Could be interesting ... http://www.alledia.com/blog/seo_competition/ joomla_v._wordpress_v._drupal/ ... and maybe a good time to double check the SEO-ity of Drupal 5. ;) -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/
On 12/15/06, Dries Buytaert <dries.buytaert@gmail.com> wrote:
Could be interesting ...
http://www.alledia.com/blog/seo_competition/ joomla_v._wordpress_v._drupal/
... and maybe a good time to double check the SEO-ity of Drupal 5. ;)
Don't think this will work. They've made static websites without any categories, which is pretty much Drupal's weakest way of being setup. * If each article had tags, for instance, there would be more "pages" for each tag. * they used menu system for links, rather than primary links across the top (which would be more semantically correct) Basically, they're not "real" sites, and the biggest factor will be the theme used. I think the same experiment could be done with some configuration / design for "real" sites, but that obviously would be more work. -- Boris Mann Vancouver 778-896-2747 San Francisco 415-367-3595 Skype borismann http://www.bryght.com
Dries Buytaert wrote:
Could be interesting ...
http://www.alledia.com/blog/seo_competition/joomla_v._wordpress_v._drupal/
... and maybe a good time to double check the SEO-ity of Drupal 5. ;)
All you have to do is 'encourage' members of this list to link their own sites to the Drupal test site. SEO will rapidly become irrelevant and it will become a measure of how many bloggers like a particular blogging platform and choose to blog about this experiment with links to their favoured platforms test site. Type 'hairy heartthrob' into google and you will find an article about one of our system administrators - it took three of us to link to that to get it top of the search, plus it is a sufficiently obscure phrase. I think it would be wise not to waste any time on this:-) Plus the fact that the site map link on the Drupal site is broken (it looks like a joomla url!) -- Martin Tomes echo 'martin at tomes x org x uk'\ | sed -e 's/ x /\./g' -e 's/ at /@/' Visit http://www.subversionary.org/
What crap software is alledia.com being run on? I couldn't submit my comment in either Firefox or Safari. Weak. Dries Buytaert wrote:
Could be interesting ...
http://www.alledia.com/blog/seo_competition/joomla_v._wordpress_v._drupal/
... and maybe a good time to double check the SEO-ity of Drupal 5. ;)
-- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/
On 12/15/06, Robert Douglass <rob@robshouse.net> wrote:
What crap software is alledia.com being run on? I couldn't submit my comment in either Firefox or Safari. Weak.
It appears to be running on Joomla, and is apparently using my OpenSEF component to get SEO-friendly URLs (something I wrote back when I was yet ignorant of Drupal and wasting my time on the Dark Side ;-)) You not being able to submit a comment may be either my fault (SEO was a bitch to duct-tape onto the underlying, fundamentally broken architecture) or Joomla's. If the former, you have my apologies. -- Arto Bendiken | arto.bendiken@gmail.com | http://bendiken.net/
Am 15.12.2006 um 13:14 schrieb Arto Bendiken:
You not being able to submit a comment may be either my fault (SEO was a bitch to duct-tape onto the underlying, fundamentally broken architecture) or Joomla's. If the former, you have my apologies.
Digg: http://digg.com/OSS_war_Drupal_developers_break_Joomla Konstantin Käfer – http://kkaefer.com/
One thing they chose, is Indian city names. One of them is Amritsar (the one chosen for Drupal). Compared to the other two, it is indeed a crowded field. Those of you old enough to remember, Amritsar is the city where the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib) is, the most sacred shrine of the Sikh faith, and the Akal Takht (the highest political institution for Sikhs). It was the site of a big battle between the Indian Army and Sikh militants in the 1980s, and this is why Indira Ghandi was assassinated by her two Sikh guards. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bluestar) Incidentally, the "History" part misses all this http://www.amritsar.net.in/History-of-Amritsar The other two cities are fairly obscure (outside of India at least). So, the competition is not fair to start with. The Drupal site has to contend with many links out there on a fairly well known city with recent events, while the other two have no such competition. Also the choice of themes shows Drupal in a really lesser light than the other two. Friends Electric is cool as a "how to" theme, but is not good looking at all. (Sorry, this is the historian/geography buff in me talking).
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