Does any one know where to go for a tutorial on seo for a content management system.


I am sure that I saw one on a php site maybe!
The trick is to get your long urls with ?#& and other stuff hidden from the bots.

Does this ring any bells?

if not can I repost this in the php section?

SEO (search engine optimisation) is unrelated to Content Management Systems or whatever else you use to produce your web pages.

At the very basic level, it's just what you do to the HTML of a web page that matters to a reader or in the case of a SEO, what matters to a search engine bot.

In other words, modify your script to ensure that the web page titles are accurate to what the page is all about. This applies to the description and keywords meta tags as well, but to a lesser extend. Then there are other details to think about - we're not going there right now.

Making your internal links as 'static' as possible makes it even more user-friendly both to your readers and search engine bots. So if for example, your CMS script outputs a single list of link like this:

you may consider modifying that to something like:

The hardest thing to do then is to make your web server understand that whenever it receives a request for example: http://www.example.com/v/c-2/a-234.html what it really needs to do is to translate that to http://www.example.com/view.php?cat=2&aid=234
and to do this, most people use apache's mod rewrite, although it's not the only solution out there.

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Thanks for the info. I am sure I willl try and build my own content management system someday but for now I am looking at MAMBO.
A friend told me about .www.cmsmatrix.org. It can compare up to 10 cms at the same time.
I was able to find out that mambo has friendly urls built in. Just click a button and hey presto.
I have not tested it yet but I will let you know if it works.

JK

Its pretty easy to create SE friendly URLs in Mambo...but I found the application itself to be a little too much for my needs.

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I got mambo working on my pc, it does everything it is supposed to do but there is no module for a forum. Templates are toO fussy.

Can you recommend a CMS.
I want to have different templates in seperate ares of a website. Mambo not suitable.
Also pages for authors of short stories to submit content, using simple form.
Maybe a forum for members only.

Anyone got any suggestions for CMS for me to test or maybe how to integrate a bulletin board into an existing CMS to share USERNAMES and PASSWORDS.