WordPress vs Tekmatix for SEO, Google Ranking and Online Discoverability

The Short Answer

The platform you have built your web pages on, have NOTHING to to with SEO.

Google doesn’t care where you’ve hosted your domain (and nor does AI).

The platform itself is not the determinant of SEO success in 2025-2026.

Your content, metadata, domain authority, site structure, backlinks, whether visitors stay on your site or blog pages for more than 10 seconds, and consistently updated/published content is what impacts your SEO and AI GEO (generative engine optimisation).

Anyone who tells you that you have to be on a specific platform or builder to rank, doesn’t understand SEO and GEO at all, and is likely only trying to push a sale on a platform that they know how to use rather than one they don’t. 

The myth that “WordPress ranks better” is outdated and usually comes from SEO professionals who specialise in WordPress or have not kept up with modern SEO, especially LLM-based search (AI search), which changes the game entirely.

If your site isn’t ranking – it’s got nothing to do with where you’ve built the pages – and everything to do with HOW you are creating, publishing and sharing what’s on them. 

Why Some SEOs Still Say “WordPress ranks better”

There is a reason this advice still gets repeated:

1. Historical comfort

WordPress dominated SEO for DECADES.. It was the platform SEOs cut their teeth on, so there’s a natural bias toward what they know best (or what they ONLY know). 

2. Plugin ecosystem

Tools like Yoast or RankMath made SEO feel easy, and many consultants rely on them.

But Tekmatix has numerous SEO add-ons in the app marketplace AND a new advanced SEO add-on coming on 8th December 2025 (here’s a sneak peek of where you’ll find it):

There is literally nothing that WordPress can do re SEO, that Tekmatix can’t. 

3. Developer ‘control’

For enterprise, custom-coded SEO, marketing agencies or SEO providers often prefer WordPress because they can ‘take control’, using their knowledge and the customers lack of expertise in SEO as a ‘bamboozle’ card to keep a client and ‘lock them in’.

But at Tekmatix, you get access to Teksperts and our internal support team who can ‘call out’ and educate around the actual simplicity of SEO; giving the transparency – and thus power back to the business owner.

Why Tekmatix Websites Rank Perfectly Well

SEOs that ONLY know how to use WordPress will do what they can to get you to stick to what THEY have experience, confidence (and control) over.  

But here’s the truth they don’t want you to know:

1. Google does not rank platforms.

Google ranks content, user experience, site performance, visitor activity, and currency and relevancy.

Your hosting platform isn’t a ranking factor.  The reputation of your own domain is – regardless of where it is hosted. 

2. Tekmatix gives you complete control of:

• Page titles
  
• Meta descriptions
  
• Open Graph / Social previews
  
• H1–H3 structure
  
• Alt tags
  
• Clean URLs
  
• Page speed
  
• Sitemap submission
  
• Robots.txt access
  
• SSL
  

This is everything Google actually needs.

3. Site speed is excellent

One of the reasons WordPress sites fall in rankings is slow speed due to bloated plugins, outdated plugins, theme builders, caching conflicts and cheap hosting. SEO and web people need these things to keep breaking and require updating – because it gives them reasons to lock you in the ‘retainers’ and needing their dservices.

You don’t need to worry about any of that extra work, costs and lock-ins with Tekmatix, as Tekmatix can host your domain and runs at high speed. And you can hire our in-house Tekpserts whenever you need if you want techy tasks done for you.

4. Modern SEO is completely different to what it was a year + ago

Google’s algorithm has completely shifted to:

• High-quality content
  
• Topical authority
  
• E-E-A-T signals
  
• Brand reputation
  
• User engagement
  
• Regular content updates
  

None of these have ANYTHING to do with WordPress (or any other website builder).

Now with AI searches taking over Google searches – CONTENT and tagging and metadata matters the most – not the platform. 

5. Domain authority comes from backlinks and reputation, not hosting

Your domain could be hosted on WordPress, Tekmatix, Wix, Shopify or even hand-coded HTML.
Google does NOT care where you’ve ‘built’ web pages. 

It cares about:

• how long the domain has existed
  
• who links to it
  
• how often it’s updated
  
• whether the content is valuable
  
• brand signals across the internet
• How long people saty on your pages for
• Whether it has enough keywords and wording that adequately indexes what it is about
  

6. AI Referrals (LLM-based search) is rewriting the entire SEO landscape

This is a big one that many traditional SEOs are missing.

Search is now influenced by:

• AI Overviews
  
• Gemini citations
  
• ChatGPT web responses
  
• Claude search
  
• AI-powered browsers
  
• LLM-curated recommendations
  

AI Search and AI Referrals (which are rapidly now replacing traditional Google search) now rely on:

• Clear page structure
  
• Metadata
  
• Schema
  
• Regular updates
  
• Clean URLs
  
• High-quality long-form content
  
• Clear authority signals
  

Tekmatix supports ALL of this.

WordPress has no inherent advantage here whatsoever, and does nothing more than Tekmatix can do. 

LOOKING FORWARD: What Actually Matters for Ranking in 2026

Regardless of the platform, here’s what moves the needle now:

1. Publish weekly high-value content

Articles, blogs, FAQs, long-form guides.
This is what trains both Google and LLMs to recognise your authority, topics, keywords and who is visiting (and staying) on your pages.

2. Use correct metadata

Tekmatix makes this simple with detailed metadata, keywords and SEO customisation on every web page, funnel page and blog page.

3. Build topic clusters

One core idea, multiple supporting articles. In Tekmatix you can create unlimited blogs, in unlimited categories to maximise your search results. 

4. Interlink your content

This means adding backlinks and sidelinks to your own content and blogs.  This is huge for both Google and LLMs, as the longer somebody stays on your domain, the more positive the signals are on your domain. 

5. Maintain fast page speed

Tekmatix page speeds are fast, and you don’t have to pay extra for ‘clean up’ and ‘speed’ plugins that are constantly required on WordPress sites. It’s already automatically done. 

6. Generate backlinks

Guest posts, podcasts, partners, media features in other sites and pages get you a massive SEO boost.  It doesn’t matter where your website or their websites are built – its the backlinks to boost your domain’s reputation. 

7. Keep your domain healthy

Aged domain + SSL + no spammy pages + consistent updates = increased ranking over time. 

SEO is not about the ‘platform’, it’s about HOW you create, share and tag your content over time.

If an SEO ‘expert’ tells someone they must use WordPress, that generally signals more about THEIR skill set being limited to the one place they know (and thus sell), rather than the client’s success potential.

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