What is the most search engine friendly cms?

Ye' old general discussion board. Basically, for everything that isn't covered elsewhere. Come here to shoot the breeze, shoot your mouth off, or whatever suits your fancy.
This forum is not for asking programming related questions.

Moderator: General Moderators

Post Reply
User avatar
cturner
Forum Contributor
Posts: 153
Joined: Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:03 am
Location: My computer

What is the most search engine friendly cms?

Post by cturner »

As the above question says, I want to know what the most search engine friendly cms? It must be written in PHP and using mysql as the database. All comments are welcome. Thanks in advance.
User avatar
superdezign
DevNet Master
Posts: 4135
Joined: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:06 pm

Post by superdezign »

Well, I wouldn't say that any CMS is search-engine friendly from the start, as they tend to be extremely flexible and use a lot of query strings. But most of them provide add-ons and plugins that can make things such as the URLs, session handling, meta tags, etc. search-engine friendly. Are you particularly after a free CMS?
User avatar
cturner
Forum Contributor
Posts: 153
Joined: Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:03 am
Location: My computer

Post by cturner »

Yes I am after a free cms.
User avatar
superdezign
DevNet Master
Posts: 4135
Joined: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:06 pm

Post by superdezign »

Well if you want a free CMS, you might as well go with Drupal. It's open-source, so developers are always improving it to work for them, so you're bound to find a lot of plugins to help you out.
me!
Forum Contributor
Posts: 133
Joined: Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:45 pm

Post by me! »

I vote for PostNuke, I have only played with a few others but the PN team is trying very hard to meet web standards, and they have a good CMS code base.
User avatar
Kieran Huggins
DevNet Master
Posts: 3635
Joined: Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:14 pm
Location: Toronto, Canada
Contact:

Post by Kieran Huggins »

Drupal++
User avatar
CoderGoblin
DevNet Resident
Posts: 1425
Joined: Tue Mar 16, 2004 10:03 am
Location: Aachen, Germany

Re: What is the most search engine friendly cms?

Post by CoderGoblin »

As far as I am aware it is not a question of which cms to use, but what you do with the cms which is important as far as making things search engine friendly. Just because you have a paintbrush doesn't mean you can produce a masterpiece. If I were you I would do a little bit of research initially on how to make search engine friendly HTML pages. Then experiment around with some CMS' (a couple already mentioned here). Your goal is to find one which can produce your search engine friendly HTML pages quickly and efficiently according to your working style or at least one which you can get to grips with.
User avatar
Kieran Huggins
DevNet Master
Posts: 3635
Joined: Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:14 pm
Location: Toronto, Canada
Contact:

Re: What is the most search engine friendly cms?

Post by Kieran Huggins »

Clean URL's are an important factor as well
Post Reply