Hey everyone, I'm no designer or developer, so my understanding of technicalities and jargon is pretty limited. Anyway, the site our firm is currently working on is run in WordPress, and we are looking to move it into a new CMS. Originally, our developer was going to code it all in aspx, and code a back end. Unfortunately that will be very time consuming and expensive. At the moment, we are looking for a good PHP CMS, such as Drupal. Some of the requirements include a 'lot of flexibility, with php/seo friendly URLs'. The site is a financial affiliate site, so we would be integrating a lot of static and dynamic material together. Basically; Do you guys have any CMS suggestions which have lots of flexibility and is search engine friendly, it's also important that it has a decscent back end Rep+ for any helpful suggestions, Thanks a lot, Mike
You just explained Wordpress. Just follow the step to get SEO friendly URLs 1: Go into the Admin of your website. 2: Click Settings (Small letters to the top Right.) 3: Click Permalinks. 4: You should get a list of options. Right at the bottom there should be a option called Custom, with a text box next to it. 5: Add this to the box for Post name in the URL. /%postname%.html or this for Catagory+Post name /%category%/%postname%.html 6: Click the button right at the bottom called Save Changes. That will give something like this with the post name in the URL http://www.free-recipe.co.uk/diet-recipe-ebook-review-weight-loss-with-negative-calorie-foods.html
I suggest you to stick with drupal. its very stable, seo friendly and can be extended. and a great community to help. apart from drupal, i prefer plone , http://www.plone.org thats also a robust cms coded in python than drupal/joomla in php. the problem with plone is they have only small community and you didn't get a good python coder who is good in plone , as they build on zope architecture, very steep learning curve. for joomla,its also a good one, but when compare the seo features drupal is a better one. i don't have much idea about paid ones. if you need any help with drupal. let me know
i've use joomla for years.. and i think it's the best one, the have thousand of components, bots, and module. drupal is good too, but you have to spend more time to understand the works. [drupal has better output urls than joomla. nevertheless, my site developed with joomla, visitbandung.net, has a good position in google :d... page #1 on a quite competitive keywords such as "bandung"]
Already tried it. I found that the URL's had category and I thought oh ok, the permalink structure must be /%category%/%postname%. Turns out it's already just /%postname% , and yet category is still showing.