Why Joomla, WordPress and Drupal all Fail at Search Engine Optimization

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Yes, that is right, they all fail at Search Engine Optimization... I have been reading several new posts about how well WordPress is doing SEO compared to Joomla! and how good Drupal is in SEO compared to WordPress and....well, you get the general idea. it seems that every time people are defending their choice to use a certian Content management system. Which is a good thing, you can show people the reasons why you love the system(s) that you use. We all do, we all like the system of … [Read more...]

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Weblog engines reviewed by Smashing magazine

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Yet another great post from Smashing Magazine, this time Glen Stansberry wrote post reviewing of 10 Weblog Engines among them WordPress, Drupal and Joomla! Af course they included MovableType and ExpressionEngine which I also tried but didn't like that much. Looking and writing about the following aspects of each engine: Programming language. What features you’ll need. The size of the software’s community. The age of the software. If you … [Read more...]

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Water & Stone Reporting on Open Source CMS Market 2008

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Today I read a Report from Water & Stone, a big name in the Mambo community as one of there Templates is a great looking one with a lot of installations. The report (which you can download here) brings numbers and conclusions on Market shares of Open Source CMS like Joomla!, Drupal, WordPress and many others like e107,Typo3, Modx, Elgg en more... In the report there are clearly three Big names in Open Source CMS, not that we did not know who the leaders are, but Rik Shreves does a great … [Read more...]

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Search Engine Friendly? A WordPress, Joomla and Drupal Comparison.

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First off, search engine friendly is not the same as search engine optimized! This is something Joost de Valk already wrote about in his post Search Engine Friendly vs Search Engine Optimized Search engine optimization does go a lot further then making a search engine friendly website, and building a Content Management system for websites that is search engine optimized..., that is just not possible... What is possible is to look at the search engine friendliness of three popular Open … [Read more...]

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Drupal before Joomla!

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In my last post I told you about the Joomla! winning the Best PHP Open Source CMS, and that they were in the running for overall winner of the Packt Publishing contest. They came in second after last years victory. This year the overall winner is Drupal, which is one of the four Open Source Content management systems I use, so I am pleased with this one as well! Drupal is more a kind off framework with wicht you can accomplish more special tasks that with Joomla!, although the new 1.5 … [Read more...]

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