Is it reasonable to not give an SEO access to our CMS?

[BlueprintMarketing]

you can use whatever CMS or code you want on this part.

How to keep your hosting and create a staging environment NON WordPress as well

 

you can use it on a server as bespoke as you please. (You must have root access)

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Establishing+Staging+Server+Environments+for+JIRA

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3844369/git-production-staging-server-workflow

I hope this will be more helpful.

all the best,

Tom

[JVRudnick]

Exact same thing has happened to us in the past too....

One of our clients is a major Canuck city's Economic Development dept whose mandate is to get new businesses and investors to come to their city to invest and open new businesses. At first, we too were denied access to anything - we had to create long Word .docs with full directions and screenshots of what to do and where to do it. However, after 5 renewals over the past 5 years, we were given full access to their site via both their CMS and ftp too...

Proving I'd suspect that trust needs to be "earned" - not given freely is how I'd see it...

Oh in another case another SEO client - a major Canuck University has not been able to give that same earned trust access as their site includes credit card info - buried deep and encrypted - but PCI specs say that they should limit access....so again we do the full Word .doc blueprints for their site....