pageoneresults - 5:55 pm on May 5, 2006 (gmt 0)

I have found Typo3 to be an excellent CMS to work with for SEO. Sure the learning curve is obnoxious and it takes a while to customize it to be "search engine friendly" but once you get it up and going; managing it and adding new content is a pleasant experience.

I see this general sentiment quite a bit when reading CMS topics.

For most, rolling your own is going to be the best option. Each of us have different ways of doing things, laying out pages, etc.

The problem with using a "wholesale" type CMS is that you're limited to the default layouts if you are not code savvy and/or CMS savvy. This means thousands of websites out there generating the same footprints. What happens when users of that particular CMS start abusing it? Typically, the search quality engineers are going to start looking at footprints. If those footprints cross a certain threshold, into the depths you go.

I've been working with FrontPage for years and use it's built in facilities for managing content. I just recently started working with DWTs and have found that it's a great solution for creating a CMS that is a little more friendly for the type of sites I build. Also, I build the CMS components in while I'm building the site so it is totally customized to that particular website, I have no restrictions and only have to work with code that is relevant to what we're doing.

CMS may mean different things to different people. I have yet to see an all inclusive system that does everything one would need to do from a search engine marketing perspective.

There's a nifty little CMS for FrontPage called ContentSeed. I've not had the chance to build an entire site using it, but it is on my list of things to do. I like it alot and when I first did the demo, I was impressed and still am.