I've recently created a new site (http://www.moralbliss.com) as a semi-serious project, but also to try and learn about just how "Real World" friendly DotNetNuke was in general. My first goal, was to build speed into it, which was fairly easy to do, but then I wanted to see how well it could be SEO'd. I used a sitemap builder, created a robots.txt file and submitted it to google. I continued to write my articles, and after a couple of days did some searches for the titles. Some of the titles I made deliberately co-incide with famous phrases such as the James Blunt song "Goodbye my lover". I didn't really expect google to do too much with that, because it would have a pretty low pagerank I figured. But then I searched for some of my more obscure titles, and to my surprise, within just 2 or 3 days, they were appearing on the first or at worst, second page on google. Doing a search for "Lecturers Daughter" even brings back my site as the first result in google. Now many people might put this down to the power of google, and in some respects it is, however I was running my site using the core blogging module, and did the same tests, and I was lucky if google picked up my articles at all. I must say that the articles module really is a great way to ensure that you have SEO friendly content being published to your site. |