Choosing SEO friendly CMS

Generally there are a huge number of CMS’s available over the internet to get your websites up and running, Ofcourse, Most of them claiming to be SEO friendly, but there are some factors to choose the suitable CMS for your business based on what features you are looking for and SEO friendly as well.. Even though we have lot of CMS's available, there are very few popular options for a SEO friendly CMS.





DRUPAL :-

Drupal is one of the popular open source CMS's that powers many Government websites like http://www.whitehouse.gov/ and http://data.gov.uk . It offers all the basic features of a search engine friendly website. but it also has many SEO friendly contributed modules which can be added according to your needs. Here’s a list of SEO related Drupal modules that you can use to make your Drupal website SEO friendly. Obviously you will need a Drupal developer to assist you configuring those modules as Drupal is not that easy while comparing with some other CMS's.

Out of the box, Drupal includes the ability to give pages on your site aliases, so instead of something ugly like "yoursite.com/node/23", you can pick something nice like "yoursite.com/article/music". The latter is easier for people to read, and search engines prefer it as well. With the addition of the Pathauto module, your site will automatically generate URLs that match the content you create. SEO friendly URLs will be created for you without any extra effort on your part.


JOOMLA :-

Joomla is an another open source platform. It helps us to develop small to large scale websites and provides the user friendly admin interface.. The construction of web pages allows integration of a site map that stores all hyperlinks. This feature helps in indexing of the web portal by the crawlers and spiders and so is considered SEO-friendly for any website. If you are using Joomla, it will help in installing and downloading of several sitemaps, thereby implying increased chance for your site to climb up the top slot of the search pages pertaining to your business platform.

Joomla packs has so many SEO-friendly features. It has the built-in interface for adding title and other meta data for every single article.. Also Visible URLs on Joomla make a website friendly with the search engines. In addition, these URLs are also good for customized Meta tags and Titles. Generally Duplicate title and Meta tags are punished by the search engines. To overcome this problem and still be attuned to the latest search engine dictates, Joomla has punched in some options for customization. Different menus available on Joomla platform have made choice simpler and straightforward.


WORDPRESS :-

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL which runs on a web hosting service. First and best thing about wordpress in terms of search engine optimization is the flexibility it provides with respect to url structure. You can alter the structure of permalinks to your liking and add keywords you want to focus on for each and every post you make. You should know that search engines even look in to the url when ranking webpages in its index.

Wordpress always has clean codes, although some versions of wordpress might have some issues but commonly Developers of wordpress really know what they are doing and they are pretty good at it. If codes are clean, it also uses less server resources that means your pages loads fast and overall site speed increases. This will not only enhance user experience it is also being loved by search bots to get results a lot easier.


As I mentioned in the beginning, there are lot of CMS's available over the internet and we can't cover them all in a single post but the above three CMS's are the best ones among them and spreading well over the internet. As you can see all of them has some unique features that can produce a SEO friendly websites. so its all up to you to choose the best one among them based on your criteria.. Hope this post can be useful, thanks :)