SEO Friendly CMS Applications
We only build and design websites for both ourselves and our clients that have a CMS (Content Management System) as the foundation for the website. It is also important for us that the CMS application we use support SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
We are not in the business of setting up websites and applications that require us to perform daily and weekly maintenance and upkeep. Our goal is to empower our clients with the ability to manage, maintain, and grow their content and articles on the site. We want our clients to be extremely happy with their website, and that because we have provided them with the ability to maintain, they will look to us to market and build new functionality.
CMS based websites are very beneficial in that they can greatly reduce the amount of effort and time to make updates, are designed for people who do not have much technical background, you can configure access/restrictions to the backend, can create consistency within the pages on your site, you can schedule pages to publish/un-publish in advance, and so forth...
Content Management Systems We Like
There are many CMS applications that claim they are SEO friendly, but through many years of testing products out and experimenting with each, we have come across two particular applications that we have found that both support SEO but are also flexible and thorough enough to support our initiatives and projects.
MODX
MODX is a fast and flexible, ajax and SEO Content Management System. MODX is an open source Content Management System and Application Framework. MODX is an ongoing project written by Raymond Irving and a core team of contributors at the MODx Project. MODX is distributed under the GPL license and is now run by a professional team of developers from all over the world.
MODX is perfect both for regular marketing websites and for many custom web applications. If you're looking for a robust, Ajax- and SEO-friendly CMS built on top of a modern OOP database framework - and you want it free of licensing fees or restrictions - MODX is probably right for you. Learn More >
Expression Engine
ExpressionEngine is a commercial product built on an Open Source foundation, giving you the best of both worlds. As a commercial product, ExpressionEngine is supported by a team of committed developers and technical support specialists. With its Open Source foundation, ExpressionEngine's codebase is 100% open, transparent, and extensible.
The core of ExpressionEngine is built on CodeIgniter, their Open Source PHP framework, used by hundreds of thousands of PHP developers worldwide. CodeIgniter has become the application framework of choice for many of the premiere PHP developers in the world. Learn More >
