CMS or by Hand

[Teaser]

Ok, I'm starting a new review site. I've been told to do it using a cms system.. IE: wordpress or a scripted source.

I guess I'm old school, I am still feeling the need to hand code each page with love and sweat. Do you think either one is better for seo?

I am hoping my hardwork and hand coded pages will play bigger over a cms or wordpress created review site...

thoughts?

[Bec]

I've read that handcoding still reaps some benefits for SE positioning, but I do love the speed and ease of using a program like Wordpress. I'm also seeing good SE traffic from my blogs that use it. It would be interesting if we could setup two nearly identical sites, with the same traffic, same trades, etc , one done by hand and the other a cms and see where they show up in the SE's.

[Lee]

If you have a good CMS in place that has customizable templates, the search engines wont be able to tell whether the pages have been script generated or hand coded.

Regards,

Lee

[Lace]

If you have a good CMS in place that has customizable templates, the search engines wont be able to tell whether the pages have been script generated or hand coded.

Regards,

Lee

Exactly.

And the time it would take you to do to that by hand is crazy.

I worked with a review site some time ago that was basically updated by hand and it surely was not fun by any means and from traffic, it was no different then one running a cms.

[Itchy]

Id get Konrads paysitecms
That's the script I had you doing reviews for me a whileeeeeee back

:specs:

[Teaser]

I've read that handcoding still reaps some benefits for SE positioning, but I do love the speed and ease of using a program like Wordpress. I'm also seeing good SE traffic from my blogs that use it. It would be interesting if we could setup two nearly identical sites, with the same traffic, same trades, etc , one done by hand and the other a cms and see where they show up in the SE's.

Agreed! That would be an interesting test to be sure

[Teaser]

Exactly.

And the time it would take you to do to that by hand is crazy.

It's true I'm crazy
LOL its a test project so I don't mind a bit of sweat :bunnypancake:

In a few months I'll let you know if it was worth it SEO wise

[Bec]

Id get Konrads paysitecms
That's the script I had you doing reviews for me a whileeeeeee back

:specs:

Have a link handy for the script?

[gaybucks_chip]

Have a link handy for the script?

it's thepaysitecms.com , but don't bother... it's apparently being marketed by someone else now, but it's that totally outrageously priced thing that we had discussed in this thread

http://forums.gaywidewebmasters.com/...ad.php?t=24380

Although... to their credit, even though they argued that the then-$30,000 price was "very reasonable" they have now dropped it down to a still-outrageous $15,000.

[HunkyLuke]

why do it by hand when there are tons of scripts that do all the behind-the-scenes stuff for you automatically? Save time and automate, then spend that time on something productive (or even just relaxing)!