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[simonis]

Ik hoor vele verhalen over de rol die het CMS speelt op de vindbaarheid van de website door zoekmachines.

Hoe is de ervaring met Etomite in deze?

Jasno Shutters

[Jelmer]

Translating the question for a possible broader discussion:

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I hear a lot of stories about the role a CMS plays in making websites easier to find (and search) by search engines.

What's the experience with Etomite?

In my experience, Etomite does not guarantee a good pagerank. However, it makes it easy to create a well-structured website, with easy to access content for the SE's. Also it enables tools like a GoogleSiteMap, which should help you as well. But I'm by far not an expert on SEO...

[Ralph]

No software can guarantee pagerank... What a CMS such as Etomite can provide is a base from which uniform pages can be rendered in an effort to eliminate bad code that can cause search engines to not properly rank content... If your page template(s) is/are designed properly then all you need to worry about is providing good content, which is what page ranking is supposed to be based on anyway... It really doesn't matter how many people visit your site if the content is poor and the site doesn't flow right when they arrive there and they head to another site after a short period of time...

[vw53a]

Ik kreeg in google soms een hogere ranking met een etomite site dan een "concurrent" met z'n uploaded frontpage site, terwijl de zoekwoorden de naam van die "concurrent" betrof!

[Ed Headset]

vw53a, on Sep 12 2008, 12:44 PM, said:

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In Google I sometimes got a higher ranking with a Etomite site then another site with a uploaded Frontpage site, even when the keywords were the name of the other website.

Pages made with Frontpage are bad .
If you don't edit the pages, Frontpage sometimes doesn't even use the keyword etc., so search machines don't index it the right way.
Also Frontpage sometimes, if Frontpage isn't configured correctly, defaults to its base setting and will adds itself as "author" in the keywords.
So in this case it's obviously that Etomite wins in this scenario.
So there is one thing you must do, whatever you use, CMS, Frontpage, Dreamweaver, it does not matter.
Keep your Meta statements up-to-date!
use keywords that are perfect for your page, and do that for every page.
Don't use keywords that has nothing to do with your page, you could be banned by Google for doing that.

Update you page on a regular bases, search engines will crawl you page more often if it is updated frequently.

If you use Etomite, you will see it is more flexible to keep your pages updated, including your keywords etc. in comparison with Frontpage or Dreamweaver.

If you have paged that are W3C compliant, It is easy to keep your pages W3C compliant, what makes it better to crawl, easy to update, etc.

I hope this will explain it for you

Edited by Ed Headset, 14 September 2008 - 08:35 AM.