Categories and Tags are "META" pages - generated by the Wordpress ap rather than by the user.

Posts and pages are generated by the user.
"G" prefers content over an internal "filing system"

Only link to category pages if you are using stuff like Link Farm Evolution and have generated your own categories on 3rd party WPMU sites or similar.
On your own link to POSTS.

Finally (for those who need telling) if you use an automated bookmarking tool and bookmark "category" or "tag" pages YOUR BOOKMARKS PROBABLY WON'T STICK AND YOUR ACCOUNTS WILL LIKELY GET BANNED. (at least by the "big boys")

Serach engines aren't stupid - The people that own them often are.. but the algorothm's know the difference between proper content and internal website filing system machanisms like categories and tags.
While you can link to categories - it is no where near as effective as linking to posts and pages.


It's not fecking rocket surgery or brain science

Originally Posted by Scritty

Categories and Tags are "META" pages - generated by the Wordpress ap rather than by the user.

Posts and pages are generated by the user.
"G" prefers content over an internal "filing system"

Only link to category pages if you are using stuff like Link Farm Evolution and have generated your own categories on 3rd party WPMU sites or similar.
On your own link to POSTS.

Finally (for those who need telling) if you use an automated bookmarking tool and bookmark "category" or "tag" pages YOUR BOOKMARKS PROBABLY WON'T STICK AND YOUR ACCOUNTS WILL LIKELY GET BANNED. (at least by the "big boys")

Serach engines aren't stupid - The people that own them often are.. but the algorothm's know the difference between proper content and internal website filing system machanisms like categories and tags.
While you can link to categories - it is no where near as effective as linking to posts and pages.


It's not fecking rocket surgery or brain science

But what is way to solve this problem?
For both category and homepage.

I agree that you would probably get banned from a bookmarking site if you links to a category page - but only if you do not have any real info on the category page, that isn't present anywhere else on the site.

Should i use just posts for content i need to get ranked. Lets say i have category called: "bmw cars" and i inside i have various models of bmw.

If i wish to rank for term BMW should i create separate page ?This page would have all info regarding BMW cars. And i would probably include links at the bottom of the page to various bmw models i have reviewed.

wordpress is the best thing & html, joomla all those are heavy while wp is light. wp is the one serps love. don't get confused. search for a keyword or affiliate product term, & you'll see 80% of sites are wp.

Originally Posted by adventurouslover

Guys:

I have read in different posts that using wordpress hurts you to rank well in G?

Is this true? and why?

That's NOT true. Even Matt Cutts uses WP at his personal blog

Haha this make me want to write an article "Breaking News: Wordpress Hurts SEO"

Google loves wordpress! wp is better then joomla.

Not sure WP always worked for me,Anyway theres one way too figure out? Go ahead and take ACTION!

Originally Posted by madoctopus

Out of the box WP does not support:

• Custom page titles (can be done with plugins)
• Meta description & keywords
• Permalinks like /category/ and /category/post/ (can be done with plugin but u have to modify plugin for best result)
• Any advanced stuff
• Permalinks are not very flexible. Can be configured with plugins but having permalinks like /postname/ affects performance because WP is designed by drunk kindergarten kids.

I completely disagree on the permalinks, they are incredibly flexiblw and you can do "/category/post/" You go under settings, then custom permalinks, you can have it however you like, even with the date, time and month in the URL!

(For anyone who wants to do this the code is: "/%category%/%postname%/")

No plugins are needed for the permalinks.

geez, oh so many WP fans here.
I'm about to swap my site to WP from blogger :P

Originally Posted by bertbaby

Don't you love it the way people make up !@#$ and then spread the manure about as though it was gospel.

your argument was valid until the last word lol

dude youre living in la la land