Whats better for SEO a wordpress site or a HTML site?

[byronc]

For all you SEO's what has a better outcome in regards to optimization a wordpress site or an html site and why?

thx :)

There is no difference, if your a beginner the word press sites may be good for seo as there are plenty of plugins etc to help you.
The only problem is many of the plugins contain text and links back to the author which loses you some google juice to them.

If your advanced a html site will give you greater control and save you having to hack though someone else code/ php/ templates which you get with WP.

dont get me wrong WP is one of the world best blog platforms.....

[jimmau]

Well I have a preference for wordpress as GG seems to like it and it is easiest to use. But Joomla and Dupral are not bad either.

[eUKhost]

I think a wordpress site is more easy to optimize it for search enignes. There are many such plugins released to help to get best through the search enignes, one of the most popular is the All In One SEO Pack plugin.

[evolvebranding]

Either one as long as web designer knows on-page seo, static is simple enough, wordpress uses many seo plugins, i always use yoast seo.

[textmi]

I prefer Wordpress whenever I design a website because search engines likes the structure of Wordpress sites, it's easier to maintain and it has a multitude of SEO plugins.

[Corrosive]

because search engines likes the structure of Wordpress sites

Like any other site though it is only as good as the person structuring it and the knowledge of semantics by the person adding/editing the content. I've seen some very poorly marked up Wordpress sites in my time. I see what you are driving at as Wordpress does encourage good practices but you can make a mess of it if you try.