SEO Friendly CMS :: Out Of The Box

[Anthony Parsons]

I have been researching and researching different CMS to employ in a project and am hard pressed, not being a dynamic expert like some here.

I am curious to know from the dynamic guru's, which CMS is SEO friendly & User Friendly out of the box?

Does WebGUI with a mod-rewrite accomplish the same thing?

[Anthony Parsons]

Or Mambo with a mod-rewrite.....

[Nick W]

We had a pretty good discussion about SE friendly CMS (http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=210) a few weeks back.

HTH.

Nick

[Anthony Parsons]

Thanks Nick. I did a search and got nothing back, hence why I asked it. O'well, that answers the questions. Cheers mate.

[Nick W]

Most welcome ;-)

FWIW, I just had a look at the typo3 site, www.typo3.com and although it looks like a noob nightmare, if you're not shy about getting ur hands dirty, it looks like it might be worth a bash.

Let me know if you try it, I plan to, but 'at my leisure...'

Nick

[Anthony Parsons]

That's the one I've taken actually Nick. I am going to give it a bash on a sub-domain first, play with it and so forth, then if all goes well, implement it to run my main directory. I wanted something that will be SEO friendly straight out of the box, so I can write the new dynamic site straight over the existing static directory, so the engines will never blink during the process. The directory was made static for the obvious reasons to perform in the engines, which it has done quite well, but now becoming the other obvious factor, a nightmare to manage and time consuming as it is growing fast.

Hopefully this will do the job instead of having to employ my designer to build a CMS from scratch specific to the purpose. I will most definately keep you posted on this one Nick. Something like you said though, in my own time when I have it...yuk.

[Nick W]

so I can write the new dynamic site straight over the existing static directory, so the engines will never blink during the process


I'd say drupal is your boy for that. Url aliasing is one of it's strongest SEO features. But if typo3 can do it.....

Also, if it's a directory, and you can chuck a little money at it, get "Links2 SQL": www.gossamer-threads.com (u can customize the urls for any cat.)

Awsome software, truly awsome. A directory script that's better I have not found yet.

Nick

[Mikkel deMib Svendsen]

I have yet to see any dynamic (or static, for that matter) website that will be well optimized out of the box. The question for me is if the system I am getting is born with the ability to get indexed, how it is done and not the least what tools the systems have build in to adjust the variables that influence indexing and ranking (such as templates, linking structures, title and meta-codes etc).

The system itself is only 1/3 of the job and even the best systems can be implemented search engine un-friendly.

[Anthony Parsons]

Uuummm.....It looks like typo3 can do it by the matrix comparison. I have looked at the Links SQL...very nice. The problem is, is that I don't want any of these programs to adjust my site from it is set now. The standard web directory layout and design does not appease me at all.

If you look at mine for example http://www.anthonyparsons.com you will see from the homepage, through to the cat then sub-cat pages is unique to any other normal web directory that most CMS will cater or be able to modify and adapt to suit. Again though, I am no dynamic genius and don't know the full potential of it all.

This is why I'm thinking I may have to pay my dynamic genius I use to write a DB and architecture from scratch for me. Can these free versions recreate what I have existing?