9 Ways Your CMS Platform Isn’t SEO Friendly

Are you fighting a losing SEO battle? Trying to optimize and achieve good ranking results in the SERPs is practically impossible without a compatible and SEO friendly CMS platform.
If you’re in the process of redesigning your old website, looking to create a new one, or if you’re unsure where to start or what to do for software or a content management system, the following blog post will offer guidance as to what CMS platforms are the most SEO-friendly. Take the time to read and understand the benefits an inherently friendly CMS can offer—it’ll save you a lot of future time and stress.
You’ll need a CMS for your website if you:
In many scenarios, a CMS is a good idea—it’s very rare nowadays for a company or site owner to choose a static site over a dynamic alternative like Drupal, WordPress, or Joomla. These platforms are free, and extremely inexpensive to customize.
When making your CMS decision, ensure that your choice is search-engine friendly. There are many basic SEO issues that plague the majority of content management systems (both custom made platforms and standard). Choosing a CMS platform that minimizes these issues, you’ll reap the benefits of SEO and have a smoothly functioning platform for content delivery.
Common Problems With Non-SEO Friendly CMS Platforms:
No need to struggle with CMS problems when there are platforms like Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal available. Of course, the best CMS for your website does depend on your environment, website, budget, company, and SEO goals. Choose a platform that offers “clean URLs”, open source modules for custom (or automatic) URL renaming, easy URL redirection, creation of XML sitemaps, meta tags, a content first page structure, easy navigation, and more. Read our other blog posts on WordPress and Drupal to learn more about SEO friendly CMS options.