Wordpress or Blogger - Which one is best for search engine optimisation

Hi Mike, im considering setting up a free blog. Can you tell me if its better to use a Blogger blog or a Wordpress blog, from an search engine optimisation point of view.

Regards
Steve.

Hi Steve, thanks for your question.

I myself use Blogger and Wordpress. There is an seo plugin available for Wordpress blogs that automatically optimizes your titles for search engines. Generates META tags automatically, and avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs, which Google can penalize sites for.

It is also fully editable, and compatable with many other plugins like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others. So from the point of view of setting up your blog to be search engine friendly, then Wordpress is best, as Blogger does not have a similar plugin, yet.

You can download the plugin here http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/all-in-one-seo-pack.zip

Blogger does not have the flexibility that Wordpress has, but I think Blogger is easier to use for beginners.

I seem to get better search results with Blogger blogs. That may have something to do with the fact that Google runs Blogger, or it may just be coincidence.

Content has a lot to do with search engine results, so at the end of the day that is what counts ultimately, whether you have a Blogger blog or a Wordpress blog.

I hope this answers your question Steve, please let me know if you need more help.

To get your seo question answered, and posted on this blog, please email us at webordead@yahoo.com

SEO Advisory Service - Advice For Forum Owners.

As I said in my previous post, we would be starting a free SEO advisory service. Well here is the first question from Scott Nicol.

Hi, I am a student and website owner. I own The Seven Forums.com which is now running on fully paid for servers since around August last year and IPB, which put me back £75 about 1 month ago.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to really get the site to take off. Do you think you could help me out, and give some suggestions? The site is based around the upcoming Windows release Windows Seven, which has been rumoured to be coming out the 2nd half of 2009.

Thanks,
Scott Nicol



Hi Scott, thanks for your email.

Forum's are very hard to get off the ground.

You need to create interaction with your users. Posting on other related forum's and having your site in your signature is one way to attract people to your forum.

You can also employ paid posters to make your forum look busy which may encourage people to join in. They dont cost much and are always good to kick start a new forum.

You also need to work on SEO by generating back links from related sites to get your forum listed high in Google. This can bring a lot of traffic if done well. If you dont have the time to do your own SEO, you could outsource the work to an SEO Services company.

You can also promote your forum in Google or Yahoo groups.

Forum's are all about community, likeminded people discussing things that they all have a common interest in. You need to find those people and give them a reason to come to your forum.

Its not easy, but if you do manage to build a successful forum it can be worth a lot of money, and give you a lot of satisfaction.

I hope that this information has been of some help to you.

Best of luck with it.

Regards
Mike.