Top 5 SEO Friendly Content Management (CMS) Systems
October 8, 2008 by CMS Critic
(7 votes, average: 3.71 out of 5)
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One of the most important things that people consider when looking at content management systems (CMS) is their viability in the SEO market.
We’ve put together a list of what we feel are the most SEO friendly content management software platforms on the market today.
Elxis - with it’s built in SEO Pro capabilities, is incredibly search engine friendly and definitely deserves its place on this list. Not only that, but in comparison to Joomla and Mambo, it far surpasses them.
There is also a SEO Book for Elxis content management that is available here.
More about SEO Pro:
“Elxis 2008 CMS has a powerful mechanism that produces search-engine and human friendly URLs. SEO PRO is not a component or some sort of additional software, it is an integral part of the Elxis core. Plus, it demands no additional settings other than its activation!
The URLs are automatically produced from Elxis, based on your SEO titles, that you type during the creation of an article, the addition of a link, the addition of a category, e.t.c. SEO PRO is equipped with an automatic suggestion and validation mechanism for SEO titles, that uses AJAX technology.
The internal functions of this mechanism allow the romanization of any word, in any language, in order to make it appropriate to use in a URL. SEO PRO is created especially for Elxis CMS and is exceptionally quick, because the whole front-end part has been optimized for the fastest creation of SEF URLs.
Finally, the backward compatibility has been maintained in order to use the classic 2006.x. SEO or to install a new software from a third party developer.
An additional range of features optimizes the website for search engines. During the creation of articles, and in case the meta data are not filled in, then they are automatically filled in by Elxis. Elxis also produces automatic multilingual meta data in dynamic pages like blogs, user profiles, links, e.t.c.
These data derive from the requested content. Elxis HTML code emphasizes important words or phrases of the content, and relates it with suitable HTML elements. For example, it uses h1 tags for the titles of the articles, h3 for the headers of the modules, e.t.c. In the end, all the links contain title tags, the images contain alt text, the form fields contain labels, e.t.c.”
Drupal - With clean urls enabled and many SEO friendly plugins.. Drupal is very very easy content management platform to make search engine friendly.
There is also an awesome module called SEO Checklist for Drupal CMS that walks you through what to do to further improve your SEO. It can be found here: SEO Checklist
There is also a good screencast here: http://vision-media.ca/screencasts/drupal-seo-tutorial
Typo3 - Very search engine friendly with tons of options for metadata and search engine friendly urls.
There’s a wonderful 10 part Typo3 series on SEO here: http://www.dawsoninteractive.com/articles/article/typo3-seo-introduction/
CMSMadeSimple - by default this CMS is quite search engine friendly and does a solid job right off the bat.
MODx - With SEO Friendly Urls and you can adjust meta-content of your site on a per-page basis, MODx is a very solid choice.
I’m sure people will have other suggestions, but these are our personal favourites. What’s yours?
That’s a very useful article. You didn’t include Vivvo CMS in that list though…
No Wordpress?
I’ve used a great SEO friendly CMS from a company called ISL. It’s called OneWeb and it offers human readable URL’s, automatic construction, posting, & editing of robots.txt, auto updates to the sitemap (both the robots and human readable), auto 301 redirects, custom Meta editing, custom URL’s, and more.
It is proprietary, not open source but it works great.
http://www.isl.ca/en/home/onewebcms/default.aspx
As stated earlier, Vivvo CMS :) SEO and SEM is becomming more important for website developers and owners, as sites are becomming more “competitive”.
I don’t suppose there are systems which don’t utilize mod_rewrite for Apache, but pure coding?
y Joomla???
I’m using Elgg right now and I also have an install of xoops running on a beta site but I like the looks of Elxis so far. I’ll install soon to determine if it can be used to develop a gaming/ sudo-social networking site.
What about FarCry Core - http://www.farcrycore.org? 5.0 has been released and it improves with every version. 5.0.1 is coming out soon. Much better than Joomla/Mambo.
It’s interesting that WordPress isn’t on here. Although many still don’t consider WordPress a full-fledged CMS, I still think it has some of the best SEO capabilities around with the All-in-one SEO plugin and more.
I’d have to disagree on the wordpress topic. This site is run on it and while it is decent when it comes to SEO, it’s not as easy as it could be and the exclusion of meta keywords and description doesn’t lend itself well.
There was a great component for Joomla 1.0 series that did similar stuff to your Elxis component.
It was called JPromoter.
I sure hope it gets converted to Joomla 1.5 because it would crawl your site, index the pages and allow for very specific re writes on any URL and its description, Meta data etc.
Also, one downside with Joomla to keep an eye out for is duplicate content from the PDF links.
From what you have written I thnik Elxis looks like something I will have to investigate.