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Thanks for the suggestions. They were all good and stated about the same thing. &nbsp;I will go with the company as long as we can approve on the design and functionality. &nbsp;I have also decided to purchase backlinks from a 3rd party in order to help with search engine ratings.
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Thanks for the suggestions. They were all good and stated about the same thing.  I will go with the company as long as we can approve on the design and functionality.  I have also decided to purchase backlinks from a 3rd party in order to help with search engine ratings.

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&gt;&gt; purchase backlinks from a 3rd party in order to help with search engine ratings.<br />
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I wouldn't do that. &nbsp;The Panda will eat you alive.
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>> purchase backlinks from a 3rd party in order to help with search engine ratings.

I wouldn't do that.  The Panda will eat you alive.

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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda" rel="ugc">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda</a>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda]

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A company wants to build us a new website but will do it via wordpress. &nbsp;I have already expressed that I want it created in a traditional website form, but they argue that search engines do not treat them differently. Is this Correct? &nbsp;We already have a Wordpress blog on a subdomain of this URL already.
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A company wants to build us a new website but will do it via wordpress.  I have already expressed that I want it created in a traditional website form, but they argue that search engines do not treat them differently. Is this Correct?  We already have a Wordpress blog on a subdomain of this URL already.

Do search engines treat Hosted Wordpress Blogs differently than Traditional Websites written in html or php

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL for creating websites and blogs. Features include a plugin architecture, a template system and strong management, customization and search systems; through its dynamic presentation of content, webmasters have the flexibility to create websites easily.

WordPress

A blog is a discussion or informational site consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order. Blogs can be the work of a single individual but more recently "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and professionally edited and "microblogging" systems help integrate blogs into societal newstreams.