Joomla or Wordpress for SEO

Perfect Ring

Hi,
Just wondering if anyone has an opinion on which is better from a SEO perspective.
I'm crating a new website and wondering to use Joomla or Wordpress. Currently have an ASP.net site but it is very complicated and does not seem to have the same functionality and updated Joomla or Wordpress have.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

IRE60

you can adapt either for the purposes - one really doesn't have the edge on the other as you can set them up to spit exactly the same to a spider.

Personally, and I use both, i tip in favor of Joomla not form an seo point, just from a usability and functional point.

Ask someone else, they'll give you a different answer!

C

The Apprentice

IRE60 wrote: »

you can adapt either for the purposes - one really doesn't have the edge on the other as you can set them up to spit exactly the same to a spider.

Personally, and I use both, i tip in favor of Joomla not form an seo point, just from a usability and functional point.

Ask someone else, they'll give you a different answer!

C

Ya i would sit on the worpress fence ^^ for exactly the same reasons - its my baby daddy, and will probably continue to use it unless some drastic happens it in the near future.

Meh..

Perfect Ring

Thanks guys, much appreciated.
Think an open source package is a better option and easier to get prices for work at a later date.
Had a bespoke system in the past as was so expensive to make minor amendments.

IRE60

Open source all the way - its really competitive, so many people versed in it.

Trojan

There's more available for WordPress, bigger developer community, so I go that way. Joomla and Drupal both fairly decent though, but orders of magnitude less popular now.

3sixty

Go with wordpress.

link8r

echo WordPress, Joomla is a nightmare

akagaby

IRE60 wrote: »

you can adapt either for the purposes - one really doesn't have the edge on the other as you can set them up to spit exactly the same to a spider.

Personally, and I use both, i tip in favor of Joomla not form an seo point, just from a usability and functional point.

Ask someone else, they'll give you a different answer!

C

I agrre

soirish

Wordpress is simple, Joomla is functional and Drupal is comprehensive. Pick your own.

Trojan

soirish wrote: »

Wordpress is simple, Joomla is functional and Drupal is comprehensive. Pick your own.

I don't agree with that particular choice of wording.

WordPress is user friendly, but "simple" doesn't really describe the power under the hood. It's also got more people using it than every other system - put together.

Drupal is arguably better architectured in the back end, but it's not very user friendly at all.

akagaby

Best CMS is probably the one you most familiar with. Joomla and WP are the best out there in my opinion. None of them suitable for top-of-the range sites, but good enough for 95% of websites out there

cormee

Never heard him comment on Joomla, but according to Matt Cutts, WordPress has "80-90% of the mechanics of SEO built in." He also uses Wordpress for his own blog, instead of Google's own Blogspot, so that has to say something.

But akagaby is also (partially) correct - best CMS is probably the one you're most familiar with.

I say partially because I disagree that WordPress isn't suitable for top-of-the-range sites, however that's for another thread.

IRE60

Given that you can have your end product displayed in practically the same way under Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, ModX - it's true, go with what you're comfortable with.