Recently I redesigned my web page (photo gallery) and move it from regular HTML to PostNuke CMS. The only reason for this was, that the old page has taken ma a lot of time to publish new content and it hasn't had all the features that I needed. I must say that the old page was graphically very well designed and fast. Now I use PN CMS so I can update content very fast, but the page is kinda slow and it is not looking great (it is difficult to make a theme for PN CMS).
The problem I have is next:
My old site had 150 – 200 unique visitors per day, but now after only 2 months of using PN CMS the number of unique visitors dropped to 60 per day. I have 60 registered members, but they are not active (not sending news, not suggesting links, not participate in forums). I receive up to 3 galleries per week.
What are you suggesting me to do, to get more unique visitors and especially haw can I made them to be more active?
nerdbyte posted this at 06:15 — 25th April 2003.
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I had the exact same problem using postnuke. I had 400 uniques a day adn it dropped down to about 40. Search engines can't parse the urls that content management systems make. So I dropped Postnuke and used php include for my links and i did that about 2 weeks ago and already my traffic is doubling each week. Content management systems are good when you haev alot to manage but it will bring down your site traffic..
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BrandBlast posted this at 18:48 — 25th April 2003.
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I agree with nerd, try to stay away from CMS unless they are specifically built to be search engine friendly, there are a few out there but they are expensive, have you tried using templates, or maybe includes to help manage the site?
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justjeni posted this at 22:52 — 26th April 2003.
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OH, I feel SO stupid, but don't learn if I don't ask, so may I ask what CMS is? Tx!
BrandBlast posted this at 00:12 — 27th April 2003.
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jeni,
It stands for Content Management System. We all didn't know what CMS was at one point so don't feel dumb.
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Suzanne posted this at 16:24 — 27th April 2003.
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That's not entirely true, actually. Google handles query lines just fine. What may be influencing things is the lack of unique meta information, and the accordingly generic template surrounding the content.
Additionally, many content management systems do not produce human friendly urls (see the archives at alistapart.com for url mapping to solve this problem), which would make things more difficult for the users to pass on the urls, to find the information, et cetera.
As with most things, you need to balance the needs of the developer with the needs of the user, and find some balance point.
It's wrong to just say that search engines can't follow the urls, though. That's just not the case. There are too many other factors not being taken into consideration.
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andy206uk posted this at 18:40 — 27th April 2003.
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Thats strange... i thought google didnt use meta tags?
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Suzanne posted this at 18:45 — 27th April 2003.
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Sorry, blending information together -- title, meta elements, title, alt attributes, actual text content. They are all used in various combinations by search engines to set relevance. Many CMSs fail to include these as unique.
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