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What is the most search engine friendly cms?

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:41 pm
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.

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:48 pm
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?

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:54 pm
by cturner
Yes I am after a free cms.

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:58 pm
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.

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:09 pm
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.

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:23 am
by Kieran Huggins
Drupal++

Re: What is the most search engine friendly cms?

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:36 am
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.

Re: What is the most search engine friendly cms?

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:01 am
by Kieran Huggins
Clean URL's are an important factor as well