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Hello,

First, we need to know, that SEO is not all about with what software your website is built. CNN blog and other popular blogs are built with WordPress, so why are they so popular? because of its brand.

SEO depends on a lot of factors, for example, website speed. Most faster websites rank higher than slower websites. So HTML based websites rank higher than slower WP websites. Why is this? Because HTML websites need less resources than WordPress. WordPress has PHP and database resources to load. However, not all WordPress websites are slower than HTML sites. HTML sites that aren't optimized (using video in their server, scaled big images, not clean coding, etc) can be slower than an optimized WP based websites.

Another factor in SEO, is uptodate content. Search Engine, like Google, put their users at first. Means, when we look for an info in Google, we want up-to-date information, like this year info or last year, and not 10 years ago outdated info. This means, it's easier to update a WordPress based site, than an HTML website. At this point, WordPress site ranks better.

Another factor, Social engagement. Most HTML bases websites are not having comment system, or social sharing buttons, means, they are less in social engagement. At this point WordPress can rank better.

Those example factors I mentioned above, is called, on-page SEO. SEO has on page, and off page SEO. So, it doesn't matter with what software you build your website, but how your website content is, how you build backlink, etc.

Now, which one will you choose? also depends on which kind of website you want to build, your knowledge and how much time you have.

1. Is the website you want to build requires a few pages or a lot of pages? If it requires only a few pages, say, company profile website that doesn't require "blog" than HTML websites are better, because not only faster, but it also not necessary to have big resources website with PHP and database connection like WordPress.

2. Are you good at HTML and CSS programming language? If not too good, then WordPress is your choice, because you don't need any programming language to use WP.

3. Do you have a lot of time to create the pages in HTML and CSS format? If you don't, then WP is the alternative, because you can just login and post.

If you are more advanced user, you can use HTML generator these days, you can take a look at Octopress.

http://octopress.org/

No, it's not true.

Apart from Answer1, there is a lot of information available showing Wordpress is, in most instances, much better for SEO. Just google for the info.

Yes, HTML is usually better if you have separate domain but if you are having a blogging site then you can go for WordPress.

For SEO I think its all how you optimize your site and your choice of keywords and keyword phrases and how you use them.

Here is a lesson part of a training course on SEO http://goo.gl/47j6j8

For the full training course follow this link: http://goo.gl/tSVPnX

Let me know if you have any questions or queries.

Best wishes and good luck!

I recommend the wordpress,because it is very easy to use and wordpress is friendly to google

5 reasons why WordPress is great for SEO -

1. WordPress does a great job with SEO, right out of the box:

WordPress sites for the most part are built with clean code. The default templates you start with (which can be replaced but form a solid foundation for building upon) are free of bloat. Whats more, WordPress offers you a lot of per-page customization, both with and without the need for plugins (more on those in a few).

Every page or post on your new WordPress site can contain a unique title, meta description, excerpt, a category or a tag, as well as a clean, search optimized URL string.

These are all incredibly important and a big part of why WordPress is great for SEO.

2. Its easy to find professional help

At the outset I mentioned you don’t need to be very technical to setup a WordPress site. This is true, but it surely doesn’t hurt to have access to technical resources for those times you run into issues or when you want to do something a little more advanced.

WordPress is run on literally millions of web sites, which means there are tons of developers out there who know the ins and outs of the platform. Easy access to developers is a major bonus for deciding to use WordPress for your web CMS. And, every SEO worth their salt is going to be familiar with WordPress.

3. Diversity in templates

For as many WordPress developers there are in the world, you can be sure there are even more WordPress template designers. In fact, there are large marketplaces out there dedicated to selling premium WordPress templates (also known as themes). You can even download and try hundreds of free templates from within your WordPress site itself.

One important thing to note – while WordPress outside of the box is good for SEO, not all templates put a premium on how well your site shows up in search. There are all kinds of different templates available, from e-commerce ones to portfolio to even church site templates. Typically, template designers will code their templates in concordance to good SEO fundamentals and will market their templates as being optimized for search.

4. Plug in baby

Plugins are various services that you can add to your WordPress site to enhance its functionality. Fortunately, some of the best plugins in the WordPress world are built around SEO. One of my favorites is WordPress SEO by Yoast, which gives you page level access to all sorts of optimization options.

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As you can see above, the plugin, which puts new options on your “Add a new post” page will walk you through the process of optimizing your content for search. Not only will it help you find the right terms to use, but it will score your content to make sure you are including those terms in key areas like the page title, meta description, headlines and body copy.

Advanced usages for Yoast include the ability to toggle whether search engines can index or follow links to and from a page, create a XML sitemap, and more. Highly recommended.

5. Does your site haul ***?

Search engines like Google have begun to put a premium on the speed your web site loads. Site speed is just one factor, but its becoming more important. WordPress fortunately is a speedy CMS, and can be even faster when using the WP Super Cache plugin which optimizes dynamic pages on your site for speed by creating static versions. That might sound technical, and it actually is, but suffice to say, WordPress is a CMS platform that understands the importance of the speed of your page loads. I’ll offer the same disclaimer above that I mentioned about templates and SEO – some templates are optimized for speed, so looking for those is advised.