who said they would do SEO for me. In one case they have a whole network of related business sites they host and which link to each other, supposedly giving everyone good inbound link credibility. But isn’t that black hat? Even if it isn’t, I would think a bunch of sites on the same server linking to each other wouldn’t have a lot of credibility, but I don’t claim to be expert in these matters, hence the question.
Thanks
my blog: http://www.vetyourlawyer.comThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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WP.com blogs using categories and/or tags correctly outrank all other blogs in terms of SEO. The kind of linking those SEO experts are talking about betrays their ignorance: not only is it sleazy, but they’re obviously not aware that the tag/category pages here at WP.com function in a similar, but much more powerful way.
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I’ve noticed that my regular websites (non WP) has top position search engine ranks, while my WP blogs can’t even be found on search engines no matter how many keywords, links etc there may be. The blog only gets picked up on a search if I type the exact sentence of a blog…. so its not much of a help, really.
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My experience seems to also confirm what raincoaster is saying — the tag/categories on WP can be a good for SEO and also direct human traffic.
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Absolutely. I think Google would take a hit out on Matt if it could. I teach blogging for a living and there is absolutely no question that WP.com rules that word.
cdariviera, I don’t know what you’re doing, but you must be screwing yourself up royally somehow. If you give me a link to the blog, I could take a look.
Seriously, I had a student who started a blog for his institute. The institute had been blogged about by the UN, CNN, Time, all kinds of media outlets. Within four hours of starting the blog it was #1 on Google in searches for that blog.
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Institute, not blog. I type too fast sometimes. Anyway, that’s a relatively typical result.
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(And the OP’s site is the THIRD WordPress.COM blog that I’ve visited in the past 24 hours where the WP gray Admin bar is missing when I visit the site! Cookies already danced.)
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The OP has 10 posts since mid-October. That doesn’t seem like an optimum strategy for making search engines sit up and take notice.
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@raincoaster-Well, here’s the skinny. Even though I’m logged in to WordPress.COM, the Admin Bar’s missing on your blog too and apparently any WordPress.COM blog that has domain mapping. (It started after the intro of the new theme and threaded comments.)
This is a serious bummer when trying to help someone in the forums, as it is the quickest way to determine that the blog-in-question is a WordPress.COM blog or not.
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Yes, but as we’ve seen before, what staff, signed in as staff, sees, and what other people see are different. Did you sign out and do the cookie dance before checking?
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http://skitch.com/markr/bfsrg/raincoaster
This is what I see when I am signed in as my daughter. Your CSS is interfering which is why the slight funkiness but it’s very much there.
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You can’t see the admin bar on my blog either, and it’s hosted on it’s own page. I just installed last night, trying to figure out what the positive and negetives are for hosting on my own domain. So far, it seems like if I host on my own domain, people who leave comments don’t connect to their WordPress profiles, nor do I have any of the “Stat” info on my dashboard like when I use my roninjinn.wordpress.com account. Totally new to wordpress, so I may just be missing something.
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If it’s hosted on its own page, you’re in the wrong forum. It’s a completely separate system, and you need to be at WordPress.ORG for that. The IDs do not link up.
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