Need a CMS for a church - sermons, galleries, front-end/simple editing

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm creating a site for a church (news, events, sermons(audio & video), group pages, etc.) For many clients, I use Drupal, Joomla, or Wordpress - however, none of these will work in this scenario. I need the church administrators to be able to create layouts easily, etc, and not be bogged down in the number of features. Often for these types of clients, I use Joomla, but editing content in multiple areas can be confusing for clients (is it content, a component, or a module, etc.). Drupal is great for form based content submission, but the rest would be overkill for this client. I was leaning towards concrete5 for it's simplicity of use for the end-user, but many of the concrete5 add-ons feel like the alpha/betas of other CMS's extensions/add-ons. I was also tempted by Fork CMS, but it's fairly new and doesn't offer a lot in the way of customization abilities. So what would be a good CMS that allows either front end editing, or the backend is intuitive - offers good solid extensions/add-ons, and is mature and sees regular updates.


Light CMS that does not require a database

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for a light CMS that I can use for creating a simple personal website for a friend. The server that he will host his website only supports PHP and no databases. So, I need a CMS that may not be very scalable but the important thing is that it must be easy to use with a simple user interface that a layman can use to add content (and as I said no databases).


Choosing a CMS for Non-Technical Users

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? I am currently looking for a free CMS geared towards non-technical users. I'm hoping to find something where they can easily create tables, move blocks around, with a WYSIWYG editor, etc. Does such a thing exist? Myself, I can put up with any CMS I come across. I can use HTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL/etc., so I can install whatever I need to and add edits wherever I need to for the web design/template/theme. I know the popular ones: WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla. They're apparently not simple enough for what I need.


We require a blog plugin to our asp.net website?

We require a blog plugin to our existing ASP.net website. I've used Wordpress before, however as our site is ASP / IIS Wordpress is out (I understand there may be workarounds but would prefer something that works out of the box). We need blog functionality to add in to our existing website template (header, columns etc) so only require a subset of full blog software functionality, as most blog software out there is aimed at creating a whole blog website, whereas we only want it to be a page on our website, in line with the current formatting of the website. What software would you suggest I use?


Blogging platform that supports group , private , public blogs and advanced tagging

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? After some bad questions here, i finally have my main question in mind :) I need to design a platform that provides: -Personal blogging (blogs that are view able only by them) -Group blogging (blogs that only people part of a small group (3-4 people) can see the posts and comment) -Public blogs Also about the content itself, i would need -Advanced tagging (common tags amongst all blogs AND tags specific to a blog in addition to the common) -Search capability -Rich text content with photos media e.tc. on the blog entry -A database that i could access and create custom applications (most read-only) on the data. Also an API would be helpfull. an example of a custom application would be to select your blog posts and create an offline file (.zip html e.t.c) and have it stored locally on your machine. After some research: -Forum platforms are NOT suitable for this as i would have to create hundreds of sub forums with selective security for each of them. It would make administration almost if not impossible. -Joomla and joomla-alike cms also give me bad signs as i couldn't have specialized tags per category of articles and i suspect heavy coding in order to do it. Also i don't know if it could satisfy my other above-mentioned needs. -I have found a combo that may work. Invision Board and IP.Blog. IP.blog supports almost all of the features that i want ,but it seems maybe too good to be true (any input of someone that already uses it would be helpful). Many solutions follow the logic that a blog is public and allow for some level of security on them, which is not suitable for what i want.


Turnkey software for a community website

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for some software to run a small community website. Ideally, what I want is:   * A wiki   * Static pages of some kind, perhaps cms controlled.   * Some sort of blogging or news functionality I've been playing with django, but it's difficult to get the results you want when on cheap shared hosting (limited control of httpd.conf) Perhaps some sort of wiki package would provide most of this?


What is a good solution for web based course management portal?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking to host a web based course portal in my college. The portal would be used for the following tasks:   * Instructors will upload lecture notes, assignments, embed videos(youtube etc.)   * Students will consume the content, and in addition upload their assignment submissions.   * Instructors and TAs will monitor students progress and give feedback.   * Students, instructors and TA's will use a forum on the portal for discussions. Could you please recommend a good web based solution(preferably free) which would satisfy the aforementioned requirements to the most.


Which is the blog engine for my needs?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am hosting two websites, which basically contain two filtered views to one blog-like data base. Both sites have their own domains and the files are hosted on the same machine (currently in two directory, but could be changed to one directory easily). Now, as a matter of fact, I am sick of maintaining my own php code just for such a blog, so I thought, there must be a blog engine out there which I can use instead. So I googled a bit and I simply don't know with which engine to start trying out. Can you help me an tell me which engine is able to fullfil my requirements. I don't need a setup/configuration tutorial so something. I will figure that out myself as soon as I know which software to look at. My Requirements:   * I want to continue to host the sites by myself.   * I want to use different design templates on both blogs.   * I want to feed both blogs from one data base and filter the entries, e.g. through tags, so I can have entries showing on only one site or on both sites.   * I want to write entries in two languages, so the user can see the whole site in the language he/she selects. However, I want these still to be one blog entries, i.e. if a user comments on an entry I want that comment to show in all versions (both languages and both sites if the entrie is visible on both sites).   * I want RSS-Feeds (or similar) of the pages (filtered, similar to the webpages themself). Does anyone know a simple/small CMS which can do that for me without being too huge?


Intranet Content Management System

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking to find a free CMS that would be suitable for an intranet environment with around 50 users. What suggestions do you guys have? All that is required really is a few pages listing links to different documents on the network and possibly an event calender.


Any CMS or Framework that support MongoDB as the only database?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'd like to exercise mongodb in a real world context so I'm wondering what are CMS', or better, Frameworks that support MongoDB as the main database out of the box?


Userfriendly CMS for a large organisation

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for a CMS for a large organization. There are many sites managed by many webmasters. The size of the sites range from pretty small to pretty large (60,000+ pages). The choice of technology does not matter, as long as the product meets the following requirements:   * Allows complex workflows to accomodate the multiple needs of a lot of clients. (Many levels of revision, translation, approval, etc.)   * Very easy for the users (Very easy for developpers too is great but could live without)   * Has content history (It is possible to view what the content on a page was at a specific date)   * Must be multilingual (At least French and English)   * Has a flexible security model   * Has good performance   * The layout of the pages must be highly configurable (not sure if I should write as all CMS probably meet this criteria)   * It must be possible to publish content that respects the WCAG 2.0 AA standard Can you point me in the direction of a CMS that meets all those criterias ?


What's the best CMS for my project?

I'm new to content management systems and I have very little experience in web development. Which CMS do you recommend for the following tasks?   * Users can login and create list items   * Users can upload files to list items   * Users can comment and rate uploads (thumbs up down)   * Users are able to change the font size of the page via mouse click   * Users are able to export sites to pdf via mouse click   * Breadcrumbs   * Small and easy to use forum   * Users can change the language of the site So far I experimented with Wordpress, but I think it's not the optimal choice! I've to use MySql as database.


What is the best open source e-commerce application for services?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Normally e-commerce applications are designed for selling products. But I want to setup a website with an open source e-commerce application to sell services, instead products. Which is the most suitable open source e-commerce application to sell services instead of products?


Which CMS supports private key authenticated sftp uploads?

I use EC2 to host a website, & would like to implement a CMS which can logon with a private key file rather than a username/password. In order to keep high security on the server so no one can brute force their way in. When I Google Drupal & Joomla private key authentication, I get nothing. Is anyone aware of a web dev app that supports this? Preferably open source. Thanks.


Choosing open source vs. proprietary CMS

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I've been tasked with redesigning a website for a small academic library. While only in charge of the site for 6 months, we've been maintaining static html pages edited in Dreamweaver for years. Last count of our total pages is around 400. Our university is going with an enterprise level solution called Sitefinity, although we maintain our own domain and are responsible to maintain our own presense. Some background-my library has a couple Microsoft IIS servers on which this static html site has been running. I'm advocating for the implementation of a CMS while doing this redesign. The problem is I'm basically the lone webmaster so I have no one to agree or disagree with my choice. There are also only 1-2 content editors right know for the site but a CMS could change that factor. I would like to use the functionality of having servers that run .NET and MS SQL but am more experience setting up and maintaining open source software like Wordpress or Drupal on web hosts. My main concern is choosing a CMS that will be easy to update / maintain / deal with upgrades (i.e., support) in case I'm not there in the future. So I'm wondering how to factor in the open source CMS vs. a relatively inexpensive commercial CMS decision and whether choosing PHP/MySQL vs. ASP.net framework for development environment will play into my decision. Thanks for any input that can be offered based on the details I've given. Thanks, Jason


What is the best CMS for .net?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I need advice on the best CMS for an online shopping website in ASP.NET 4.0. Any advice?


Looking for a CMS including Wiki, possibility to comment on individual paragraphs of the wiki and making these comments visible on the same page

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for a specific CMS including Wiki, possibility to comment on individual paragraphs of the wiki and making these comments visible on the same page. The CMS should have a user system that allows to rate users on the quality of their comments. Ideally, the System should allow for different user roles/permissions based on their experience. I looked at the site rapgenius.com and would like to use it for a similar project in which people can contribute texts, work on developing these texts and comment on text passages. Sorry, I am not a software engineer or webmaster but I thought this might be a good forum for my query.


ASP.NET CMS for link or content sharing with vote system

I'm Looking for an asp.net cms which gets liks from users and shares them based on tag and stuffs. and I want users to be able to rate and vote each shared content or link. I know what I'm looking for is a special web application but I'm going to build it and I dont' want to start from zero. Do you know an open source asp.net cms for such thing?


PHP Image gallery that integrates well into custom CMS

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I've been trying to find an image gallery that plays nice with our custom CMS. I've evaluated a number of them, but none of them seems to have the feature list that I would like:   * Run on LAMP environment   * Free software or low license costs (the website belongs to a non-profit organisation)   * Multi-user support   * Multiple albums. We're posting concert pictures, and would like an album per event.   * Pluggable authentication system. I want to reuse the accounts we have for our CMS. Permissions can be done inside the gallery itself, but I want to have a single sign on solution in a maintainable manner, by writing my own plugin/add-on for the software.   * Upload support (multiple images at the same time) And preferrably also:   * Can be integrated into a PHP page layout without IFRAMEs   * Automatic resizing of uploaded images to a maximum size   * Ability for visitors to place comments This combination is proving hard to find, especially the authentication requirement. I don't want to mess around all over the place in the source code to make it use the existing authentication. A plugin would be ideal, but alternatively a well thought out software design that allows for maintainable surgical changes would be acceptable. Any suggestions on which software I should take a closer look into?


Which CMS can I use for my project?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I have to build a new website for my client.. and he needs this stuff: A user generated content website.. where users can upload their own videos.. (i will use a video hosting platform with api like fliqz.com) I must manage a big user system.. where users can create their own "sub- users"... the site must manage paid subscriptions and payments through paypal.. and other payment gateways... So the question is.. i have to use a pre-built CMS and extend it.. or just a good framework? I've been thinking about joomla, drupal and expressionengine... It's not neccesary to use a open source cms... I've looking at drupal.. but is not as easy to understand and extend... Can anyone help me to make a good decision?


How to find a good photo gallery for my website?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? For my website I'm searching for a really simple gallery module that looks like the one use by Dropbox. But I'd like to have 2 additional features: allow visitors to make comments and display the number of hits of a photo. I was googling a lot for such gallerys, but could find anyone that really matched my requirements. Could someone reocommend a simple good-looking gallery that fullfills these requirements.


Updating Old Site To New. Which Content Management System Lets Me Retain My Old URL?

My old site is done in HTML with .html as file extension. To allow all those users who visit sites by typing a specific page url, and URL structure being good, I do not retain every single old url as possible including index.html as the main entry page even the content management system might start with index.php or anything like that. Could you tell me which content management system lets me pick my own url for each page or entry ? Example : given url 1 by Content Management System as travel/whereonearth.php my old url : travel/whereonearthe.html given url 2 : travel/mars.php my old url 2 : travel/mar.html i will type all old url for each entry page, once the site up, i will delete the old .html pages. This is for users and not for seo or anything like. I don't like .htaccess or anything like that so please list the CMS that allows me to do this.


fusion news or cutenews

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking at using cutenews or fusionnews, neither have the specific option i want which is when a new article is posted to email all my subscribers the last article. I would like to know which one is most customizable to do this or of another application that can do this? i didnt want to use wordpress because i want to custime the layout and page, but if thats the only option then i may stick to wordpress.


Lightweight CMS for simple website

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for a very lightweight CMS that allows me to design my pages in the exact way I want. All those I found give you standard templates to work with that are quite limiting. For example, I should be able to have generate a page with one full-screen image with a dynamic text area in its middle, or a toll image on the side with a few text areas scattered around. nothing too fancy... I just need freedom to place the objects wherever I want.


News Portal CMS

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? I am looking for a specific news portal CMS. I know all the major "general" CMS (like WordPress, Drupal or Joomla) and even the less known ones (like TYPO3, Expression Engine, Text Pattern or Concrete5). I'm already working with a Drupal distribution called OpenPublish and another WordPress installation to determine which would be better, but these are more of a Plan B. I would like to work directly with a CMS that was build exactly for this kind of tasks specific to a news / media portal. It doesn't matter if the CMS is commercial (however, I don't want to pay a monthly fee) or free, but I need to be able to use it on my own server / hosting and I need to be able to access it's source code (not to modify it, but to integrate it with future plugins / modules). If you know any CMS that qualifies for this job, please let me know. In the last few days I was all over Google but I couldn't anything worth mentioning.


A Java based modifyable web shop platform?

I have a project which requires a web shop. It should be a Java based web shop, since I know Java well. The functional requirements are:   * modifiable layout for main/goods pages   * modifiable processes like checking out etc. Is there a solution, which would meet my requirenments, which I should prefer? (e.g. something as popular as Magento)


Which CMS would Google recommend?

Which CMS would Google recommend for web design. I tested various CMS systems with PageSpeed and I did not found a CMS that performed close to 100/100


Simple blogging software (WP replacement)

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm sorry if this is not the right place to ask this question, but I think it's certainly better than at stackoverflow.com. I'm planning to redesign my website and looking for a WordPress replacement for my blog. My requirements are:   * simple (I won't do a large, complicated website) and lucid   * well coded (OOP), extensions, templates, active development (not 3 years old)   * nice but temperate text editor (+images, links), tags and categories, page break   * easy integration with Flickr, Picasa and social networks   * technology: PHP and MySQL, not cloud service (like Posterous or Tumblr) Could you recommend me some blogging software which would meet these criteria?


Picture Gallery & Message Forum

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Any suggestions for both an Open Source Picture Gallery and also for a relatively simple Message Forum (only low number of users), PHP/Python/Ruby/MySQL or anything else which is available. What I am primarily looking for are applications which can easily be incorporated into our existing website (same header, menu, floatin footer, quick linkd panel etc.) rather than as a full separate webpage. Thanks,


Alternative of Wordpress for site with review

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? can anyone help with alternative of Wordpress for site with review. Need more seriously CMS. Thanks.


Looking for a specific CMS

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for an application (web application, like WordPress) that you put your code into (CSS, HTML, etc.) and do something like "define variables" in the custom code that your clients can come back later and change without having to see any code. Is there anything like this out there? Even close?


Private forum /guestbook to coordinate rides for PHP password protected wedding website

I created a simple private PHP website for my wedding guests. The website is a single PHP page that prompts the user for a password that was snail-mailed to them with our invitations. If the correct password is entered, the PHP page serves up the HTML content which is otherwise inaccessible to the web. It works great! Now, though, I would like to add a forum, guestbook or some other method for guests to post their travel plans or requests rides from the airport and such. Any solution ideally would be:   * **Private** so that people feel comfortable posting cell phones or travel information   * **Simple** for less tech savy guests to use (e.g. no captchas, no email confirmations, no registration)   * **Easy for me to setup** I would like to avoid setting up MySQL on the server if possible. Things I looked into but gave up on:   * **Using a Google Docs spreadsheet** is too difficult because it would require me to solicit email addresses from every guest and then manually invite them to the doc. Any solution should be accessible via a link from my password protected wedding website.   * **NoNonesense Forum** This php forum looked promising but it would be very hard to make private from the broader web.   * **phpBB** and other more powerful fourms. These are too complicated, and not obviously private either.   * **Rideshare.us** This service is close, but its a little complicated and kludgy and it really takes people away to a complicated website. I'm wondering if I can do better, especially for less savvy users.


Whether to use Joomla or NOT for a site with following specifications?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I want **Joomla developers** perspective for: " **Whether its advisable or not to use Joomla** " if I wish to develop a site with following features:      1. Mainly focused in e-learning. (quite similar to http://grockit.com)      2. Registered **students** can:   watch/download videos/slides present on the site,   -give quiz (either solo or multi-player) on various predefined topics on the portal,   -when chosen multi-player, they can chat with the other currently on the same quiz,   -get a complete explanation of all questions after attempting the quiz,   -see his/her profile/status on the portal.      3. **Teachers** can:   can upload questions/slides/videos on the site(through a UI),   review questions uploaded by some other teacher,   can join a chat-room(quiz) and help students solve the quiz.      4. **Admin** (not necessarily a website developer) can:   -approve new teachers requests.   -manage contents of the website(through a UI).      The key points are:   The site won't ultimately be handled by the developers. The future admin may not know any programming at all!   Is the compatibility issue on various versions of Joomla a big problem?   Is it really easy for person with no programming skills to handle the site afterwards?   Is Joomla efficient enough and easy to learn for developers?   Are there sufficient number of Joomla extensions/plugins available for developing such a portal. And whether its easy to edit/modify those plugins? What we are capable of developing:   1. All the basic features including personal/group chat,video streaming,and the required coding for development of the UI for students and teachers.   2. Also we presently do not have any time constraints for the development of this portal.


Which wikis have MarkDown support?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? There exist a MarkDown extension for MediaWiki, but it is very buggy. Does anyone know of wikis that support MarkDown?


Recommend an open source CMS for single page web site

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? Hi I want to create a single page web site like http://kiskolabs.com/ or http://www.carat.se to display my portfolio. I want to add new products after launching the site without having to edit the entire site. I've looked at opencart (too much for single page site), Magneto (more for ecommerce), Wordpress (couldn't find open source / free templates which i can start from). Can you suggest a CMS which will support the creation of a single page site and allow insertion of new products without having to edit the entire page? I would prefer a CMS which also has open source / free templates which I can tweak for my use. I can do php and mysql, xml. If it is an easier option I can do PSD to site (but don't know much about this at all).


Non-dynamic CMS

Some of the web sites I visit every day (news, sports, etc..), although the content changes very often (several times per day), the URLs always have .html extension, what makes me thing that the content has been generated once, and then published as a static page, rather than generated in every call, or even cached in memory. For example, the fictitious site "mysports.com" have a "futbol.html" page, and then yesterday Messi gets injured and they have another thing to put in that page, then I presume they post the new item in their CMS system, and automatically a publishing action is triggered aftewards that recreates "futbol.html" in a CDN with the new item and probably discard the oldest one. Then the ETag changes and clients will get the new page if they try to access it. (the site is fictitious but this is what I believe happened yesterday in the sports site I read) This would fit in the CQRS approach, and I presume they have a huge performance. I know lots of CMS (WP, Drupal, BlogEngine.net, DNN, etc...), but I have never seen any able of doing this, or at least, I was not aware this feautre. How are called those distributed CMS? Which are the most well known? Cheers.


File Management CMS?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for some kind of a CMS -- or similar software -- for hosting non- web files (PDFs, Docs, xls, other proprietary formats, etc) for download, in a protected area. Specifically, I'm looking for a few features: 1) User login required 2) Logging of downloads (who downloads what, when, and how many times) 3) Fairly easy for administrators to upload new content Basically, users would login to the site, search for files (or see what they've downloaded in the past) and be able to download these files. Non- authenticated users can access none of the content. I've been thinking almost something like Dokuwiki would do the trick, though it lacks some features I need. Anybody know of anything that might fit the bill?


I want a multilanguage community membership CMS

I have built a website on my own which does the following:   * Strangers can apply and there is an interface such that the admin can accept or dismiss applications   * Each accepted member has his own profile where he can advitse himselft for the world wide web   * Members can be sorted in different categories, they can post advertises that will be available at different places on the side, and members can also buy certain things in the memberarea. I also create my own bills with fpdf. The reason why I want to switch to a CMS is the following:   * I want to have the website in many languages and I want for instance that some german members are able to change the german content of the website(not only there profile) and, therefore, I need a CMS. What would you advise me to do? Should I get some CMS (like Moode or Wordpress) and should I try to integrate my own code in this CMS or is there already some CMS that I can buy that has these features that I have listed above?


Looking for a CMS to publish online tutorials

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I want to create a site with tutorials on a specific topic. The tutorials would include code samples (so I need code highlighting), pictures, screencasts, and files to download. I would like to edit the pages easily, like on wikis, but also allow for comments like on blogs. I don't want wiki-like community editing, and I want to update a given tutorial page continuously, like on wiki, but not like in the blog. So which CMS should use?


Subscription Site CMS

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I was wondering if there are any subscription cms's out there which provide good functionality? I am looking to have a site which has different levels of users such as bronze,silver,gold. They will then be able to access specific content on the site. So articles and videos which are only accessible to certain members. Thanks


what is the best CMS for member login and job posting

Hi I have worked in wordpress and joomla but i am confusing to choose CMS.. which one is suitable for my requirements. Please read requirements and suggest me some CMS. Thanks in advance Directory which will list all of our members, with the option to sort by company name and category (eg manufacturer, supplier, developer, EPC, legal, accountant, education, government etc). Some members will fall into one or more of these categories. The directory should contain the following: Name of company Contact person Phone number Mobile number Address Category Membership Type Members should be able to add/edit their details so each member will need to be given a log-in and password. Admin should approve/manage the memberships. B) Job Posting Job posting section – members can post job opening


Does anyone know a good (video game) matchmaking CMS?

I'm looking for a good CMS that can work as a matchmaking CMS. Particularly for video game ladders and tournaments. Currently I work on Magneto and Pinnacle cart, and obviously I'm not trying to sell anything with my new site, but rather fill a niche that isn't being offered for this video game. That being said, does anyone know of a CMS that is pre-made for this type application? Or am I stuck modifying a Joomla, or dating site CMS?


Looking for a very lightweight PHP CMS for single page websites

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I need a very simple, secure CMS for single-page websites, with a single page backend, multilanguage, and preferably XML based, although that is not so important... I know there are other similar questions, but most of them are quite old. Please don't suggest Wordpress, it is definitely overkill for something like this.


.NET open source free CMS for millions of pages

I have done extensive research on the umbraco cms system. I have concluded that it is not suitable for web sites that will contain millions of web pages. When loggin into the back office the software must load all the pages which takes a long time and may even time out with millions of pages. is there a good cms built on the .NET platform that can handle this?


Blog/CMS software with editing style like Stack Exchange

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Are there any pieces of content creation software for making a blog that support an editing style like Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow? Or magic combinations of Wordpress plugins that offer the same? I have been updating a Wordpress blog lately and found the turnaround time for content creation and editing is much worse than for Stack Overflow posts. Part of this has to do with being original compositions rather than riffing off a question. But part of it is the software. I am looking for CMS/blog software that has an overall editing experience similar to Stack Overflow. The most important features I'm looking for:   * Inline editing   * (mostly) Real-time preview on the same page are all important features for speeding up data entry.   * Markdown support (with inline and block-level code support)   * Syntax hilighting The features I must maintain from my self-hosted Wordpress:   * Somewhat popular/supported software, with extensibility support   * Self hostable   * Will work with MySql Wordpress has plugins for all these, but they don't necessarily work together. For example I've found a few markdown-on-save plugins, but I doubt those have a chance of ever supporting inline editing or real time previews. Also the most popular syntax hilighting plugins don't support inline code blocks, and I doubt previews would work with other syntax hilighting methods. If I get a wiki/web page content creation system along with it, or somehow integrate this into GitHub (with all the features I requested) I'll accept those as side benefits.


simple cms for one page portfolio

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I want to use a simple cms for a one page photography portfolio. Here are some screenshots of the website: homepage and interior page Basically I have just to insert a thumbnail image for index and a specific page for each thumbnail that contains a title a description and some images. I don't want to use Wordpress, I think is too much. Could you recommend me some other cms for this type of portfolio?


Which FLOSS Python CMS for video sharing in a school?

I have an university project in which we develop a **video sharing system for schools**. Our central use cases are as follows:   * The system has to **manage videos** (and associated arbitrary metadata)   Where management includes uploading, transcoding, browsing (by metadata) and playing   * The system has to implement a **3-tier release process** :      * pupils may add videos to the system     * teachers may approve added videos, publishing them to other pupils     * administrators may revoke the approval of published videos The system needs to be developed in an agile fashion, oriented on Extreme Programming. As a result, the system needs to be implemented in a programming language, the developers are familiar with. The biggest overlap in competences of the developers is Python, so with additional functional requirements to be expected:   * The system needs to be implemented and extensible in **Python**. The system needs to be released to the general public, so   * The system and all components need to be licensed as **open source**. Which extensible open source Python CMS, supports video content and a role- based workflow?


Looking for a Social Bookmarking Content Management System

I want to make a website like Reddit, I already tried Pligg, Drigg, Elgg but the codes were too messy and impossible to customize. I really like WordPress and Joomla but they are not designed for that, I am wondering any suggestion or plugin to make them like Reddit or other cms?


Strengths of various open-source PHP Content Management Systems?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? What are the strengths / weaknesses of the various PHP-based open source CMSes?


Blogging platform for private/family blog?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am trying to setup a blog to be used for our family. This blog will not be open to the public and family members will require a username and password to enter the site. I had originally settled on Wordpress with some content restriction plugins but I am beginning to question that decision. So many Wordpress features are not relevant to a family blog. Items like Trackbacks are confusing to users and still show up even when trackbacks are disabled for a specific post. To that end I am looking for recommendations on open source blog engines that might fit the bill. I run IIS and Apache so either platform is fine. Thanks.


> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? i need a cms for book online reading and sharing like slideshare.net site


What free website system do you recommend to promote intepretation/translation services

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am a business interpreter based in Hangzhou,China. I am considering to mount an independent website to promote my service. I will register a domain name for it. My question is, what free website system do you recommend? The website system needs to include a content management system so I can add information.


Best wiki engine to use?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking to set up a wiki as a simple CMS for a resource page. Mostly just pdfs and word documents will be hosted, but the two main features I'm looking for is the ability to restrict pages based upon user privileges and for blog- style comments between the users. From what I've researched, mediawiki can easily do the first part with restricting users, but I haven't had much luck finding any plugins for comments. I'm trying to avoid the discussion style pages from wikipedia, and have more of a comments just under the article. So far I'm leaning towards trying Tiki out, any other recommendations?


I need a multi-language site with webshop functionality. Which CMS to choose?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I need to develop a multi-language site which includes simple webshop functionality. I have extended experience with WordPress. There are numerous shopping cart plugins available for WordPress however none of them is compatible with multi-language plugins such as WMPL. Drupal is an option I looked into (using i18n and Ubercart) and I am not sure this is the solution I am looking for. Another solution I considered is to develop a custom WordPress cart plugin that is compatible with WPML. Anyone familiar with this situation? Any recommendation regarding CMSes that fit my needs? Thanks!


Photo contest plugin

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? Consider this template I would like to build a similar site looking site which allows users to register and upload their images. Each image should have title and short description, provided by the uploader, and be immeaditely available on the site once upload is complete. Any suggestions?


Django plugable news story application

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Are there any plugable django blog apps that can be embeded into existing pages or templates. It doesn't have to be a full fledged blogging engine. The features I am looking for are:   * Displaying multiple stories with 'read more' button. Display should be like news items on a news-agregator, without the regular features of blogs like commenting or social networking buttons.   * Url for each story   * Support for pagination to limit the number of stories that can apper on the home page.   * Loadable on to the existing pages or templates. If there are no such apps, suggestions for how the modules (views, models, urls) can be written are welcome.


CMS without templates

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? I am looking for a CMS where I can layout the page from scratch using HTML/PHP/CSS and simply enter code such as:-               FOR EACH (listOfArticles) SORT mostRecent CATEGORY news LIMIT 5
{title}

{body}
     END      to get a list of the five most recent articles of a certain category in the relevant place. Does such a thing exist anymore? Unless my mind is playing tricks on me, the CMSs of five or ten years ago had this approach. I am thinking of MovableType and the now defunct CityDesk. It seems to me that CMSs these days have a 'templates first' approach. I.E. you must always choose a template before doing anything - which I find really painful. Learning how to design these structured templates also seems overly painful. So can anyone help me in my quest? Thank you, Mark


Secure enterprise wiki technology?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for a secure wiki technology that will allow shared note taking and documentation. Security, organization, and revision control are critical. Any advice will be appreciated!


non-invasive database content management?

I work for a group that has an already existing, built-from-scratch LAMP (plus javascript) website. There are currently no content management systems in place, and up to now the method for updating content has been for one of us more database savvy employees to simply manually update the database through mysql workbench, etc. I'm looking for a solution that would allow us to customize an interface for non-developers to update certain content that lives in our mysql database. The problem is, I don't want it to also have control over our page templates and front end styling, as that is already all in place and incorporates many complex web apps that could be difficult to incorporate into a site managed by a full CMS such as Drupal. cushyCMS has functionality very close to the scope I am looking for, but it deals in direct editing of specific html files, whereas I am searching for something that would allow users to edit specific parts of a database. Ideally, I imagine a drupal-like interface for user editing/input (ie drop- down menus, limited functionality so people can't break things, etc.) but applied to a pre-existing database. Anyone caught any wind of something such as this?


background css help

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  image behind adsense i have a google ad, where i want to place an image, i tired the css, but the image is not coming properly, my google ad size is height=280, width=336 the image url is http://www.clker.com/cliparts/e/p/V/F/o/0/notepad-hi.png i want this image behind my ad, i tried this following code:-               {         background:url("http://www.clker.com/cliparts/e/p/V/F/o/0/notepad-hi.png")transparent;         height: 300px;         padding: 50px 30px 0;         width: 350px;         }


Change folder name in server

If I change a folder name in server ant thus the URL will be changed, could I perform 301 redirection or this is only for the case that the web page has been transferred to another folder?


Prevent Google Indexing SubDomains

I have cPanel Hosting with only 1 IP. I'm in the process of pointing all my TLDS over to this server. I have created 'Addon Domains' and all the folders from which it creates are located in sub directories 'domain1.com' , 'domain2.com' in my root website '/home/user/public_html/client/' but they can be accessed from 'domain1.maindomain.com'. The thing that is worrying me is if google indexes these subdomains. What can I do to prevent this, would a rewrite rule like this be sufficient?               RewriteEngine on  RewriteCond     %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domainpointtosubfolder\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule     ^(.*)$ http://www.domainpointtosubfolder.com/$1 [L,R=301]       Or is there a better way?


How to manage a site trying out different technologies?

I'm a complete newbie to web hosting. I only have programming skills, but I'd like to acquire a domain. Then I'd even like to have the chance to manage different technologies for hosting web sites and applications. I mean, I don't only want to try the Apache, PHP and MySQL stack but try out with node.js and Ruby on Rails. These might be subdomains and each correspond to different technologies. What is the suggested setup for using so many technologies?


Returning visitor stats reliably over longer periods of time in Google Analytics

I'm looking into how useful returning visitors stats in Google Analytics are over longer periods of time, such as two or three years. It seems that the `__utma` cookie is set to expire 2 years from set/update, so this suggests that this cookie should be updated each time the user visits the site, and the 2 year expiration reset. Would I be right in thinking then that it's reasonable to expect the returning visitors data to be no less accurate over longer periods than it is in the last year, for example?


Weird 404 crawl errors in Google webmaster tools

If anyone can help, I'd be very grateful! We're getting strange domains coming up in Google webmaster tools - they seem to be breeding. When I look where the links are coming from, it's either:   * non-existent pages on our website (usually) or   * some other site URL  I'll give some examples:   * hechenghai/article/enquiry/frmenquiry.aspx    * sql-server-reporting-services-training/~/ms-project/~/stored-procedures/~/enquiry/frmenquiry.aspx   * blogs/BradSchacht/ssis/blog/blog/enquiry/frmenquiry.aspx I'm sure Brad Schacht is a great guy, and hechenghai a great place, but I'd never heard of either of them till they turned up in Google tools, and they're certainly not on our website. Some things to help:   * I have a simple site map which Google knows about, and have checked this.   * We don't use an htaccess file (it's all in Windows)   * we don't use any illicit or black-hat techniques   * we generate the site from a .NET system which writes out the HTML pages You can see the site at http://www.wiseowl.co.uk


Is there a way to compile LESS files to CSS (so that every browser doesn't have to)?

I'm considering using LESS but I cringe at the thought of a browser having JavaScript disabled and my CSS not being readable (and the site looking awful). Also, it offends the engineer in me to force every browser to "compile" that Less file to .css when we could just "compile" it once every-time we modify it.


Is LESS ready for use in a production site?

I'm considering using the Twitter Bootstrap HTML/CSS templates which use Less (a sort of scripting language for CSS) I've never used it so I was wondering if it's ready for "prime time".


image map does not work on Opera and Mozilla browsers (only Google Chrome)

I have created a WordPress blog and inserted an image with map and some links inside, but I can't open any link by pressing on the page using any browser except Google Chrome. This is the code:
     <map id="imgmap2013948720" name="imgmap2013948720">     <area title="" alt="" coords="5,4,167,167" shape="rect" href="http://pretesti.ge/?page_id=14" target="_blank" />     <area title="" alt="" coords="174,6,336,165" shape="rect" href="http://pretesti.ge/?page_id=16" target="_blank" />     <area title="" alt="" coords="345,5,506,167" shape="rect" href="http://pretesti.ge/?page_id=18" target="_blank" />     <area title="" alt="" coords="514,5,678,169" shape="rect" href="http://pretesti.ge/?page_id=20" target="_blank" />          </map>


How to track click sources in a Google-compatible way?

On my website, I track when users click on a search result that brings them to a details page for an item. I then save what search query they used before they clicked. My current solution is this:   1. Each link in search results is in the form `/goto/<item_id>/?search_id=...`   2. `/goto/<item_id>/` saves that a user used a given search id to get to a given item, and then returns a 302 redirect to `/details/<item_id>/`   3. `/details/<item_id>/` displays the details page and does not do any tracking. For the users, everything works fine, but when I check Google search results for my page, the direct links to the details page URLs say `/goto/<item_id>/?search_id=...` with some old `search_id`, instead of `/details/<item_id>/`. I feel like I'm missing an obvious solution :) The only thing I came up with so far is using `/details/<item_id>/` links in HTML and using JavaScript to replace them all with `/goto/<item_id>/search_id=...`, but that seems like an overkill. Any better ideas?


What is the potential harm of using Google's Disavow Links tool?

Google gives a warning on its disavow links tool, that says: > This is an advanced feature and should only be used with caution. If used > incorrectly, this feature can potentially harm your site's performance in > Google's search results. We recommend that you only disavow backlinks if you > believe that there are a considerable number of spammy, artificial, or low- > quality links pointing to your site, and if you are confident that the links > are causing issues for you. What exactly is the risk of using this? If I have a bunch of spammy links that a competitor built, would there be any potential harm of disavowing them? EDIT: In my particular case, my main site has been delisted from Google's search results, and at approximately the same time, I noticed that I've started getting a lot of spammy links to my site. No warning has been issued by Google in webmaster tools, but I want to disavow the spammy links anyway.


can mod_rewrite be used for this problem?

We used to have a URL `http://www.abc.com/index.php?itemID=144` which is moved to `http://www.abc.com/index.php?itemID=1556` we want our users which are hitting the above url(144) to reach to 1556. How can it be achieved. If with mod_rewrite or anything else.


Should Site Title be Before or After Page Title?

Apologies if this is a dupe. I tried searching, but didn't find anything specifically addressing this concern. When creating a large(ish) site, page titles usually reference both the site name and the current page name. However, it seems there are two main conventions:               Bob's Awesome Site - Contact Page      and               Contact Page - Bob's Awesome Site      I've looked around, and pages usually use one of the two variants above. **Is there any reason to use one over the other? SEO/readability/usability/etc?** I've thought about it, and have only come up with:   * Page first - Differentiates the tab when the browser is crowded with lots of tabs   * Site first - Immediately see the "parent" site, so to speak; more cohesive experience


What is the easiest/lightest setup to get a basic LAMP stack setup for development?

I'm looking for a minimum of fuss here to get up and running. Bonuses: - cross platform - portable (can be installed/run from a USB) _Clarification: I'm not looking to setup a full-fledged remote testing server, I just need something simple that I can load localhost in my computer's browser and check my latest changes._


Shared Host VS Cloud server

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to choose between web hosting and cloud hosting? What the difference between a shared host and a cloud server. I have a url http://domain.com and with a shared host, easly I have FTP details where I can upload everything on the server. Is is the same with cloud server or is it the same as amazon Cloudfront where you haven't got FTP details etc? What are the differences in terms of speed? Thanks alot


Can you put content from your site on Facebook, or will that cause duplicate content?

I have a question about duplicate content. Is it okay to take a paragraph or two directly from your website and put it on Facebook page as a post say, about your products or services, or even your about us page? Does this harm your website ranking, have no impact or is it not worth doing because it may be problematic but there is no clear consensus? A coworker and I have been discussing this where I admit to being more concerned about it than they are.


Page doesn't show up in Google searches

When I search on Google for "pollackstorch" I get an invitation to the administrator rather than the page itself. When I search on Bing or AltaVista I get the page itself. How can I get Google to return the page itself like the others do?


Does Google Analytics data affect SEO?

I have several pages on my site that I did not include the Google Analytics code. Will it improve my site's Google ranking if I include the GA on all of my pages and increase the number of visits on GA?


Select cms to the construction site with e-learning

I want to suggest me someone who has experienced one cms or component to build website with e-learning


Global Statistics for Browser + Operating System

I'm trying to determine global statistics (similar to StatCounter's) for a combination of Browser + OS. For example, 35% (or whatever) of users are on XP **and** IE8. StatCounter only displays one or the other (ex. 47.32% on XP, 30.20% on IE8). Is anyone aware of a site that offers this information - preferably free of charge - or a way to glean it from StatCounter or others?


How should I prepare the design of a web page for a web developer?

What techniques, software or practices do you use to prepare a description of a web page for further development? I am doing some research (with little luck) in how to create description for web developers - what should be included on the web page (inputs widths, font sizes, images placement, etc). Right now I use a combination of Excel and Word documents. In complex cases this is inefficient. Any other suggestions?


Redirect *.example.com to example.com

I have some valid subdomains in my httpd.conf file. Now how do I redirect anything that's not a valid subdomain to the main website? What I mean is, if I have a valid subdomain hello.example.com, it should go to hello.example.com and if its blah.example.com which is not a valid subdomain, it should go to example.com. How can I make changes in my httpd.conf file to follow everything I just mentioned?


Ad Block is blocking some images, excluding others, on a site I host

I've created a website that has political banners (in .GIF and .PNG) with the intention of people being able to copy and embed them with the code provided below the image. Strangely, 3 of the 10 banners weren't appearing and I discovered that my Ad Block extension was treating those as ads, but none of the rest. They are all sourced from the same file path, they all contain relatively the same content, just different sizes. It would be my preference to not have these treated like ads whatsoever, but obviously that is not a decision for me to make. I'm curious as to why some are being excluded over others, though. If these are considered advertisements by the extension, it seems silly to me that as the 'source of advertisement' and host of this site, I can't simply provide something for others to share when they are voluntarily there to see just that. If this is something I have to eat for the greater good of preventing spam, then that's fine. I'm just curious to see if I have any options. Many thanks PWM


SSL on multiple directories

I have a website that is http, but has a port set up for https for a specific directory that is for the shopping cart. Now I'd like to use our SSL on a different directory in the same site as well. How can I go about configuring that? I have tried looking into all of the config files as well as the docs and cannot figure it out. I tried setting this in httpd.config as well               <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:[ssl port]>   #also tried *:[ssl port] and [actual IP]:[ssl port]         ServerAdmin shred@me.com         DocumentRoot "C:/path/sslNeededDir"         ServerName www.example.com     </VirtualHost>      hoping that it would cause pages in this directory to use ssl port and become https, but that didn't do anything. Any help is greatly appreciated. **Update:** This finally got migrated over. I'm still looking for a solid answer on this. If anyone could help me, it would be greatly appreciated.


Is it a good idea to make "safety copy" of articles from referring sites?

My wife has a small business with a website, of which I am the maintainer. (I am not a trained web developer, but know the basics of HTML and CSS.) There are already a few articles / blogs / news items about them online on other sites. She would like to keep a list of references to these. However, she would like to ensure that the articles are available even if the other site removed the original content or migrated it to another URL. So she somehow would like to store a copy of these articles on their own site. This raises a few questions to me. First of all, is it a legal and accepted practice in general (assuming we have the original owner's consent)? I know the legal part is country specific and I should rather consult a lawyer. At this point I am more interested in whether Google and other search engines penalize this, and how to play by the rules if possible.


Building a funnel retroactively in Google Analytics

I have a issue with trying to devise a funnel in Google Analytics. I am not looking to create a goal funnel, as I am looking to do it retroactively on my data so I need to either do the crunching manually or devise a strategy for it. I wish to see sessions who have navigated from these pages, for example:               / -> Category page A -> Cart -> Conversion     / -> Category page B -> Cart -> Conversion     / -> Category page C -> Cart -> Conversion      How would I go about creating a funnel like this in Google Analytics and extract this data **retroactively** (emphasis so I do not get recommendations for setting up goal funnels since I want to do this on already processed data)? I imagine I could use the segmentation sequence, but how reliable is that? I am getting sampled data very quickly and I want to be able to do this for a couple of months back, but I get sampled even after choosing a week. Any ideas?


What to do when we had a backlink (from a gone site) to one of our a 404 page?

Previously there was a page on our partner's site that had a link to our site. Now, this page and the whole partner's website is gone (404). But this page still exists in our website backlink profile. Do we need to disavow or take any other action regarding this partner's website (page)?


I have permission to republish articles. Do I need to use rel=canonical?

I made a deal with a guy. I will give him advertising on my site for his business. He will give me permission to reprint the articles that appear on his site (he wrote them). I was looking for a lot of content quickly and this gives it to me. But now I'm reading in order to not get dinged by Google, I need to pass any SERP power off to his sit using the rel="canonical" tag in the head of each page. Is this true?


Directing from a 1und1 hosting solution, with URLs intact

I have done this before on GoDaddy without a hitch, but I cannot seem to figure out this particular case. I have a domain space with temporary URL `http://yogainun.mysubname.com` and am hosting the domain name that is to be applied to it at `1und1.de`. Right now I have set it up so that from the 1und1 domain name hosting the address `http://www.yoga-in-unternehmen.de` is frame redirected to the subdomain that I just referred to. But this is not what I want. `http://www.yoga-in-unternehmen.de` is to be the domain. With the frame redirect, URL's like `http://www.yoga-in-unternehmen.de/example-article` do not show up. But this is what I want. With GoDaddy in a similar case, I just turned on DNS and changed the name servers. That worked without problem, but with 1und1 not. Is there something I am missing?


How to have a blogspot blog in my domain?

I have a blog at http://afsharm.blogspot.com. How can I have this blog and all old posts, comments and templates in my own domain like http://myowndomain.com/? Which specifications this domain must have?


How can I redirect everything but the index as 410?

Our site shut down and we need to give a 410 redirect to the users. We have a small one-page replacement site set up in the same domain and a custom 410 error page. We'd like to have it so that all page views are responded with 410 and redirected to the error page, except for the front page, which should point to the new `index.html`. Here's what in the _.htaccess_ :               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule !^index\.html$ index.html [L,R=410]      This works, except for one thing: **If I type the domain name, I get the 410 page**. With `www.example.com/index.html` I see the index page as I should, but just `www.example.com` gets 410. How could I fix this?


Does anyone have statistics on percentage of people that use search feature on a website as opposed to the navigation bar

I was interested in knowing percentage of people that use search feature on a website as opposed to the navigation bar. Has search bar become more powerful than the traditional navigation bar for finding data on the site? Has the "sitemap" become obsolete? I know it might be a subjective question but if someone has statistics on this or a white/technical paper, that will be great.


Cache a particular image using .htaccess

I would like to cache a particular image on my website i.e the background image. So far i only see options that allow you to define the format type(png|jpg|ico) is there anyway to let the browser cache the background


Will dofollow backlinks in a syndicated article improve backlinked pages' rankings?

Do dofollow backlinks from duplicate articles across different sites improve site rankings? I guess Google etc may like to discount completely the duplicate articles and backlinks in it. Shouldn't this non-sense duplication of content be penalized?


How to check if a WordPress SEO plugin is working

I have setup my WordPress site with Yoast. However, it doesn't seem to appear in any of the search engines. In Google Webmaster Tools I don't see a sitemap. Is the plugin supposed to submit the sitemap and should it appear in Google Webmaster Tools? How do I know if it has been submitted to other search engines?


Hosting terminology explained

I am learning the Play framework, and while looking for a place to host (never hosted a site before) I find myself lost in this world. I do not understand the terminology used for pricing. I have visited several sites:   * http://www.cloudbees.com/pricing-standard-services.cb   * http://www.heroku.com/pricing#1-1   * http://aws.amazon.com/en/ec2/#pricing   * http://www.playapps.net/pricing All have various tables with hard to understand pricing elements (some of which you need to set) such as   * Build Usage (Builds per day, Average build duration, Working days per month..)    * Dynos? worker dynos, web dynos? I am just looking to host a small website I developed (currently for learning purposes with an option to maybe grow). I don't know if the listed hosting options above are actually good for me, can any one explain the basics, or at least point me at the right direction? (also can I use any site that supports Java hosting such as `http://javaprovider.net/` for running a Play app?)


How do I access PHPMyAdmin after install in Ubuntu?

I installed Apache and then PHPMyAdmin on my Ubuntu server, but I have not been able to access PHPMyAdmin at `http://localhost/phpmyadmin/`. `http://localhost` is working however.


Having an iframe of which inside the page has a noindex nofollow tag would it affect the rankings of the page having the iframe? Is it cloaking?

We have a website with video content delivered from a video studio and hosted on their site since we don't want to load our server with it. The content we are embedding is payed for and we don't to rank the videos (since they are hosted elsewhere and we embed them) but to rank our posts with the videos in them. The pages in the website aren't just with the embedded videos, it has a brief review of the video inside it also. Explanation of the concept and construction: Site **_example.com_** has an iframe:                <iframe src="http://www.example.com/steve.html"></iframe>       Inside the file **_steve.html_** which is under the same domain example.com there are the meta tags:               <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">     <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOFOLLOW">      And in the body there is another iframe video embed code from the external website. Now my questions are: _Is this considered cloaking?_ _Would we be better off without the nofollow/noindex as now Google cant see the iframed content and where the video iframe is in Google eyes appears a big nothing?_ Any suggestions? Edit to clarify it a bit here: We have a post Example.com/review Inside it there is an iframe (example.com/iframespace with no follow/noindex) inside this iframe (example.com/iframespace) there is another iframe of the video embed code. Would the iframe with the nofollow/noindex affect the post example.com/review which contains the iframe?


What database use for huge servers?

Suppose I had a HUGE website (which I don't, but let's suppose), the common MySQL on a single server wouldn't work, because the MySQL server wouldn't be able to handle thousands of requests per second fast enough. How can you have several database servers that link to the same data but work independently of each other? **What are the softwares available?**


Hosting multiple low traffic websites on ec2

We have like 30 websites with almost no traffic (<~10 visits / day) which are currently hosted on a dedicated server. We are evaluating hosting on Amazon EC2 however I'm not sure how to do that properly.   * One (micro) instance per website is too expensive   * ~10 websites on one instance (using apache virtual hosts) make auto scaling impossible (or at least difficult) Or is cloud computing not suitable for such a usecase?


Do other search engines support Google's "hash bang" syntax for crawling AJAX applications?

Google has a really nice document explaining how web developers can get Google to crawl non-AJAX versions of their web applications to make it possible for Google to index AJAX-heavy websites. Do any other search engines support this standard? I'm specifically interested in the fragment `meta` tag method, not just the `#!` URL method.


Does the name server reported by whois get automatically updated when moving hosts?

This is regarding the nameserver info shown on who.is, example:               name server: ns1.NS-example.net      When a domain is transferred to another host provider, is it possible for whois to show a nameserver from a previous host? Does this info automatically get updated via the new server settings?


How should I structure my URLs for both SEO and localization?

When I set up a site in multiple languages, how should I set up my URLs for search engines and usability? Let's say my site is `www.example.com`, and I'm translating into French and Spanish. What is best for usability and SEO? **Directory option:**               http://www.example.com/sample.html     http://www.example.com/fr/sample.html     http://www.example.com/es/sample.html      **Subdomain option:**               http://www.example.com/sample.html     http://fr.example.com/sample.html     http://es.example.com/sample.html      **Filename option:**               http://www.example.com/sample.html     http://www.example.com/sample.fr.html     http://www.example.com/sample.es.html      **Accept-Language header:** Or should I simply parse the `Accept-Language` header and generate content server-side to suit that header? Is there another way to do this? If the different language versions don't have different urls, what do I do about the search engines? * * * _**UPDATE 2011-12-06_** _Google has new recommendations for`meta` tags for explicitly pointing to other language content: New markup for multilingual content._ _**UPDATE 2012-05-25_** Related but not precisely: Multilingual and multinational site annotations in Sitemaps _**UPDATE 2013-06-12_** Targeting site content to a specific country includes discussion of several URL schemes directly relevant to the question.


multilingual mobile site and google seo

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? What's the preferred SEO compliance for a mobile website that is multilingual ? I have - web:               en: http://mysite.com     fr: http://fr.mysite.com     es: http://es.mysite.com      mobi:               http://m.mysite.com      Should I use http://m.fr.mysite.com for my mobile french version ? Nothing is specified on google blog for mobile : http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/new-markup-for- multilingual-content.html


We built a website targeting different regions but with the same English language (Ireland, England and America). The content for the most part is the same set up on 3 different subfolders. `http://www.example.com/` - targeting the United States in WMT `http://www.example.com/ie` - targeting Ireland in WMT `http://www.example.com/uk` - targeting UK in WMT Do I have duplicate content issues to be worried about? If so, how do I get around this issue? Also is there anyway of finding out if Google have in some way penalised these pages for having the same content on other pages trageting different countries? I have not received any messages from Google in WMT saying there is duplicate so I'm not sure if this is an issue.


Are there advantages of using hard coded URLs for localization?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? On the Synergy website, localization is detected (and can be overridden) but uses the same URL for all languages. Some websites however, like Wikipedia have language specific subdomains. What are the advantages of having either subdomains or subdirectories (i.e. a specific URL) for each language localization? Also, should it automatically redirect the user to the specific subdomain/subdir based on the language that the browser requests? I suspect that there are advantages, which I'm guessing are:   1. When the website appears in search results for non-English languages, the translated page description will be shown (assuming there is a translation provided by the website).   2. When a user shares a page (e.g. through twitter), it will show in a specific language. Perhaps this is a disadvantage though? Am I correct, if so, are there more advantages?


SEO & PageRank optimization when using translated content across three different TLDs

We have a website **example.gr** translated in three languages (Greek, English & German).   We have also registered two more TLDs **example.com** & **example.de** So far, based on what the user types in his(her) browser we have...               example.gr - shows the Greek content       example.com - shows the English content       example.de - shows the German content      The content in languages English & German is a translation of the Greek content. The company is starting to expand world wide, so I am thinking of redirecting (301 Permanent Redirect) all domains... example.gr, example.de (with or without www) and example.com to **www.example.com** Is that a good practice (SEO and PageRank)? Or it would be better to redirect               example.gr (with or without www) to www.example.com/?lang=gr       example.de (with or without www) to www.example.com/?lang=de       example.com to www.example.com (the English content)        Please advise.


Country specific website URL for SEO

I am developing a new site and have two domains. One is the `.com` domain and the other is the country specific `.in` domain . The market for my products is both in India and and globally and outside of India. Is it in any way beneficial from an SEO perspective to have a country specific URL or does it not matter?


What is the best strategy for multilingual websites

I've been asked to create a site which targets multiple languages. The client is multilingual themselves so coming up with the content in different languages is no problem. My aim is to get the best SEO in all languages but at the same time not split the SEO equity across multiple domains (.co.uk, .de etc...). Is there a viable way I can create a multilanguage site under one (domain) roof, and if not, what other strategies are there?


different content, same url, bad for SEO?

I want to translate the page based on the accept-language headers, do I need to redirect to /$lang or having different content(actually same content but translated) in the same url is ok?


How do avoid dupe content with different countries+locales?

I'm considering hosting different translations of my web site via a subdirectory for each; for example:               http://www.mydomain.com/en-US/     http://www.mydomain.com/en-CA/     http://www.mydomain.com/fr-CA/     http://www.mydomain.com/fr-FR/      (or I will use subdomains instead of subdirectories). The en-US and en-CA pages may have very similar content, and I am worried Google will see this as dupe content. There may be multiple paragraphs with exactly the same text, and maybe a heading will have one different word in it...so both pages may be 90% - 95% the same. Will this be a problem? How can I avoid my site ranking from being affected for dupe content?


What is better with 3 languages: domain-lang.org x 3, domain.org/lang or lang.domain.org?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? I have three domains for similar content in three languages. One in each. I have now been told that the languages are better off as subdomains or even as sections. My question is, thus, what is best from a SEO point of view:   * domain- **lang**. com/    * **lang**. domain. com/    * domain. com/ **lang** /


What's the best way to split up the multilingual parts of my site?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? I want to have my site available in several different languages. I've seen some sites that use country code top level domains (jp.blah.com), some include the language in the URL ( blah.com/jp/questions ), and some don't even include the language in the URL and just use the browsers locality setting or cookies to determine the language to be displayed. What are the pros and cons of each approach? Are there any techniques that I missed?


Should I have a separate URL for each language and each page?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? Please be specific, I already plan to change the language based on the Accept Language header, and then any user-specific overrides (in a cookie) Basically: Should I have example.com/es and example.com/cn or just example.com with different content? Situations to consider: I link you to an english language version of example.com but you are a native Chinese reader. Should you go to example.com and see Chinese? English? or be redirected to example.com/cn? Do google and bing (and Baidu) crawl multiple times with different Accept- Language headers? I'd guess not but I'd like references. Even if they did, having separate URIs would probably get you crawled quicker, because you could put each one in your sitemap. What would I do in either case if I don't have some given content translated? Like a blog post that is english only on the day it is published. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks


Moving one site in Webmaster Tools to more than one site

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? I have a Question and Answer site about immigration. now I divided it into 2 sites: **mysite.co.uk** about immigration to UK **mysite.com** with sub domains for every country, Like: _australia.mysite.com_ , _sweden.mysite.com_ , ... now I had moved All the content from my first site into .co.uk and .com site and it's sub domains to fill theme. I now that Google will detect my new 2 sites as duplicate of first on and it is very bad for SEO. and I don't think Google webmaster tools has a tool for it. so Please Guide me how to fix this problem.


SEO - Language on Static site

We have been tasked with re-building a Wordpress site for a spanish hotel - Its currently a Wordpress site - but they want it re-designed as an attractive static HTML site - all pretty straightforward - other than the fact that it currently has a language switcher (English to Spanish and visa versa). Being a static site I felt the easiest way to approach the change of language was to duplicate the site and add text to a spanish version of the site in a /spane folder - and simply add links to the folder and to the root depending on language pref. My questionsis - would this approach have any negative SEO implications (having dual content)? Can anyone recommend a better solution if so?


Multiple country-specific domains or one global domain

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? My company currently has its main (English) site on a .com domain with a .co.uk alias. In addition, we have separate sites for certain other countries - these are also hosted in the UK but are distinct sites with a country- specific domain names (.de, .fr, .se, .es), and the sites have differing amounts of distinct but overlapping content, For example, the .es site is entirely in Spanish and has a page for every section of the UK site but little else. Whereas the .de site has much more content (but still less than the UK site), in German, and geared towards our business focus in that country. The main point is that the content in the additional sites is a subset of the UK, is translated into the local language, and although sometimes is simply only a translated version of UK content, it is usually 'tweaked' for the local market, and in certain areas, contains unique content. The other sites get a fraction of the traffic of the UK site. This is perfectly understandable since the biggest chunk of work comes from the UK, and we've been established here for over 30 years. However, we are wanting to build up our overseas business and part of that is building up our websites to support this. **The Question:** I posed a suggestion to the business that we might consider consolidating all our websites onto the .com domain but with /en/de/fr/se/etc sections, as plenty of other companies seem to do. The theory was that the non-english sites would benefit from the greater reputation of the parent .com domain, and that all the content would be mutually supporting - my fear is that the child domains on their own are too small to compete on their own compared to competitors who are established in these countries. Speaking to an SEO consultant from my hosting company, he feels that this move _would_ have some benefit (for the reasons mentioned), but they would likely be significantly outweighed by the loss of the benefits of localised domains. Specifically, he said that since the Panda update, and particularly the two sets of changes this year, that we would lose more than we would gain. Having done some Panda research since, I've had my eyes opened on many issues, but curiously I haven't come across much that mentions localised domain names, though I do question whether Google would see it as duplicated content. It's not that I disagree with the consultant, I just want to know more before I make recommendations to my company. _What is the prevailing opinion in this case? Would I gain anything from consolidating country-specific content onto one domain? Would Google see this as duplicate content? Would there be an even greater penalty from the loss of country-specific domains? And is there anything else I can do to help support the smaller, country-specific domains?_


Delay before getting URLs into Google's in web index?

4 days ago, I have submitted a `sitemap.xml` into Google's WebMaster Tool for a new website. It contains 3 entries. I have tested the site map and Google found not errors. In about how much time can I expect URL entries to be added in Google's web index? It is still 0 for now.


How do I map a (keyword rich) domain name to an existing website?

I am not experienced technical person, and still learning but will try to explain what I have done so far and what my query is. I have a (hypothetical) domain az-studios.com On that domain I have 3 subdomains: **london.az-studios.com** **newyork.az-studios.com** **paris.az-studios.com** Each of them have 301 header redirections as follows: **london.az-studios.com** -> **www.az-studios.com/london** **newyork.az-studios.com** -> **www.az-studios.com/newyork** **paris.az-studios.com** -> **www.az-studios.com/paris** So I can maintain only one unique HTML document (that appears to be three different paths) I have setup .htaccess to use MOD_REWRITE as follows: **www.az-studios.com/london** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=london** **www.az-studios.com/newyork** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=newyork** **www.az-studios.com/paris** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=paris** This is so far the existing structure. I have recently purchased three (hypothetical) keyword rich domains: **movie-studio-london.com** **movie-studio-newyork.com** **movie-studio-paris.com** What I would like to achieve is to have these three domains pointing as following: **www.movie-studio-london.com** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=london** **www.movie-studio-newyork.com** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=newyork** **www.movie-studio-paris.com** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=paris** The only tricky thing I can't figure out is how I do that so that from a Google SEO point of view, it does not use 301 redirects, no frame. I would like **www.movie-studio-london.com** to show to visitors (and especially Google bots) as a standard website (with no funny JavaScript, links, 301 redirect, frames etc). Some of you might scream "duplicate content" but the websites, although using the same index.php are _very_ different. I am also aware that this could be seen as doorway but these new purchased domains really define (with keywords) my products and what the different websites are about. Any idea? Any more details, please ask... Thanks Vincent


Does naming my website like this cause a copyright infrigment?

I want to create a website for a particular industry. There is a term that is used quite widely in the industry - for the sake of argument, lets say the expression is " **great scott** ". The term is used by a lot of people - and as far as I know, the expression ("great scott" in this example), is in the "public domain", in that it is used freely by all and sundry, and the term is generally understood without having to explicitly state what the words mean. Having said all that, there is an industry 500lb equivalent gorilla, which has a domain with the domain name **www.greatscott.com**. However, the domain **www.egreatscott.com** is available. What is the risk (or indeed legal basis of) a legal suit from the 500lb gorrila company if I start my website (which is in the same industry), using the domain name **www.egreatscott.com** ? Are there any legal precedents for such a law suit?


Looking for dedicated volunteer matching website software

I am building a medical volunteering website for a NFP using Wordpress and the Nine to Five theme. It is working (in a test environment) okay, but wondering if anyone has come across dedicated volunteer matching website software.


My .htaccess entry is not working

The below are all my .htaccess entry:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.acethehimalaya\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule (.*) http://www.acethehimalaya.com/$1 [R=301,L]          redirect 301 /brochure_request.php http://www.acethehimalaya.com/request-brochures.html     redirect 301 /testimonials.php http://www.acethehimalaya.com/testimonials.html          RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php     RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://www.acethehimalaya.com/$1 [R=301,L]      But the last entry for redirecting:               http://www.acethehimalaya.com/tripdetails.php?trip_id=8         to               http://www.acethehimalaya.com/destinations/nepal/nepal-trekking/everest-base-camp-budget-trek.html      is not working. The code i have used is below:               RewriteCond   %{REQUEST_URI}    ^/tripdetails.php$     RewriteCond   %{QUERY_STRING}   ^trip_id=8$     RewriteRule   ^(.*)$ http://www.acethehimalaya.com/destinations/nepal/nepal-trekking/everest-base-camp-budget-trek.html  [R=301,L]      Its been like days and i m struck so can anybody figure this out.


What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google?


Basic SEO Optimization

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? What are the basic things a webmaster can do to make it's site SEO optimized? I know of adding page relevant keyword and description in the meta tag... What are the others? Thanks.


Google is not indexing my pages

I just typed a post title from a few days ago into Google with "quotes" around it and nothing is showing up. Does Google hate me? I am doing nothing but white hat marketing and even took down the pictures that I ripped from other sites. Does any one have any suggestions?


How to give SEO support for our website?

I wanna to asking, how to give SEO support for our website? How to get high page rank in search engine for our website. Please give/share about the trick or knowledge. Thank you. Regards, Lena


Most of my pages weren't indexed

I've submitted a sitemap (XML) of my Drupal (7) site to Google Webmaster Tools and it says that my sitemap contains 285 pages and that only 87 pages were indexed. There are no errors and no additional info or problems. There are no duplicates. Any idea why most of my pages weren't indexed? When I Google my site ( i.e.: search the following in Google : `site:www.mysite.com/`), I get ~200 pages (results) which is better, but not perfect.


Webmaster tools shows zero page indexed

I have a website with over 60 articles (dynamic pages), a couple of profile pages, about sections, terms of use, contacts, pretty much everything. I've added my site to webmaster tools and it seems that it is being crawled but not indexed. I don't have a site map but I have other pages which are designed in the same way, yet they seem to be indexed fine. What could be the problem? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/S5wZb.png) On a second thought it seems that very few pages are crawled. _**Could it be that all my pages are on sub domains?_**


Promoting certain keywords

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I am not a person from SEO background so its quite possible that my question might either is off topic or is not a valid one. i have developed a web-site (TheColorsofMySoul) using WordPress and its basically for writers, portal in itself contains a variety of topics. Though i am taking care of providing good titles, descriptions as well keywords of each posts which is being published but i want to promote some specific words in general. e.g Site is for writers and bloggers so i want to promote some specific keywords like "online writing community" so that if some one search for such words on Google, search engine can place my site on some top results. i know that its quite a big tasks but i am not sure how to use those words in my site so that i can able to boost the search result ranking for these words any help/resources will really be helpful for me


Google is not indexing the entirety of my site

I require google to index the entirety of my site: 10 or so basic sections with 80,000+ individual job offer pages. However, to date, only 2,900 pages have been indexed by google. I'd like to know why... only 2,900 but not 80,000+. I figure, if there were something wrong with my job offer pages, then there wouldn't be those 2,900 values indexed but rather 0... I have a 'page' sitemap which, link by link, leads to each and every ad (paginated) My XML sitemap is lacking though. So does this mean you absolutely need an XML sitemap when you're dealing with tens of thousands of unique pages? http://haytrabajo.mx is the URL http://haytrabajo.mx/mapa is the 'page' sitemap


Add my dynamic page URL to Google results

Now I am working on Google SEO. My website URL is like `http://example.com` and When I Google it I can get my website results on top of the page. But my domain has a dynamic link like:               http://example.com/about/alax     http://example.com/about/john     http://example.com/about/max     http://example.com/about/selva     and so...      So when I Google it with query like `alax sit:example.com` in Google text box, it shows empty result.   1. How can I add all my links to Google?   2. What I need to do for getting the result from Google?


Can anyone recommened some up to date documentation on SEO

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I havnt done this for a while and know that search engines are more clever now. Does anyone know of some good tips or websites to tell me how to do SEO properly, preferably using modern standards (not the old- add 300 tags to the page).


Homepage not showing on Google

About six weeks ago my homepage (mayberrykayakingdotcodotuk) disappeared from the google organic search for "kayaking pembrokeshire" despite it having been number 2 within a few weeks of it's launch last summer. My previous site (www.mikemayberrykayakingdotcodotuk) had been 2nd for about six years and has 301 redirects for all pages to the new site. Google toolbar still rates the homepage as 3/10 and the domain is still showing in search results, just not the homepage. A little research suggests that this is most likely to be due to an issue with google treating two pages as identical content (one with www. and one with not) since the changes in their algorithms around that time and that the way to fix this is to add some code somewhere. This makes sense to me as my print advertising doesn't have the www part of the address. I have cpanel access but a limited knowledge on web coding, having picked things up as I've gone along and paid for designers etc., when needed. Would someone be able to let me know where I have to go to add the code and what code I need to add to redirect the crawlers to one page? Or is there another issue that is causing this?


Why isn't Google crawling on my blog?

I have a blog. I made it in August, 2010. It has been awhile, but I am unable to make Google crawl on my site. I have requested Google to crawl but there is still no response. Are there any reasons of note why it is happening?


Why my website doesn't appear in Google search results?

I've made a simple website for a friend's bakery and it doesn't appear in Google's search results **even if I search for the whole domain name** of the site. What can be the problem? How to make it appear? (The site)


How I can optimize my websites into the search engines?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? How I can optimize my thesewebsites into the search engines? http://capablerealestate.com http://ajnaralondonsquare.co.in


What is the best ways to generate organic traffic?

After introducing the Google Panda, bloggers and webmaster have been facing the great challenges. Duplicate content is the key issue and spam boat traffic is second issues for Google Panda in this great critical situation, how to beat Google Panda and what are the best sources to drive organic traffic? Is there any pragmatic solution over this probolem?


SEO Tips and Tricks for web developers

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I know most of the Users of Stackoverflow would have knowledge about **Search Engine Optimization(SEO)**.. Any tips and tricks about SEO for your fellow web developers ... **EDIT:**   * Good book about SEO?   * Good blogs/websites about SEO?


Debugging reason for specific site sections with significantly low appearance in SERP

I'm experiencing very little exposure for specific sections in my site compared to different sections. Most of my traffic is long-tail queries, in the popular SERP, and non-popular SERP sections. I know this is a pretty broad question, but, how would you suggest debugging possible reasons for this issue? Specific Info:   * 'Problematic' pages are linked to from 'popular' pages and sitemap   * Most of Titles of 'Problematic' pages are similar to title of 'popular' pages, but not exactly the same.   * Most of these pages don't have many internal or external links   * These pages contain many photos and not a lot of text   * Google has indexed about 175k pages (from 1M), but only displays in SERP about 10.    * Pages don't include 'noindex' Any insights appreciated.


What is Google search engine interested in on HTML pages?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I know there are meta keywords, HTML structure, and site map but what else is Google interested in?


How do I make the home page of the website to come up in the rankings than the internal pages?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? Suppose I have a website, e.g. **`www.example.com`** that comes at **number 6** on the Google search rankings. But the internal pages of the website i.e. **`www.example.com/index.php?a=1&b=2`** or **`www.example.com/index.php`** comes at **number 2** of the rankings. How would I make my prime domain name **www.example.com** to come at the top of the list ? Any guidance would be appreciated.


What more to use for SEO?

I was wondering how I could optimise the Google results? when I type the name of my company it wil show up, but I would like it to also show up if I type (design langezwaag) or (webdesign langezwaag) because i'm the only people in the village i'm living in that is doing this kind of stuff. My company isn't registered because i'm only a student. What i'm already using:   Google site search (I think this helps some)   Google Analytics   Share this plugin   News page   Meta and alt : i'm not using (I read Google doesn't indexes those anymore)   No links page : heard that system of links and backlinks isn't usefull anymore.   Is it possible to make it an bigger range of search terms to be found at? or any other ways to optimise the possibility to be found any more? --- edit --- Also using most and falid as possible HTML5 and CSS3 think I read Google also checks this. ---edit---      Most of the page are .php files son't know if that makes any difference.


On-Page optimization of Home Page

How to do on-page optimization of a home page (for a industrial company/ product developement co, service provider etc) ? Home page of a site as compared to a blog is a mother page a base page where it provide snapshot of all the services the company, professional has to offer and other important info like internal page links and contact info ?


Some queries about Blogger SEO

I have been using Blogger from past 2 years and happy with it. Recently I read many articles saying WordPress is far more better than Google Blogger in terms of SEO. That can be true to some extent. But what I think is if you have good content and SEO optimization, your blog and site will get higher rank irrespective of your using WordPress or Blogger. **What can I do to improve my Blogger's rank?** I have been reading SEO articles from last 2 weeks and thinking of implementing some of the things in my next post. I am implementing following things for better SEO. I would love if someone would correct me if I am making any mistakes. 1.Titles are important and the URL too. Blogger allows 40 characters in URL that's why I post the title with keywords in it and then I re-post it with the actual title I want users to see. For example: if my post is about "Best outfits" I will post with title "worlds best women men outfits clothing" which has keywords and Blogger will create url like `www.xyz.blogspot.com/06/11/worlds-latest -best-women-men-outfits` Then I can re-post it with new user readable title "World's Best Outfits For Men & Women, Latest Trends in Outfits"   1. The first 200 words of the post are important, so I try to use the relevant important keywords at the beginning of post. But keyword stuffing can get my blog de-indexed from Google, so I try to make sentences from the keywords. For example I am writing about iPhone. I would use following line to start my post _"Article about iPhone, iPhone's release date, its features functions & price. Is Galaxy s2 better than iPhone 4"_ I am not sure if it is right or wrong ethically.   2. I try to give links of my another post at the starting of my current post or ending of my post. I have read somewhere that links containing keywords are weighted higher in search engines and search engines give more importance to starting and ending of the post.    3. I try using keywords in the whole post whenever it is possible, Around 7-8 times. I take care that I'm not stuffing keywords unnecessarily.   4. I use 4-5 labels(tags) for every post containing keywords and I show labels just before the post and after the post.   5. I keep at least 10 posts on my home page and label cloud and blog archive too.   6. SEO experts say Use `H2` tags for important keywords & titles. I am not sure, but does it really help? I try to put titles in `H2` or `H3` tags and if I am using titles inside the post I try to use `H2` tags for it.