What is the best SEO friendly CMS platform?

[EdStaton]

Would like to build some content sites and would appreciate some guidance on what you believe to be the most SEO friendly CMS platform.  I'm also hoping to find something that doesn't require much HTML and is pretty easy to jump into.

[RyanKent]

Based on your description I would recommend WordPress. It is the most popular CMS in the world, has a few good SEO plugins, and requires less knowledge to get going with then other software. As with any software, the more you know the more you can do with it.

I should also add WordPress is primarily blog software but you can do other things with it. Other CMS software such as Joomla and Drupal offers more functionality, but they are significantly more complex.

[EdStaton]

Thanks.  I always thought of WordPress is more of a blog platform.

Are there differemt types of WordPress platforms to work with?

[RyanKent]

You are fast! I had just edited my reply and I think you read it before I made the change.

There is wordpress.com where your site is hosted by wordpress, and wordpress.org where you host your own site. Wordpress is a blog platform and, as such, it meets the definition of a Content Management System.

Some sites have extended the functionality of the software far beyond blogs, but you are right. At it's core it is a blog platform.

[EdStaton]

Great.  Thanks.

[JasonCook]

Agree with Ryan - it sounds like Wordpress.org would be the right fit.  I've used that on some personal sites and I've worked with Drupal on larger corporate sites.  You would definitely need someone with intermediate, or higher, development skills to use a platform such as Drupal.

There are any number of plugins that you could use for Wordpress that will help manage key SEO fundamentals.  I've found All In One SEO to be a pretty decent Wordpress plugin, FWIW.  Good luck!

[firstconversion]

WP + Yoast's SEO plugin is full of win

[seohive-222720]

Totally Agree and Yoast have recently updated this plugin.

shiv