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What do you want in a CMS to help your SEM & SEO?

         

SnowDevil

1:32 am on Sep 22, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Hey people,

I have a CMS I've spent a *long* time working on (nearly two years) and it's really starting to take shape at this point. Because my main reason for building this is to support development of profitable websites, particularly with regard to heavy content, flexible advertising space, taking into account everything relevant to SEO marketers and so forth, I'd like to know what you guys have been missing.

The templating system is at least (if not more) flexible than any other CMS out there. So with regards to how the HTML is structured, don't worry about suggestions relating to general HTML on pages. These come out however you write the HTML. For those without much HTML knowledge, the CMS will come with a few standard HTML layouts to get people off to a quicker start.

Now I do have completely friendly URLs in, and there is a full versioning system so you have the entire history of edits to the page if you muck something up or want to undelete a page, etc.

So what would you want apart from that basic stuff?
301/302 redirects from deleted pages? from pages where you've changed the URL? (I'm not very knowledgeable on 301/302 yet because it hasn't been an issue for me so far)

What about AdSense stuff? Advertising stuff? What do you want in visitor logging/tracking?

Anything on your SEO/SEM wish list for a CMS would be appreciated.

reprint

2:53 pm on Sep 22, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I like the code to be valid. It may not be essential for SEO but it stops me worrying about anything tripping up or misrepresenting my content to the SEs.
For print links or PDF links of content, there should be a default no follow no index to prevent duplicate content.
Easy additions of meta tags .. in fact perhaps pages shouldn't be allowed to be published without these filled out.
I like easy H1, H2 etc ordering
Source ordered content
high content to code ratio.

these are the ones that most come to mind