Which is CMS is best for SEO?

louie_alcantara

Oct 3rd 2006, 9:23 pm

Hello,

there are several cms out there like drupal, mambo etc...

I just want to know which one is best for SEO? or is it best to build the sites ground up?

What are your experience?

thanks

Abhik

Oct 3rd 2006, 9:31 pm

whts a cms by the way?
this is a new turm for me ;)

Zedzero

Oct 3rd 2006, 9:32 pm

cms: content management system

tobycoke

Oct 3rd 2006, 9:39 pm

It's not that popular but I like Textpattern.
It has "clean urls" and categories.
You can customize the URL. It does not have to be the same as the page Title.
You can customize keywords for each post.
It is lightweight and does not add extraneous code the source. It's easy to get content to the top of the code.
Easy to add RSS.

Wordpress is my (very close) second choice.

Sxperm

Oct 3rd 2006, 9:49 pm

Wordpress for sure

abcde

Oct 3rd 2006, 10:50 pm

build your own :-) With TinyMCE modules..

seojig

Oct 3rd 2006, 10:55 pm

whts a cms by the way?
this is a new turm for me ;)

http://thegujarat.org/ this is good site for understandig CMS :)

Abhik

Oct 4th 2006, 5:47 am

Thanx seojig..
now I know what CMS is :)

jhmattern

Oct 4th 2006, 10:30 am

I'm not sure how great it is seo-wise, but I love using www.cmsmadesimple.org. The reason I go with that is simply because it can be incorporated very easily into any basic Web template, whether table-based or css. You just design the site like you otherwise would, and add a few simple tags where you want different content to go. Can't get much easier than that. It doesn't have a great blog feature or anything though, so I just use WP on a subdomain for that for the time being. All depends on what you want to do with it I suppose. :)

latehorn

Oct 4th 2006, 4:16 pm

blogger, wordpress, drupal

rishum

Oct 4th 2006, 7:02 pm

Wordpress all the way!
With the host of plugins available for it and the massive development community, what else could ever beat it?

louie_alcantara

Oct 5th 2006, 8:21 pm

thanks for all the reply... is wordpress lightweight and does not add excessive code the source?

toonsgig

Oct 5th 2006, 8:34 pm

XOOPS and Mambo is very good CMS, these are easy to use and customization

Sxperm

Oct 5th 2006, 9:27 pm

thanks for all the reply... is wordpress lightweight and does not add excessive code the source?

Yes it very light and all pages generated from wordpress passed through w3c validation itself. :D don't worry about excessive source code.

louie_alcantara

Oct 13th 2006, 9:14 am

hello,

I tried mambo and its really not good for optimization... SE gets a hard time indexing it.. just my experience =)

frankcow

Oct 13th 2006, 9:16 am

hello,

I tried mambo and its really not good for optimization... SE gets a hard time indexing it.. just my experience =)
not true at all. There are several SEF URL components that make Mambo/Joomla fantastic for SEO

daworm

Oct 13th 2006, 9:47 am

Joomla is the best. Check out the latest 1.5 release

frankcow

Oct 13th 2006, 9:51 am

what are the new features?

saadahmed007

Oct 13th 2006, 10:41 am

I've used drupal and it's seo friendly script.Infact theres some mods for drupal which you can install and can make it even more seo friendly used wordpress aswell but for few days only :p
Saad :)

iatbm

Oct 13th 2006, 10:45 am

the answer is sNews - http://www.solucija.com !

tryme1

Oct 13th 2006, 10:50 am

sNews is good, as iatbm suggests. I use CuteNews (http://cutephp.com ) with some mod_rewrite stuff going on for my soccer site at http://www.premiershiptoday.co.uk - that one is good for news/article sites.

But even easier and more flexible than all these is WebsiteBaker, from http://www.websitebaker.org . 100% SEO friendly out of the box and extremely customizable.

CCD

Oct 13th 2006, 11:01 am

Depends on what you're trying to achieve, how complex the site will be etc.

Wordpress is very good if you only need a relatively simple site, for more complex stuff I use Xaraya - which is incredibly powerful and flexible, but not the easiest of tools to get to grips with.

BFTUK

Oct 13th 2006, 11:10 am

Great thread, i'm yet to find my perfect CMS, but this thread has thrown up a couple of very interesting 'new' systems, that i'll be checking out.

Joomla and wordpress are my current preferred choice, but i find Joomla a little complicated.

louie_alcantara

Oct 13th 2006, 8:20 pm

the thing i like about wordpress is the code is very light and the url it generates is great... google also seem to like it very well. Joomla is very good if you need a
more complex site, but the code seems to be heavy... Can you guys post urls of
the site you did with the CMS that you used? thanks

phd

Oct 14th 2006, 7:48 am

Joomla is a very good CMS, if your point of view is more towards SEO then go for text-pattern. or if you want more functionality and wide variety of tools and go with Joomla.

CCD

Oct 14th 2006, 7:53 am

k, here's 2 examples from me:

http://www.nikitamoore.com uses Wordpress with K2

http://www.novocasa.com uses Xaraya

I mostly use Xaraya these days, e.g. my current dev project is here: http://www.uvr.uk.com

affnice

Oct 16th 2006, 6:52 pm

Joomla ... just install addon SEFURL and you get SEF CMS

Sxperm

Oct 16th 2006, 7:03 pm

If you prefer content management to use with contents only, have lightweight and sef you can choose wordpress, but if you need CMS that complex and have many modules/components/add-on to use you may choose Joomla.

Notice one thing, sef url components for Joomla is work very well with Joomla itself, but for many external components you may have to find sef_ext.php to make sef components (like Opensef) work with them. :D

cheers,
sxperm