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Re: textpattern

__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Friday 21 April 2006 02:28 \__

> __/ [ David ] on Sunday 09 April 2006 00:02 \__
> 
>> On 7 Apr 2006 05:13:41 -0700, support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> 
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>We have a large static website with good google rankings for selected
>>>keywords. However, one of our developers wants to move to using
>>>Textpattern  - the content management software.
> 
> 
> Any move to a CMS is a wise one, it seems.
> 
> 
>>> Would this have an
>>>adverse effect on our rankings?
> 
> 
> Try to keep the old URL's in tact or else they may break. If you do a
> staged URL migration, do so carefully as to avoid duplicate content.
> 
> 
>> I've tried Textpattern and the end result is search engine friendly,
>> so it's not a bad choice for an easy optimised static website, will
>> take your static pages and put them into a database making them easier
>> to update templates etc...
> 
> 
> There may be plugins available, which add some meta content. This improves
> your site from an SEO perspective. I haven't any experience with this, but
> it's available for WordPress.
> 
> 
>>>We need to know whether it would be easier or harder for the googlebot
>>>to crwal the site and exactly how does it do it if the page viewed is
>>>actually creaetd on the fly?
>> 
>> Since Textpattern uses mod_rewrite Googlebot won't see dynamic URLs,
>> so in this case it's not even an issue. That said the major search
>> engines can spider dynamic looking URLs, so they are not a barrier to
>> spidering in themselves anyway. If you can avoid dynamic looking URLs
>> though you should.
> 
> 
> The generation of URL's and the underlying process is transparent (a 'black
> box' situation rather) to the crawler. Of your Web server is overloaded,
> however, pages will take longer to be delivered. This will have search
> engines assume that they interfere and crawling /may/ slow down.
> 
> 
>>> Any advice would be great.
>> 
>> Textpattern though very good lacks a usable template system (it really
>> sucks big time, takes ages to add a template and you can only use one
>> at a time!!). Take a look at Wordpress instead, it does basically the
>> same thing as Textpattern (and other things), but has a much better
>> template system in place and thousands of templates you can adapt to
>> your needs. You can upload hundreds of templates to Wordpress and test
>> them in seconds, to see if the look is what you want, with Textpattern
>> you'd have retired years earlier to test 100 templates (not kidding).
>> 
>> Never thought I'd be praising Wordpress which is a blogging tool :-)
> 
> 
> It is used increasingly as a CMS tool as well. It continues to improve.
> 
> 
>>> <snip />
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Roy

Addendum: published only yesterday...

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/04/20/from-weblog-to-cms.html

Roy

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