CMS and Search Engine Ranking

[world4health]

Does anyone know how using a CMS impacts on the ranking google generates. Currently the CMS that we are contemplating using generates all its site content from one PHP reference file. This makes for a rather interesting and fairly incoherent URL when referencing sub pages within the site. The point was being made that a much more legible URL makes a positive impact on google ranking. If this is the case is there any advised method of getting around this such as directory redirects using .htaccess files.

[John Scott]

http://mamboserver.com/ is search engine friendly.

http://www.xaraya.com/ is another one I've seen doing well in Google.

[awall19]

a better url & filepath may also encourage more clickthroughs too

[world4health]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

http://mamboserver.com/ is search engine friendly.

http://www.xaraya.com/ is another one I've seen doing well in Google.

We've looked at mambo, but we would have to do much more to get to where we are with this other CMS.

Question is: What if we used .htaccess to redirect the generated addresses of this CMS to absolute addresses eg www.anything.com/anyfile/ to www.anything.com/anyfile.php

Would this be an issue with google :

[awall19]

using htaccess should be fine.

[world4health]

Originally Posted by awall19

using htaccess should be fine.

That's good news awall19

Hey John we've realized that only the first page at mambo has been ranked, do you know why?

[samer]

Question is: What if we used .htaccess to redirect the generated addresses of this CMS to absolute addresses eg www.anything.com/anyfile/ to www.anything.com/anyfile.php

it's called re-writing URLs, for more info on this, read about mod_rewrite

www.google.com/search?q=Mod_Rewrite

good luck

[FGTH]

If you have many page 100+ that you'd consider redirecting, I would not use .htaccess since this would diminish user experience by slowing down your site.

For every request, you're essentially be adding 100+ conditional statements.

Go with the httpd.conf file using mod_rewrite.

[world4health]

Originally Posted by FGTH

If you have many page 100+ that you'd consider redirecting, I would not use .htaccess since this would diminish user experience by slowing down your site.

For every request, you're essentially be adding 100+ conditional statements.

Go with the httpd.conf file using mod_rewrite.

Our site has over 800 pages

[toolkit]

You definitely want to limit the number of conditional statements in your .htaccess file. Could you tell us what CMS you're comtemplating using? Most of my work involves writing custom CMSs so I should be able to tell you if what you're wanting to use is sh*t or not

[world4health]

Originally Posted by toolkit

You definitely want to limit the number of conditional statements in your .htaccess file. Could you tell us what CMS you're comtemplating using? Most of my work involves writing custom CMSs so I should be able to tell you if what you're wanting to use is sh*t or not

We're thinking of using mambo

[toolkit]

Mambo is very simple to use and great for content sites. It also has some built in functions for search-engine friendliness. There are also some plugins available from this site that add additional sef features.

[nandini]

Originally Posted by FGTH

If you have many page 100+ that you'd consider redirecting, I would not use .htaccess since this would diminish user experience by slowing down your site.

For every request, you're essentially be adding 100+ conditional statements.

Go with the httpd.conf file using mod_rewrite.

.htaccess definately has a adverse effects on the site speed.
Using too much of RewriteCond will just take up a lot of speed.
I try to code a maximum of 3-5 lines in .htaccess and extracting the variables in URL by any of server variables, and having the desired effect.

Many ISPs don`t give you access to modify httpd.conf, hence you need to code your .htaccess intelligently.

-- Just my opinion --

[shoaeeb]

Use sef urls in your cms site.

[heatman07]

has anyone of you guys used ModX? What do you think?

[keanwoo]

"Mambo" and "Joomla" is a S.E.O. structure.


and "Wordpress" is indexed by search engine bot like it so much.


There help me to create website is very easy and it's very effective.