Google Algorithms Do Not Give WordPress Preferential Treatment

There are some rumors in the industry that Google's algorithms have a positive bias towards WordPress powered content management systems. The truth is, that is not true. WordPress blogs and CMSs are designed to be very search engine friendly - which makes it easy for GoogleBot to consume the content. But there is no algorithm that says to rank this site/page higher because it is built in WordPress.

Google's John Mueller said this on Twitter. He said "WordPress is a great CMS & works well in search, but afaik our algorithms don't explicitly check for any particular CMS."

Here are the set of tweets:

@AndyNRodgers @WordPress no. WP is a great CMS & works well in search, but afaik our algos don't explicitly check for any particular CMS.

— John Mueller (@JohnMu) November 1, 2016

So you can throw away that myth now.

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