Blogging Software - what is Google Friendly?

What is the best to use?

[trinorthlighting]

Alright bloggers, I have a client that wants to set up a blog. We typically just do ecommerce sites and I am looking for some suggestions on the best to use. I would like some turn key software with these options:

1.100% W3C Compliant
2.Can Display Adsense
3.Google Friendly URLS
4.No duplicate URLs in navigation
5.Easy to use

Does anyone have any good suggestions?

[skweb]

Though I was initially against Blogger.com, with the latest updates, I love it - make sure that you host it on your own domain.

It is easy to use and has everything that you are looking for.

[M_Bison]

I've just setup Wordpress with all of those five attributes.

Although I actually modified quite a bit of the source code, there are a lot easier ways to make it search engine friendly.

[jretzer]

Both of my (relatively) successful, and well-indexed blogs are run on ExpressionEngine

[trinorthlighting]

We do not want to do any modification, we want something that is turn key. We already have the domain.

So I guess word press is out.

Does Expression Engine meet all the requirements?

We are going to offer our customer a choice.

Blogger.com looks easy to use.

[encyclo]

> We do not want to do any modification, we want something that is turn key

WordPress does 1,2,3 and 5 out of the box, but not 4. I don't think you are going to find a script which will not require any modifications.

WP also is a common vector for automated attacks, so it is a good idea to make changes to the footprint. You will need to keep it up to date with all the security patches.

[trinorthlighting]

I think we are going to steer clear of word press just beause of number 4. We do not want to worry about duplication....

Blogger.com looks like the only one so far....

I am suprised that all the blogging software does not meet the minimum requirements.

[lfgoal]

Blogger is good. But you have to be careful. Recently, there was some kind of flub where random sites had nofollow and noindex tags inserted into their source code. This was not visible in the source code that you could see in the template but it outputted to the posted pages. I found out about it on marketing pilgrim and was shocked to find it on one of my own blogs. The fix was removing the blogmetadata tag and then hardcoding the template.

Other things...if you syndicate the pages through a feed (and if you don't you won't show up in blogsearch, which for traffic is not that important but its good to be seen there for the purpose of gaining blogroll backlinks), you might want to choose the short snippet version so you don't wind up with duplicate content issues later. Of course, submitting it to some of the better blog directories might not be a bad idea either.

I tried keeping comments on for a while because it stimulates backlinks if people can participate, but the spam stuff, even with the use of capchas got to be too irritating so I turned comments off at some point.

I don't know about other blog services but with blogger if you have the content, backlinks, and pagerank you can perform very well in google search.

[narsticle]

Wordpress is great, you can even set your URL structure to be SEO friendly.

[trinorthlighting]

We would need comments on, wordpress has duplicated content it seems. Does wiki have any blogging software? Wiki software fits the requirements listed above.

May be I should create some software with the above listed requirements and sell it, lol

[icedowl]

You might also want to take a look at MovableType. I use it as well as WordPress (on different domains).

[trinorthlighting]

Wordpress does not meet the duplicate content issues as layed out in the thread.

After a lot of research today, the only one that is close is blogger.com

Anyone else?

[BillyS]

>> think we are going to steer clear of word press just beause of number 4. We do not want to worry about duplication....

Matt Cutts doesn't appear to worry about that...

[plumsauce]

Matt Cutts has access to the knobs :)

[Robert Charlton]

Matt Cutts doesn't appear to worry about that...

I suspects that Matt's site is in part a test bed to see how Google reacts to a setup that's typical of what many webmasters would do.

He hasn't set one default canonical url, for example. The site appears under either the "www" or non-"www" url.

I wouldn't necessarily emulate all he does technically.

[adessa]

Are you looking for commercial or free?

[trinorthlighting]

Either free or commercial, it just has to meet all the requirements listed on the opening of the thread.

I am very suprised that all the blogging software has as many issues like this. We all know that w3c compliance helps in crawling and we all know that duplicate urls can lead to many issues as well.

[digitalghost]

I've tried quite a few of them, no way I'd go with Blogger over Wordpress over a simple little tweak. Takes about 20 seconds to eliminate the "duplicate URL" issue, which is actually a misnomer, what you want to do is eliminate different URLs that point to the same content and different URLs that contain the same content.

Any replicated nav system has 'duplicate URLs'.