HTML sites vs. WordPress sites

[Whitegold]

According to a certain Mr Cutts ... html is a sign of quality over quantity ... please don't ask me where the link is, because it was some time ago when I watched the video concerning this

As regards coding and optimising, I always prefer html + css over wp simply because of the control of information you have over the spiders ... you tell it, this is what I want you to look at first, then this, then this etc .. whereas with wp the spiders have to trawl through a heap of script before ending up in the juicy parts of the content which can be a negative point if the coding / plugins are particularly code heavy ..

Ease of use then definitely WP, ease of control then definitely html ...

 

[jazzc]

whereas with wp the spiders have to trawl through a heap of script before ending up in the juicy parts of the content which can be a negative point if the coding / plugins are particularly code heavy ..

Programmatically, it is very easy to separate content from html tags. If an average programmer can create a script to do it in 10 minutes, do you thing Google bot has any problem locating the "juicy parts" with lightning speed?

 

[Zapdos]

WP and 'html sites' have one thing in common: they're both HTML sites.
There's no indication that google favors WP over custom sites, that would be absurd. If you can't rank an plain site easily, then don't blame google or your site. You just happen to suck at designing a good website layout and linking structure.

As for which is easier overall... If its a very small site, I'd go with HTML (but in reality I'd be using PHP as well since I don't want to recreate the header and footer 30x over). If you're planning to update alot, WP/Joomla/Drupal.