How well might this CMS do with Google?

Komplete Lite CMS and Google

[john_last]

(or even your 2 penneth given that I'm from the UK ;o) )
Hi Guys,

You may remember me from way back when, when I posted a message regarding Mambo open source CMS & Google. Well after the negative comments I decided it was not a good option.
Sooooo....
I have now come across Komplete Lite which I think looks promising. I have to make a fast decision on whether or not I should go with this so I welcome any comments ( esp. from Googleguy as he was most helpful on the last round :o) )
The guys that I am using this for don't have a whole lot of cash hence the OS route.
As I understand url posting here is a "faux pas" just goto Google and search for "Komplete Lite" and voila you can all see what I am rabbiting on about.
Well lets see what you think.....

Many Thanks

John

[Tartan75]

I have no specific knowledge of this system, but I can suggest a few points for you to look into to verify if this or any other system is likely to have a negative effect on search engine rankings.

Are the pages served nice 'clean' html?

Is there anything about the links/urls that would prevent google from following them, etc, such as:
* url encoded session ids
* forms as the onlu navigation method
* client side scripting for navigation

[itools]

You want the CMS to produce static HTML documents. Many create dynamic pages, and these are largely ignored by Google and the other SEs.

So, take a browse through their demo and see if the pages look like this:

/directory/publishedpage.html (good)

or this:
/cmssystem.cgi?post=3456 (bad)

We hacked our forum software so that it publishes static HTML documents, and our traffic with Google has risen DRAMATICALLY.

[Tartan75]

Many create dynamic pages, and these are largely ignored by Google and the other SEs.

This is primarily because these are prone to the faults i described above, rather than the fact that they are dynamicaly generated in itself. Even if the system produces static html, then still ensure the pointe raised above.

[acostin]

Hi,

I am Alexandru from the Komplete Lite team.

I can assure you Komplete Lite works ok with google, and as a testimony you should search on "Komplete Best Practice Guides" - which will take you directly to one of our indexed page from the Komplete full demo (the same style of URLs apply).

So go ahead and use Komplete Lite.

Please also let us know your site, we'll be glad to take a look at it and even advice you for customization.

Alexandru

[john_last]

Thanks all for the replies and useful info. Special thanks to Alexandru. Komplete lite looks good for my needs, hope you will stick around in these forums to pick up and impart information for cms software. Pls check your stickymail.

[jrobbio]

If you are using an Apache server, you can use Mod_rewrite to make it search engine friendlier. There is an IIS equivalent, but I'm not able to recall it at this moment.