Reply To: Does your CMS choice actually affect Google rankings anymore?

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Google (or any other search engine or answer engine) doesn’t care about your “CMS”.

What they care about, is the standards/structure, as well as the content.

If you can re-invent the wheel (start from scratch) and still manage to fully follow the rules and standards, you’ll rank up.

What certain CMS likes WordPress offer is time-saving and pre-defined/pre-implemented rules. (Otherwise, if you be a professional SEO specialist with technical knowledge, you know even WP needs so much optimizations when you really start doing professional works (both in performance and in even Basic SEO stuff)

I used to focus on custom solutions only. But since 2 years ago I invested more on WP and I’m still happy with the decision (I don’t know until when I’ll stay happy though. For now, I’m totally fine with it and I created my own “custom solutions” on top of WordPress. Saves a ton of time, and resources.