Wordpress and SEO

One of the few advantages of a Wordpress.com website or blog is that it is likely to be hosted on a Wordpress server. As such it is likely to canned by search engine robots more regularly than a Wordpress.org website.

When you choose the Wordpress.com hosting and platform for your site you are likely to have your nameservers set to wordpress.com

As the servers are well known to the search engine robots and are on their list for regular spidering then you pages will be found quicker then they would if you nameservers are located elsewhere. This is the case if your domain name has been registered with another service. If you are running wordpress.org software on a hosting service other than Wordpress.com, and this would probably be the case if you did not take wordpress.com to have a "free" domain name for a year when you took out your subscription, then your pages will be much further down the list.

However, if you are using an independant hosting provider then you will be able to use Google Search Console to make requests to Google to index individual pages.

Wordpress nameservers

Normally the average wordpress.com is unaware of this setting. You you have chosen the "free" option and have a yourwebsite.wordpress.com URL then you will be using the Wordpress servers anyway.

What Wordpress say:

• ns1.wordpress.com
• ns2.wordpress.com
• ns3.wordpress.com

When the Village Hall website was initially written Wordpress.com was chosen by the original webmaster. The domain belchampwaltervillagehall.co.uk was registered by wordpress.com and as such it remains to be under the control of wordpress.com. Wordpress.com used TSOHost as a Domain Registrar.

In my time as the webmaster of the Village Hall website I was in contact with TSOHost but they could not deal with me as I was not the individual who registered the domain name.