The Best Content Management Systems for SEO Friendly Websites
Building a business website involves making several decisions, not least among them is choosing a content management system, or CMS, that works for your specific needs. Today, online marketing is one of the most important keys to the success of a business, and good search engine optimization, or SEO, is the key to online marketing. That’s why when, looking for a CMS, a website hoping to optimize should be careful to pick one that works well with SEO.
SEO Guidelines for CMSs
Here are some important points to take into account when selecting a content management system to make sure that it’s SEO compatible.
- Pick a CMS that lets you edit title and description tags, separately from article titles and descriptions
- Make sure the CMS makes it easy to edit heading tags on any page
- The CMS should let you easily move pages and sections of content around
- It should support RSS feeds and analytics
- It should have the tools needed to creating standard-compliant code
- It should allow you to easily create your own directory and filename structures
- And finally, it should give search engines easily accessible sitemaps
The following five CMSs are among the most SEO friendly you’ll find, and they have all if not most of the qualifications listed above. Here they are in no particular order.
Elxis
Elxis has a built-in SEO management program called SEO Pro, which does a fairly thorough job of helping you optimize your site for the purposes of search engine marketing.
Drupal
This is one of the most well known and used CMSs out there. It has clean URLs and a wide selection of SEO friendly plug-ins; plus it’s one of the most easy-to-use, SEO friendly CMSs. It also has a great module called SEO Checklist, which guides you through the process of improving your SEO on each page and makes it easy for everyone in your company to keep track of the changes made.
Typo3
Typo3 is a very search engine friendly CMS that contains a lot of options for organizing and creating metadata, tags and search engine friendly URLs.
CMS Made Simple
So long as you can modify htaccess files, this simple CMSs can generate very good search engine friendly URLs. Meta tags and page titles are built automatically and can later be modified and updated for individual pages.
MODx
MODx is one of the best choices for SEO friendly CMS. It lets you easily create SEO friendly URLs and it gives you the ability to adjust meta content on a per-page basis.
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