Content Management System not search engine friendly

[cssoh]

This is an extract of an article that I have just read:

"From a development standpoint,there are lots of old nasty content management systems. Now they are really having a hard time getting their sites indexed by the search engines."

Now this worries me a bit as I am just about to have a website built using a CMS. I am not a techie so have no way of telling if this CMS is good or not.

Can anyone please enlighten me if What is being said about old CMSs not getting indexed by search engines, is true.

Cheers

[TWD-Tony]

Mainly this is true

BUT...

Most modern CMS's take SEO into consideration, take Mambo / Joomla for instance (probably the most popular free cm)
The reason why CMS's are not SE friendly is that they contain dynamic URL's or addresses in the address bar that contain lots if silly characters - if you look at the address bar whilst replying to this thread you will se lots of ?'s and &'s and ='s These are what SE spiders struggle to read / follow.
A Modern CMS will use a technology called mod_rewrite to change these strange URL's in the more acceptable websiteroot/folder/page layout and get around the SEO problem

[cssoh]

Thanks Tony for the reply. Does shed light on what it's all about. The CMS I am looking at is based on open-source; you can add modules to it as you go along. So I think it's fairly safe to say that it's a modern CMS. At the very least I now have a question for them, ie do they use mod_write.

Question: if search engines spiders get confused about these silly characters, surely they are also confused about a name like www.londonmilkbar.com, as opposed to www.london-milk-bar.com? So my thinking is if you want to do the right thing for SE ranking, the latter might be a better option. BUT...it's a more difficult name to remember from a marketing perspective, so is this the case of either this or that depending on what you want to achieve?

[dmscs]

Cssoh

If you can get a uk based .co.uk domain name. It really does make a difference www.londonmilkbar.co.uk

If you want a great CMS which is modualar then Drupal will do. It has tons of features that will keep you active all day. I only know becuase I have just tested it for a client and am considering using it on one of my website builds. take a look www.duennamediaservices.co.uk/drupal

David

[cssoh]

David

Oops sorry I didn't make myself clear. I was only using london milk bar as an example; it's not anything that has to do with my new website.

I followed the link you provided, but couldn't see any CMS there. May be I need to sign in as a member or something? Anyway I am on the Mac, so can only work on browser-based CMS. I am considering using the CMS from these guys, based here in Melbourne: http://www.mcwebs.com.au/

Can the experts out there please tell me if their CMS sounds OK?

Thank you!

[TWD-Tony]

In reply to your question about "-"'s in domain names then no, search engines do not have a problem with these... As I type this reply, I can see in the address bar newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=10591 which is the kind of link that search engines find hard to follow.

I have never used the CMS that you asked about, I only ever use Joomla www.joomla.org - just take a look at all the skins and add-on modules available! I have yet to find something that the system could not do, simply by adding a module or component

[www.t6c.co.uk]

If you PM me a page created with your CMS I will tell you if/why its OK for SEO or not.

Also, just because links are staticly formatted does not make a page SE friendly, it just helps with the first hurdle, getting indexed.

[cssoh]

Hi t6c...I have just looked at your website and I may need to speak to you a bit later about SEO when this website is a bit closer to completion. I will email you privately with details to log onto this 'CMS' I am thinking of using, and see what you think of it.
Thanks,
Chaun