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SEO Optimizing in UMBRACO
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Hi there,
I am planning to use UMBRACO to manage my existing website, so my question to Seomozzers out there is what should I be aware of, how safe is it to have UMBRACO in terms of SEO.
By using this software, would it be possible to get a positive or negative impact on my keyword rankings?
Thanks!
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thank you, Tom. I appreciate the information you have provided! great references as well.
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Hi there
Umbraco is a solid CMS and a good choice. It may not be as user-friendly out of the box as something like Wordpress, but it's certainly capable of being very SEO friendly. No CMS has one SEO 'advantage' over the other, Umbraco is as customisable as Wordpress and Joomla, for example. The problem would be how the CMS creates content for your site.
The one thing I would always consider is: if you're planning on using category/tag pages etc. for your blog content, make sure those pages are noindexed. You don't want Google to flag the pages as duplicate content.
Take a good look at how Umbraco generates pages, folders and categories - right down the architecture of your site for all URLs. Make sure none of those URLs could be seen as duplicate content. If they do, follow this guide to help remove the problem.
Here are some other useful links to get you going:
Our.Umbraco Forum - http://our.umbraco.org/forum
Umbraco Wiki - http://our.umbraco.org/wiki
Umbraco Projects - http://our.umbraco.org/projects
Umbraco.TV - http://umbraco.tv
Nibble.be - http://www.nibble.be
And here are some useful Umbraco plugins:
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