Seo News & Articles

When we last visited the garden, we introduced the Eden Platform, a self-optimizing web content management system released by Preation. Designed to let entrepreneurs and marketers create and maintain an optimized website and generate more results without the need for any technical or web marketing expertise, Eden proved to be both affordable and useful.

Since then, the platform has seen a number of updates and enhancements directed at improving usability, marketing and website management. Let’s take a look.

Bridgeline Software (site, news) thinks that the better informed you are about a CMS selection process, the better your return of investment can be. That’s why they’ve released a report called Choosing a Content Management System for Maximizing Web Site ROI.

A new simple hosted web content management system that has been in private beta for the past three years and which focuses on usability and simplifying processes has just been release by Arizona based Ixpleo.

A free and open-source Web CMS from ImpressPages in Lithuania makes an instant impression with its drag-and-drop approach.

This week, newspapers employ a variety of strategies, from independent funding to niche topics to SEO to help them stay alive.  And Google acquires AdMob. 

A new OEM agreement between search applications company Endeca (news, site) and SAP (news, site) designed to improve enterprise-wide searches will result in the integration of SAP’s BusinessObject Intelligent Search software and Xcelsius visualization product into Endeca’s Information Access Platform (IAP).

Thanks to the integration of SAP’s Xcelsius and BusinessObjects Intelligence Search with IAP, users will be able to access information from multiple sources, including public web sources, and view it visually, whether the information is in response to it a simple business query, or a complex ‘what if’ scenario.

Endeca (news, site), the search applications company that kicked out an Information Access platform earlier this year, is stepping it up a notch.

Through the expansion of their Extend Partner Program, Endeca hopes customers will find it easier to integrate text analytics with said platform. On board with their endeavor is a name our readership might me more familiar with: Nstein.

Do you want reach a wider audience in a search engine friendly capacity or increase revenue through paid subscriptions and advertising? Do you want to improve editorial efficiency with easy access to archives? If so, take a look at Pressmart’s new pay-as-you-go, hosted Web CMS product ePortal.

Bridgeline's (news, site) updated its business suite yet again. SaaS-based iAPPS 2.8 focuses primarily on bettering search engine optimization (SEO) and social networking capabilities within iAPPS Content Manager, Bridgeline's Web CMS software. Version 2.8 brings to the table enhancements such as URL redirection, automatic XML sitemap creation, blog management, and CAPTCHA.

James Dimick, a Web developer at WordPress (news, site), says, "When it comes to Search Engine Optimization, there are a slew of options out there. Some good and some not so good."

We're inclined to agree. Thankfully, Dimick's got your back. His recent list of what he feels is the cream of the crop when it comes to SEO plugins for WordPress is, as far as we can tell, pretty thorough. Here's his top 5, which range from full packages to simple solutions:

This one is dedicated to all the copywriters, journalists and SEO practitioners out there.

Ecordia (formerly known as Lead Maverick) has just offered up a new application designed for predictive content analysis. The tool provides writers with SEO verification capabilities prior to publishing on search engines.

EPiServer (news, site), on its ongoing quest in "the new era of the Engaged Web," has news for marketers, who are looking to deliver dynamic, personalized, optimized and measurable web experiences.

EPiServer Marketing Arena is a new product designed to do just that, and then some.

How many web managers spend a big chunk of their day managing the quality and compliance aspects of their company's website? Probably too many. If your website is built using SDL Tridion (news, site) web content management, then you should be happy to hear this. They have just released a new tool to help you manage this aspect of your website: SafeGuard.

As many a blog entry will reiterate, as of late, there’s been a good amount of buzz around the launch of Microsoft’s new Bing search engine.

Moreover, there’s been a decent amount of speculation on what the growing popularity of Bing -- along with their recent agreement with Yahoo -- will mean in regards to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) practices.  As with any buzz in the online world, many marketing blogs, including Forrester, began to postulate what effect Bing will have on SEO, even before it officially launched.

Some people say that system X is better than system Y for search engine optimization (SEO) purposes. This may be true to some degree. But I've never seen a serious Web CMS project that expected to use the software without any configuration or modifications. This simply never happens.

What we see with Drupal (news, site) is that out of the box, so to speak, it's not great in terms of SEO. However, with the addition of a few contributed modules and after a some simple configurations are made, Drupal will stand alongside or even in front of the majority of web content management systems. Here's what you need to know to achieve this.