seo more effective on wordpress.com
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I thought it would be better to install wordpress on my domain at http://www.preciseformwork.co.uk/wordpress however I created an old blog on wordpress.com and it seems that blog is more seo friendly as it goes through less directories to hit keywords.
Does anyone else have this?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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We do certain things on WordPress.com to optimize your blog that definitely make it more SEO friendly. We have global tagging systems, related posts, and sitemaps set up for you by default. All of these help contribute to your WordPress.com blog’s search rankings.
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There is no blogging platform of which I’m aware that has the SEO of WordPress.com, and I’ve got blogs on EVERYTHING.
You may find that for branding reasons you want to have your own domain name, and if you want to do advertising or ecommerce you’ll have to leave, but if what you’re after is pure SEO, stay here.
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Thanks for input; So .com is far better seo than my domain wordpress then? I’ve put in a bit of work on my domain wordpress, I would like to duplicate that to my .com wordpress blog also. Is that going to be possible to run two blogs with duplicate content and have the .com update automatically?
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Duplicate content on the web will kill both blogs with the search engines as they will suspect you are a spam blogger (splogger) and they will throw both blogs into the search engine abyss.
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Thanks for that, don’t think my domain blog could do any worse on seo, pretty amazed as I’ve made a big effort on my domain blog, creating relevant tags, categories etc. So do you recon I should concentrate on my .com or own domain?
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Well, how long has the other blog been up? It takes time to build page rank and place higher in search engines.
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It’s only been up about a week, I know what you’re saying with a bit of time to build rank; it’s just that my .com was good rankings in a couple of days. Do you think I should persevere with my own domain.
I would prefer it on my own domain as it looks more professional I think.
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You know, it takes three to six months to really get “into” the search engines and start showing up higher in searches, and it also takes time for the search engines to crawl and get everything on your site indexed. They take a little bit, then go away, then come back and take a bit more.
Make sure you have a site map and a robots.txt file. Those help the search engines.
Also, make sure and validate your blog with at least with Google, Bing and Yahoo. Right now, http://ismyblogworking.com/www.preciseformwork.co.uk/wordpress is reporting that your blog has not yet been indexed. Sometimes the search engines are quick to find new blogs, and sometimes they are slower when there are a lot of things stacked up and waiting.
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Thanks a lot sacred; I’m new to blogging, I’ll update my sitemap, and look into robots txt file.
Much appreciated sacred- thanks. I’ll stick to my domain as it looks more professional and carry-out your suggestions. -
If you haven’t done it yet, search for “xml sitemap” in the wordpress.org/extends/ and download and use that. It will automatically update each time you make an addition and the search engines like having that information readily available since they don’t have to spend a lot of time searching for what is new.
On the robots.txt file, this is what I have (I changed the link to the sitemap at the top to what yours will be):
Sitemap: http://the-http://www.preciseformwork.co.uk/wordpress/sitemap.xml User-agent: IRLbot Disallow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /wp-admin Disallow: /wp-includes Disallow: /wp-content/plugins Disallow: /wp-content/cache Disallow: /wp-content/themes Disallow: /*?* Disallow: /*? Allow: /wp-content/uploads Allow: /?cat=* # Google Image User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: Allow: /* -
You can, of course, shut down the external site, map the domain to your WordPress.com blog, and gain the SEO benefits of WP.com with your own domain name. The only reasons to host outside would be if you need to run flash, iframes, or other banned code, or have to host ads or do ecommerce.
The domain mapping upgrade is $10 a year, I believe.
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@preciseformwork
I agree with raincoaster.If you don’t need to run embeds, iframes, Flash, javascript, etc. then domain mapping is the way to go. See here for details > http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/ -
So if I have a blog:
myownblog.com and I map it to WordPress.COM (and transfer the content) some magic SEO dust will be sprinkled on it?
Is there any difference between myownblog.com and myownblog.wordpress.com assuming they are both on WordPress.COM?
I guess the confusion to me is how a search engine understands the difference or do the tags from myownblog.com get mixed with the rest of the WordPress.COM tags?
Thanks much for any feedback
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