SEO differences between .org and .com
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One of the primary reasons I started a blog was to enjoy the SEO benefits. I’ve been told my a friend that because my dotCom blog is not hosted on the same server as my website (GoDaddy), that I have no SEO benefits. I do have a link to my WordPress.com blog on every page of my website, but I’m not sure if the Google spiders follow that link to WordPress.
I have scoured the forums and haven’t found a definitive answer to this:
With regard to SEO, are there actual advantages or benefits to going through WordPress.ORG as opposed to WordPress.COM?Thank you for any light you can shed.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Your friend is incorrect (to put it mildly). But it may be a matter of perspective: if you want the SEO benefits to accrue to your Whatever.com site and not your Whateverblog.wordpress.com, then the way it’s set up is non-optimal. You can MAKE it optimal by purchasing the domain upgrade and making your blog’s URL Blog.Whatever.com. That makes the boost go more directly to your main website domain, and lifts it up the google rankings more than just linking to the blog from each page. Also makes it far easier for your readers to remember where to find you online.
In absolute terms, there is NOTHING online that outranks a WordPress.COM blog in SEO terms except perhaps a VIP program WordPress.COM blog. This is sort of a specialty of mine. I teach beginners, and we had a man whose institute had been blogged about by the NYTimes and the UN. By the end of his first four hours of blogging, he outranked them on Google searches for the name of the institute. Four hours=number one on Google. Nothing beats that, nothing.
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How can I learn about your VIP program? We do a blog about Asheville, NC at least a couple of times a week and hardly get any hits. I’ve done Internet searches on things we’ve blogged about and we don’t even come up at all.
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You don’t get the VIP program to increase hits, you get the VIP program when you have so many hits that you are overwhelmed.
From: http://wordpress.com/vip-hosting/
You may be a good candidate for VIP hosting if, for example, you get more than 500,000 pageviews a month on your blog. Pricing begins at $500/month per blog with a one-time setup fee of $600, but may be flexible depending on your circumstances or number of blogs.
Since the site linked to your username is not a wordpress.COM blog, and since there is link to a blog on that site that I can see, to offer anything further, we need a link to the blog that you are talking about.
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Whoa! That’s not our web site! Someone else is using our domain name. How did that happen! Anyone know what we can do about that?
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loversloopretreat,
I C what you mean. According to the WHOIS records your domain loversloopretreat.com expired on 2009/10/05. That’s why it’s not working anymore. Did you forget to renew it?
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No, I did renew, but I finally heard from the host that it didn’t get into the batch of renewals somehow – their fault and they have fixed it. That kind of ruined my good day. Now, where was I…
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Not exactly a vote of confidence for your host, is it? Well, I’m glad you sorted it out. I would be furious if that happened to me. You were asking about the VIP program, but I guess thesacredpath answered that for you.
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Having your Blog hosted externally (on wordpress.com) can have a real benefit for SEO because you can created keyword rich backlinks to your Website which will be of real value in the eyes of the search engines because they are from a separate IP address. Building high quality inbound links to your site accounts for more than 70% of SEO so although .com is more restricted than .org – I still think a .com blog can really help your SEO!
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If you are talking about meta keywords, you really need to take a look at this. Google – the search engine with the largest share by a large margin, pays absolutely zero attention to keywords:
Matt Cutts from Google on Google NOT using keywords:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/keywords-meta-tag-in-web-search/
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.htmlAs he states, they MAY use a meta description for their snippet in returned search results, but keywords are dead and not worth the time to write them.
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