I have been researching about SEO a lot and it seems like using CMS for the whole website is not a good practice. Well, that's what most people say in their blogs and other forum posts. Here's what I got so far : CMS has dynamic URLS and bad for indexing CMS have less control over meta tags Guessing from the two, I think those two are like the top two things the crawlers look for while reading your site. Correct me if I'm wrong. Now, I just want to hear more of other people's feedbacks and of course some relevant issues regarding this two industries not being a good combination, or should I say loveteam, on the web.
Well, I have read about mod_rewrite but never tried it yet. Are there any drawbacks mod_rewriting page names?
not only know mod_rewrite . most of cms s uses 'id s' to get content , for example page.php?id=3 . u must have some php knowladge and change the system . Then use mod_rewrite to turn them into html pages . ******************** RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)\.html$ index.php?page=$1 [L] ********************* you can change index.php?page=something to /something.html with it good luck
that aside, i think crawlers love fresh unique content more than anything else, which is what a cms is designed to facilitate.
MrBounce: That was my main scope. I know that search engines now are somewhat crazy over fresh content. With a CMS based website, this will be no problem at all (copy, paste, publish). So I am guessing, after publishing it is a good practice to use mod_rewrite to represent the content pages in order to allow crawlers to recognize them immediately as static pages before tagging or submitting to directories.
No, mod_rewrite is the best thing you could ever learn about for SEO.... and CMS's... and its a must for any kind of CMS nowadays.
Jupp, try out Joomla if you are looking for a good CMS systems that are easy to maintain SEO friendly.
Maintaining a big content based website which changes frequently can be a tough and difficult job without a CMS. And afterall modern CMS provide all the features including making URLs SE Friendly as well as allowing custom meta tags for different pages. There is nothing wrong with CMS.