Why WordPress is Best for SEO
- August 18, 2021
- Bradley Taylor
WordPress, for those who don’t know, is an open-source platform with which you can use to build websites. It is what is known as a CMS or Content Management System. This means that any approved user to log-in and make changes to website or add content.
But WordPress has many more advantages than just website editing and content creation. The platform allows users to install unlimited plug-ins which all have their very own purpose. Want to add a poll to your website? There is a plug-in for that. Anything you can imagine there is a plug-in for.
But WordPress is also the best platform to use when it comes to the ability to optimize your website. In this article we will go over a number of those factors.
SEO Friendly Permalinks
WordPress allows you to customize your permalinks. This fact means that you can have all of your major keywords right there in the url. Look at the url of this article for example.
Meta Data
You can easily find and edit meta-tags within your pages. Meta data is still one of the better ways to tell search engines exactly what the purpose of your page is.
Fast Loading
WordPress has a myriad of plug-ins which allow you to really speed up your website load time. A major factor in search engine ranking is page load speed. You can use plug-ins like Jetpack and Autoptimize to make sure your pages are loading quickly.
Mobile Users in Mind
WordPress came out of the box with the idea that mobile users are the future of web browsing. Here we are 11 years later and that prediction has come true. Now, a full 66% of web browsers are using a mobile device. Sites in WordPress are responsive by default.
Conclusion
These are just several of the many advantages to using WordPress as your CMS platform. Users of WordPress already know about all of these advantages and that is why nearly 40% of all websites are built with this platform.
They constantly update WordPress to make it more useful and more SEO friendly. This is why using or switching to WordPress is a great idea for SEO.
