Search Engine-aware CMS

Is there any Search Engine-aware CMS on the market?

[Luckasoft]

Is there any Search Engine-aware CMS on the market?

I tried Mambo; it is OK with URLs but does not have H1 tags and cannot assign meaningful names to sections and articles, which is a huge drawback from the SEO point of view.

Any advice? Or we are doomed to code HTML forever?

[moishe]

Look at Plone

[nuevojefe]

develop a custom one if you have the resources.

[arrowman]

I use Plone and I can do anything I want with it SEO-wise.

[mikec]

really any cms that allows you to provide templating should be fine.

for smaller sites, movable type or word press are very easy and customizable options.

[mystic cowboy]

mikec is right, any templatable CMS will work, including blogging software. Wordpress currently does not allow multiple blogs from a single installation, making it awkward for CMS. Movable Type does but has a commercial price starting at $200. For the same amount I prefer ExpressionEngine [snip]. MT is an excellent blog tool, which I've been using for over 2 years now (1200+ entries), but EE is designed as a CMS. It can also handle 1000 page sites. It builds pages with 'pretty URLs' and is SE Friendly. I've used several systems, including, Mambo, Drupal, Plone and PostNuke. Plone is powerful, but its management system isn't the easisest around. I's say the same for Drupal. Mambo is better but I've had problems with stability. Forget PostNuke or any of the PHPNuke based systems unless you specifically want a community portal. I far prefer Expression Engine to anything I've seen. But it isn't free.

If you don't want to pay and aren't handling large page numbers, CMS Made Simple is free and easily handles a 60 page site. [snip]. That's all I've used it for so don't know how well it scales. So far so good. I'd have no problems considering it for smallish sites, say fewer than 200 pages. I like its straightforward backend. And it's very easy to install, customize and configure. CMS Made Simple also can offer SE friendly URLs if your server includes mod_rewrite. That's on Apache.

Anyone looking for a SE friendly CMS should make sure your server has this capacity and your CMS offers the feature. It's pretty common and shouldn't cost any more.

You can demo dozens of open source content management systems at [snip]

[edited by: pageoneresults at 10:50 pm (utc) on Jan. 19, 2005]
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[reZen]

I use the Drupal CMS mod CivicSpace, and it it indexed fairly well by Search Engines.

[jaffstar]

Check our Mambo.. Its great, and you can get SE friendly module.

[Luckasoft]

Mambo is crap from SEO point of view. it does not allow H1 (at least I did not find such a template). So what are you talking about?

[outrun]

If your up for it try Typo3 with Realurl extension.

regards,
Mark

[Livenomadic]

I was with Mambo since the beginning, Mambo is horrible SEO wise.

If I had a full time developer: typo3 would be my answer.

Since I do not: I am happy with articlelive, still brand new and has a bunch of bugs, but it is the most customizable "out of box" CMS I have found. The developers made nothing related to the frontend hardcoded, so it is really awesome. Too bad making templates is a major hassle.

[jaffstar]

Mambo is crap from SEO point of view. it does not allow H1 (at least I did not find such a template). So what are you talking about?

Keep looking :) , there is an advanced SEO module that you can buy to make your urls friendly, its easy to customize templates/css if you know what you doing.

From the sounds of it, you don't!