Comments on: Delivering content with popular platforms good for Google & good for you! http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/delivering-content-with-popular-platforms-good-for-google-good-for-you/2008/10/09/ SEO SEM and the world of search marketing Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:33:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jon Payne http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/delivering-content-with-popular-platforms-good-for-google-good-for-you/2008/10/09/#comment-65329 Jon Payne Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:55:33 +0000 http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/delivering-content-with-popular-platforms-good-for-google-good-for-you/2008/10/09/#comment-65329 I agree on both ends here Wil... except that I can think of instance or two where building your own system might make sense, but generally a popular platform is probably the way to go. My firm recently developed our own platform in-house simply b/c there was a critical feature that we needed that was not available in any existing app that we reviewed. Total development cost was somewhere just under $10k and its done in PHP and MySQL so I think we'll be okay as far as your issue #1 above. For issue #2, it produces regular webpages and does not currently push content via XML so we're probably missing out on something there... not having our content "pushed" to Google. Integrating XML feeds will be a main focus of version 2.0. That said, I've also started to look at the wealth of plugins and ways to customize Wordpress for this and future needs. The options are many. I agree on both ends here Wil… except that I can think of instance or two where building your own system might make sense, but generally a popular platform is probably the way to go.

My firm recently developed our own platform in-house simply b/c there was a critical feature that we needed that was not available in any existing app that we reviewed. Total development cost was somewhere just under $10k and its done in PHP and MySQL so I think we’ll be okay as far as your issue #1 above. For issue #2, it produces regular webpages and does not currently push content via XML so we’re probably missing out on something there… not having our content “pushed” to Google. Integrating XML feeds will be a main focus of version 2.0. That said, I’ve also started to look at the wealth of plugins and ways to customize Wordpress for this and future needs. The options are many.

]]> By: Why Having Your Site Built From Scratch is Probably a Dumb Idea http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/delivering-content-with-popular-platforms-good-for-google-good-for-you/2008/10/09/#comment-65065 Why Having Your Site Built From Scratch is Probably a Dumb Idea Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:52:55 +0000 http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/delivering-content-with-popular-platforms-good-for-google-good-for-you/2008/10/09/#comment-65065 [...] I saw this post recently over on the SEO blog at Seer Interactive.  I had the good fortune of meeting Wil Reynolds at a recent industry event and continue to check out the tips and info that he posts on his blog and elsewhere.  Wil makes a couple of really good points in this posts where he says: Why do companies continue to not use off the shelf tools, to build their own CMS / Blog / Forum, I don’t know. [...] [...] I saw this post recently over on the SEO blog at Seer Interactive.  I had the good fortune of meeting Wil Reynolds at a recent industry event and continue to check out the tips and info that he posts on his blog and elsewhere.  Wil makes a couple of really good points in this posts where he says: Why do companies continue to not use off the shelf tools, to build their own CMS / Blog / Forum, I don’t know. [...]

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