I hate it when people counteranswer my replies, with what they believe to be a better tool for the job.
And I hate it even more, when that reply is Joomla, Drupal, ShittyWiki or any other CMS.
And that is mainly because, when I am looking for a tool, I am looking at it from the 80/20 perspective. Always.
I look for tools, that allow me to do 20% of the effort for 80% the result.
And I am not talking only about CMSes, but for desktop applications, even online tools. Who cares if that version has that new shiny feature? It’s a tool, and it must be made to perform, not to be cool.
If you read my TLA vs TNX review, you will understand that I liked TNX simply because it works. No feedvertising, no other crap. Paste the code, submit the site, and forget about the whole thing.
Same goes for pingcrawl for example. Upload, install, and voila, you have deeplinks.
And of course the same goes for wordpress.
Sure, wordpress is for blogging. Sure, other CMSes have lots of other cute thingies.
But why bother with others, when you can rank a wordpress blog in no time?
And I honestly hate Joomla. Everytime I discuss about how much it sucks, the opposing argument is always “Oh, do you know how many great sites are built in Joomla?”
So what? And that makes my reply “Yeah, I know, but yours aint one of them.”
An Irish prick called dogfighter explained so nicely, why wordpress is so great for SEO, that I am going to quote it exactly:
Wordpress is an open source CMS that pings and is used primarily by sites that frequently update with original content. Also, most WP themes are well coded and search engine friendly. All things that Google loves, which is why a big fat wordpress footprint (yes, there is a footprint) is instant rapport.
I also added, that using the google xml sitemaps plugin, and submitting it to google webmaster tools, makes your site reach even 98% indexing.
And another thing, is that in a classic wp theme, every page has a depth of 1.2, meaning that almost every page is accessible from the homepage, making it a spider snack.
I recently had a client, that had an established site in Joomla, and wanted SEO work. It took me a month to tweak and optimize Joomla, with no results. Then I ripped the whole thing down, and spent 2 hours rebuilding the whole site in Wordpress, exactly as it was. A week later, he was ranking 20 spots up.
Mastering tools that require little to no maintenance, allows you to work on multiple projects simultaneously, and paying a small upkeep (in time, of course).
You really need to measure your time as an expense. Price it whatever you want, 1,2,5,10,100$ per hour, it does not matter. When you start factoring in the worth of your time, in every project you work on, you will soon shift to the “fire and forget” tools by yourself.
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