Which Content Management System would YOU suggest that will get into the search engines 'better' than the others?

I'm wondering if there is a good Content Management System out there that is better optimized for the search engines.

Any suggestions?

In todays world of search, most CMSs are search engine friendly.

The question should really be, "How easy is it to increase the optimisation of the CMS?"

The answer to that depends on how much you're prepared to, or able to, modify the code of the CMS.

I've heard great things about Joomla (Free, open source, highly customisable and there are loads of plugins).

The issues that CMSs have with SEO are the URLs, duplicate content and templates.

One needs to find a standard URL format and be consistent, so that different URLs produce different content (and not a duplicate of another page, possible when the same variables are passed, but in a different order).

Then you'll need to pull apart the way the templating works to further optimise the pages. This could be placement of links, source ordering, etc etc.

I suggest you review the various CMSs that you're interested in and work out which one will be the easiest for you to customise

Then you'll need to pull apart the way the templating works to further optimise the pages. This could be placement of links, source ordering, etc etc.


This templating method is not easy to understand,
I am not familiar enough with it.

Would be nice if there is a sample recommended to refer.
Really appreciate for your further advise.

I personally use drupal because it suits my needs better

opensourcecms.com/

A CMS stores all the content in a database

When a page is requested, the programming logic in the CMS extracts content from the database and mixes it with the html template and the whole lot is then sent to the user.

Personally, I hate the way templating works in these comprehensive applications; so i generally build my own CMSs that suit my specific needs and are easily customised.

Have many powerful plugins for cms Joomla! They might create website more search - friendly (H1 - H5, readable links, keywords, meta tags, eliminate "duplicate content" and etc.) and easy to use. Most well - known components like as sh404SEF, OPENsef(NUsef), PatchSEF etc.

More information you could find on official website joomla.org

I have tried quite a few. For some reason I was unable to get Joomla to work, but I hear it is a good CMS. We chose Drupal.

Clean URLs are good for search engines. At the time of install we had a lot of concerns and didn't get that installed, but we rank in the first page on some results, and nearly all of our pages are picked up anyway. Even before we used Drupal, our clean URLs were not always picked up anyway.

Two things you will need to familiarize yourself with: CSS and a little PHP. You don't need to know how to program php, but you might want to back everything up. You can add the your ads to the php.

The CSS will help determine the overall look of your website. There are books about each, and there are at least two good books concerning Drupal.

There are also hosts that have turnkey systems for Drupal, Joomla, phpNuke etc. I have heard that Nuke was not too secure and can be hacked. I don't know if that has changed.

I personally use drupal because it suits my needs better

opensourcecms.com/

In our robots.txt we told the search engines to not index our Taxonomy. I don't know if you did that, but we noticed that our category pages (taxonomy) were showing up higher in the search results that the original content pages. Did you do anything like that?

Drupal works great BTW.

Drupal is best out of the box for clean URLs and seo friendly design (IMHO)

Joomla I use on a couple of my sites...and it is superb with some tweaking. There is many more templates and modules available than for drupal (as it has a much larger userbase) and sh404SEF is a superb extension for SEF URLS and seo niciness.

Although beware, it has a huge amount to it and for a beginner is very complex.

but once you pick it up (read the manual....) you will find it pretty easy

another vote for drupal.