Is Wordpress the best site type for SEO?

I am currently using a blogger blog and find it to offer only small amounts of customization, but it is simple to use. I have been hearing from everyone that WordPress is the way to go, why? If not WordPress then what. We have photography and wedding companies and use flash websites, but it is like pulling teeth to get them to rank.

I have to build another website, and have had a free WordPress account and got intimidated very quickly, as it seemed to be a tool box with a bunch of tools I had never seen before.

Feedback is greatly appreciated.

As a total wordpress amatuer, can't offer any tutorial advice, but found it fairly easy to work my way round, and using the standard latest wordpress theme, it's fully customisable if you edit the css or any of the template files, guess it depends what your after.

SEO wise, this was reccommended to me: WordPress SEO Plugin - Search Engine Optimization Plugin - Yoast supposed to better than the older all in one plugin everyone used to rave about.

The above Yoast site itself has lots of good stuff for the wordpress newbie

I moved your other post here, as I'd already answered that, and they were quite similar.

Are you going to host the blog yourself, or use the WP hosted blogs? Reason I ask is because with a WP hosted blog you are limited (extremely so), but then your blog will have some form of SEO that you can do. You just cannot use plugins .

If, however, you are going to host the blog using a hosting company, your outlook is infinitely better. You can use plugins to your heart's desire and there are many SEO plugins available that you can use. You can also use jetpack, which you can then link to a WP account to connect your blog with wordpress, and so increase your traffic possibilities.

To get around the coding is easy. You only need a decent knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS etc. if you are planning to create your own templates. If you just want to create the blog, use a template, and make posts etc. then you don't need a lot of knowledge about either unless you need to troubleshoot. If you like, I could help you set it up, send you a few notes etc. so that you can create the site, set up wordpress etc.

One site I know has really great templates that are SEO minded is Woo themes. Most of their templates have their own SEO settings you could tweak to get the most out of your blog.

Wordpress have some great plugins for SEO - take a look at the 'All in one SEO' plugin if you do decide to go with Wordpress.

Wordpress is optimized already and is search engine friendly from the very beginning which is why google loves it and favours it over an average blog. Its optimization but without the stressful implementation as you only have to bear a fewer things in mind for optimization compared to a full on site using, joomla for example.

Haven't heard from them in a while. I wonder if their problem was sorted out?

Any webhost with Cpanel + Fantastico lets you set up a WP install fairly easily.

Then you get a nice free Theme.

Then you install a free SEO plugin which has lots of good reviews.

Job done

WP: really great software. Amazing how easy it is to get a site going.