By jozzua on

I'm looking for a content management system for my site. Some folks recommended I try drupal. How different is this from mambo/joomla? I've experience with those two CMS.

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druvision commented

Drupal is the best SEO infrastructure there is. But be warned that some customization and SEO knowledge is required. For a start, enable friendly URLs to get full SE indexation and use the gsitemap module to make it even faster. Then create taxonomies based on SE-relevant keywords, and classify and create a strong, organic community to post information related to your subject according to the keywords. Enable comments to make posts float all the time, and use other group tools as available. Then digg it!

Real SEO is communities. This is the SEO that presists. SEO tricks are more and more easily discovered by SEs. Real community content and interaction (Web 2.0) is the king. And that's where drupal really shines.

Amnon
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jt6919 commented

you have to do a bit of pre-work (and install the right modules), but it can be very SEO friendly. There were so many things I had to do, and so many ways to set Drupal up for the best SEO, that I wrote a guide as to how I achieve it for my sites:

http://www.smorgasbord.net/how_to_optimize_drupal_web_site_for_google_ya...

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MikeyGYSE commented

Drupal is THE BEST CMS for SEO there is, Joomla can generate what it calls "friendly urls" which may be search engine readable, but they aren't friendly.

A friendly url is not com_content,1,3?com_profiler,2,3,45siuewe, or whatever.

A friendly url is /tags/information/coming_out/whototell_whentotell

Michael O'Toole

Gay Youth :: South East - Founder & Operations Administration

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Harry Slaughter
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Drupal is well known for its search engine friendliness.

I've written an article on how I get consistent placement using drupal: http://devbee.com/drupal_seo

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FidelGonzales commented

I have used Joomla extensively for the last year and am now getting around to giving Drupal a test drive to determine for myself the benefits of each.

As per this discussion, out of the box, Joomla URLs are weak. As mentioned previosly, out of the box, expect to see this:

index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=35&Itemid=223&limit=103&limitstart=103

It improves slightly with the configuration of what is referred to as SEF URLs, but it's not much better. Expect to see this, which isn't too bad:

content/view/2308/56/

But within a good 30 minutes, depending upon configuration, you can easily have this:

section-name/category-name/content-name.html

These URLs make a big difference in most cases, but I have as do others have websites that have not used and do not use any form of SEF and have performed very well and at the top of search engine rankings. In my opinion, search engine performance depends more upon overall site configuration and content creation and placement than anything.