Search Engine Friendly CMS

Can anyone give me a recommendation?

[petertdavis]

There is such a wide variety of CMS programs out there, and I've seen how some get lots of pages indexed in Google, and some get hardly any at all. I was wondering if anyone could recommend which CMS to use that would be the most search engine friendly. Or, perhaps I should say which CMS will hurt me the least in Google?

I bought out a website that covers a specific small city a while ago, and it's very disorganized. It's already not indexed very well, though it's just html files. I was thinking of converting it over to something like PHPNuke, so I could take advantage of the features that a fully developed CMS offers. It would make it much easier for me to post articles, I could integrate a message board, have user registrations, and such.

It's a real shame that Google penalizes such sites, but I'm looking at implementing this in a manner to limit that. Thanks for any recommendations.

[jatar_k]

[webmasterworld.com...]

there is a link in there to another thread also. I just did a quick site search [webmasterworld.com] for 'CMS' and came up with a bunch of threads.

[edited by: jatar_k at 9:27 pm (utc) on Aug. 8, 2003]

[bunltd]

Hi petertdavis. I am in the process of setting up a site using WebGUI by Plainblack - it has many of the same features as PHPNuke (articles, surveys, polls, user accounts, etc.), but is written in Perl. All the urls are short and search engine friendly, no session ids and in most cases no variables, it was written to be search friendly.

LisaB

[NeedScripts]

Are you familer with phpnuke? We all know it is a wonderful software.... If I am not wrong... they have a mod where you can make it have static url.

also, I would recommend you to look into [e107.org...] it is a fun CMS which search engine spiders do index :)

Hope this helps.

NS