WordPress Out-Ranks Joomla in SEs?

Posted on June 8, 2007
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Real Estate Professionals Note WordPress Ranks Higher, Faster than Joomla

At first I didn’t think so but after careful examination of many sites that I’ve built for Realtors I’ve noticed that those with blogs on the front page tend to rank higher and faster than those that have blogs as either internal such as /blog or as a sub domain. Now my findings could be entirely wrong and I’m in no way suggesting this is 100% fact but I will state that its 100% true in all cases I’ve examined and even in my two new sites its true.

Three months ago I decided to conduct a test to verify my suspicion. I build a site with a WordPress blog in front and a Joomla site in a sub folder and inside of 4 weeks the first set of blog posts had already shown up in Googles search. I made absolutely sure that the subjects were key word terms NO ONE would search for as to filter out competing results. Anyone can rank #1 especially if you have terms no-one searches for and that was my objective in this case. So before you say “IDIOT! Why on earth would you try and rank for a term No-ONE uses”? I only wanted to index that single term to see if it would rank faster than the similar term in Joomla did and sure enough I verified my suspicion.

Ok so what does this mean. Well for me next to nothing because I build all my Realtor clients sites with matching integrated designs anyway. I often put the Joomla menu in both WordPress and OpenRealty so consistency is controlled from one location, so for me, putting WordPress up front is perfectly ok. The fact that the WordPress Loop (WordPress Loop) which is pretty much standard can be customized in such a way as to make WordPress behave more like a CMS than many give credit. Its gives me flexibility in what I’m seeking and naturally since we are publishing a Free WordPress Real Estate Listings Plugin its beneficial to put WordPress at the front door.

I’d love to tell you all about this but, I’m still getting feedback from others I’ve told this to a few months ago and now that are test results are coming in I’ll make a detailed post over on TheBrokersEdge before I post anywhere else. So which is better or should I say which is the better way to go?

WordPress Blog vs Joomla Blog

My own site will be changing too. Even though I had planned for some time to change my design and put my blog in a sub folder and Joomla up front I’ve since changed my mind and the new design will simply accommodate a new philosophy and approach. After purchasing commercial licenses to SEF Advanced and a few other tools I now realize I can do some unique stuff in a way I had rarely considered before. You’ll love it!

Now Joomla has a blog or should I say its default posts are technically a blog type layout which you can stack posts one after the other on the front page. Case in point that articulates this more so than not is the APPROVED and AUTHORIZED clone I got hired to do for a gaming site. The gaming site to be cloned was in all English and the target was all Spanish (which I speak very little of) and the choice for them was Mambo. This gaming site uses a blog method in Mambo to display its posts and ranks quite well for its particular genera.

But which is the better method, WordPress or Joomla up front?
Well for me its WordPress as the front end and Joomla simply in a sub-folder /articles and I’ll be doing all my sites this way that I personally own. I’ll simply write posts in my blog and then provide a link to full detail graphically rich articles in my Joomla install. Joomla gives the option of doing unique things specific to many business types that desire to have a CMS for content management but WordPress, to me, gives the kind of freshness and comfort my target audience is interested in. Facts are facts, people really admire WordPress blogs and routinely visit them, link to them and quote from them in my experience more so than other types of sites.

To look at the APPROVED CLONE I mentioned above you can visit these screen shots below. Keep in mind I DO NOT CLONE other peoples work without permission EVER! Enjoy!
Site design to be cloned.
Target site with Mambo Template

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