[grafx77]

I am wanting to start my first content oriented portal (topic not yet considered) and am curious to know which standard would be the best and easiest to use considering:
1. SEO
2. Ease of Article Publication (posting new content easily)
3. Organizing Content
4. Flexibility

I have considered blogs as a standard for some time now seeing that they provide quick SE results and allow administrators to post articles on the fly with adsense and affiliate links intertwined. They also provide RSS syndication as a capability as well. I currently use Wordpress for one of my smaller websites to help me generate more natural traffic, so I am up-to-date on how to operate and post new wordpress blogs.

On the other hand, I have yet to work with any CMS applications yet, but do believe that I can figure out my way around the application after a few days or so. The only reason why I am considering CMS is because most of the larger to medium sized content portals I find on the internet are built around some sort of CMS or php based application. This brings me to back to my main question.

Does CMS or other related applications have any true underlying value over Blogs when publishing content sites?

Any information on this would be truly helpful.
John

[EGOL]

CMS and Blogs are sort of the same. They give you a bit of automation to help you get content up and organized in a systematic way. The problem with both is that they are standardized posting systems. This limits your ability to do custom SEO and also custom internal linkage.

A standard website gives you optimal flexibility but is more labor intensive. Having your own CMS built or intensely customizing an existing CMS program should yield something closer to your needs - which also might change over time.

[grafx77]

EGOL,

So do you have any suggestions as to what method you would use? I know about alot plugins for Wordpress that enable your site to be more easily indexed by the SE by being able to type in description, title, and meta tags into each post. Im sure CMS applications have the same.

Its either CMS or another Blog for my next content driven website. I don't really see any edge from static HTML content sites over CMS/Blogs that would really push me to produce 50-200 .html pages.

[EGOL]

All of my sites are straight html pages... except for one blog done using blogger.

But, within a few months I will have one important site on a CMS that I have designed myself and hired someone to program for me.

I don't like the optimization or the linkage control offered by any of the commercial or free CMS.