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How do WordPress and headless CMS platforms differ for technical SEO control?

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We are choosing between WordPress and a headless setup. Which architectural decisions matter for crawling and metadata?
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Both can support excellent SEO if implemented well. Compare who controls server-rendered HTML, routes, canonical tags, redirects, sitemaps, structured data, and cache invalidation. WordPress packages many capabilities through core, themes, and plugins; a headless stack may require explicit frontend and deployment engineering. Test a direct request to an article URL and verify meaningful HTML without client-side hydration. Also evaluate editorial permissions, maintenance, security updates, and total ownership cost. Architecture alone does not confer rankings.
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