Wordpress vs. Typepad

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I looked, but haven't been able to find previous posts comparing the two, so here I go.

I'd like to create 5-6 blogs at some point, with a not-so-bloggy look.

It seems that Wordpress is the rave right now, but is Typepad still any good?

If any of you could give me a few pros and cons about both, I'd much appreciate it.

Thanks
 


brianpaxton said:
I looked, but haven't been able to find previous posts comparing the two, so here I go.

I'd like to create 5-6 blogs at some point, with a not-so-bloggy look.

It seems that Wordpress is the rave right now, but is Typepad still any good?

If any of you could give me a few pros and cons about both, I'd much appreciate it.

Thanks
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I've used both Wordpress and Movable Type and they are both fantastic. I'm a complete newb to the whole SEO thing, but based on what I know and the fact that I'm a lazy bastard ;) I've found that customizing MT to be SEO-friendly to be much easier than with Wordpress. That being said, the available themes and the install thereof for Wordpress is far superior.

So in summary: if you care more about making the blog pretty and more difficult to make SEO-friendly, use Wordpress. If you like the ease of which MT creates static, SEO-friendly pages at the expense of beauty, use MT.

Oh yeah, and remember: I is just a newb, so take my recommendations with a grain or 6 of salt.
 
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I've used both Wordpress and Movable Type and they are both fantastic. I'm a complete newb to the whole SEO thing, but based on what I know and the fact that I'm a lazy bastard ;) I've found that customizing MT to be SEO-friendly to be much easier than with Wordpress. That being said, the available themes and the install thereof for Wordpress is far superior.

So in summary: if you care more about making the blog pretty and more difficult to make SEO-friendly, use Wordpress. If you like the ease of which MT creates static, SEO-friendly pages at the expense of beauty, use MT.

Oh yeah, and remember: I is just a newb, so take my recommendations with a grain or 6 of salt.
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Those are both good points. Also keep in mind that there are a ton of plugins available for wordpress. There are also some easy ways to make wordpress more seo friendly with some of those plugins.
 
BNWFinance said:
I've found that customizing MT to be SEO-friendly to be much easier than with Wordpress.
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Can you explain how SEO stuff is difficult with Wordpress? You do have the ability to customize the permalinks quite easily and most themes are pretty well designed for SEO. You probably should do a minor tweak to the title tag, but other than that, it's a pretty solid SEO friendly CMS. Maybe I'm missing something?
 
Well it wasn't asked, but I'll suggest TextPattern to you. It's really light weight, SEO friendly, great Forum for support and other issues, and has a ton of plugins to do pretty much anything you can think of with your site. If you're interested in seeing what TXP can do...go here: http://txpmag.com/all_sites
 
What a pointless thread.. WordPress without a fucking doubt! WordPress is not only a blogging format, but one hell of an impressive CMS that easily trumps popular ones out there like Joomla. WordPress for life sucka!
 
Jon said:
What a pointless thread.. WordPress without a fucking doubt! WordPress is not only a blogging format, but one hell of an impressive CMS that easily trumps popular ones out there like Joomla. WordPress for life sucka!
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No doubt. Plus you have to pay for TypePad, come on now... Basic shitty marketing: less cost more profit.
 
For a newbie like me, the best part about Word Press it has so much tech support! Not only does their site have a lot, anyone can go to just about any internet entrepreneur forum and find help. You are never alone when it comes WP.
 
Squirrelinabox said:
Can you explain how SEO stuff is difficult with Wordpress? You do have the ability to customize the permalinks quite easily and most themes are pretty well designed for SEO. You probably should do a minor tweak to the title tag, but other than that, it's a pretty solid SEO friendly CMS. Maybe I'm missing something?
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The main thing that makes proper SEO difficult with Wordpress is that WP uses dynamic pages, whereas Moveable Type makes static pages. From what little I understand of SEO, the "people" at Google penalize dynamic pages. Also, it is much easier to produce those static pages with titles and URLs that are SEO-friendly. I've tried doing this in Drupal, Mambo, Joomla, Wordpress, and now Movable Type, so my experience in this is still limited, its just what I've found is easiest.
 
BNW - you are worseless! in wordpress simply make your urls seo friendly it is as simple as adding %postname% in your custom permalinks section of wordpress all the other stuff is nonsense, read cutts, I think it is even on video that the dynamic pages are not penalized in google at least not anymore!
 
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