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How WPEngine Is Failboating Your SEO and Leaking Your Information

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Re: How WPEngine Is Failboating Your SEO and Leaking Your Information

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Post by eli »

This seems like someone with an axe to grind.

The SEO issues identified seem incredibly minor and the "leaking personal information" apparently refers to the fact that if you use WP-Engine to publish a prerelease version of your site on the internet... that means it's published on the internet.

Re: How WPEngine Is Failboating Your SEO and Leaking Your Information

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Post by jaredmck »

I get that it's easier to set up WPEngine, but this seems like one of those cases where you might be better off learning what to do - just set up a self-hosted VPS with nginx + varnish?

At least if you're gonna have multiple sites, this WPEngine is expensive stuff.

Re: How WPEngine Is Failboating Your SEO and Leaking Your Information

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Post by tribe2012 »

I've spoken to a former Googler that was on the search team, and he said the duplicate content isn't as big of a deal as one would expect. They realize when it is and isn't an issue. For example, blog reposts do not hurt you (in fact they may help you) even though they show up as duplicate content.

Just my 2 cents. I'm not a fan of WPEngine anyway.

Re: How WPEngine Is Failboating Your SEO and Leaking Your Information

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Post by dwightww »

The author's site (http://www.jacobking.com/) says "I just launched a kick ass WordPress SEO audit service, check it out - AuditWP.com".

Regardless of the validity of the information, which others have commented isn't as problematic as he states, there are better ways to "responsibly disclose" this information than doing so via a spammy marketing campaign to launch your own somewhat competing service.

Notice he uses wp engine's twitter handle rather than their official name in the headline - to maximize seo. Also the main image is an over the top shock photo. Sleazy stuff

Re: How WPEngine Is Failboating Your SEO and Leaking Your Information

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Post by eli »

tribe2012 wrote: post #6

I've spoken to a former Googler that was on the search team, and he said the duplicate content isn't as big of a deal as one would expect. They realize when it is and isn't an issue. For example, blog reposts do not hurt you (in fact they may help you) even though they show up as duplicate content. Just my 2 cents. I'm not a fan of WPEngine anyway.

I would be shocked if there's any sort of duplicate content penalty for having two different domain names point to exactly the same site (same IP and everything).
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