: Your question is a little vague. Are you asking about using a hosted WordPress blog (on wordpress.com) vs hosted? Or are you asking if WordPress itself has any SEO benefits over static websites?

@Jamie184

Your question is a little vague. Are you asking about using a hosted WordPress blog (on wordpress.com) vs hosted? Or are you asking if WordPress itself has any SEO benefits over static websites?

One of the major ranking factors Google uses to establish rankings is something called "domain authority." If you are using a subdomain of WordPress (e.g. mysite.wordpress.com) instead of your own domain URL (e.g. mysite.com) then you are sacrificing that domain authority. Each page will have to rank on its own merit. You are always much better off with your own top-level domain.

In terms of WordPress as a platform, it has several inherent SEO benefits. First, it supports URL rewriting which makes it easy to integrate your keywords into the URL - an important ranking factor. Second, there are lots of really helpful and effective SEO plugins. Finally, the more (quality) pages your site has, the more the search engines will like you. WordPress itself doesn't accomplish this, but it is one of the easier-to-use content management systems out there and makes it dead simple to publish content. None of these is exclusive to WordPress, but in my opinion it is the simplest "out of the box" solutions available right now.

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