SEO question

heinrich

Hi @mad
I have only played with your CMS for 15 minutes and by far the simplest and fastest I have tested 🙂
My question may be simple to most, however I do not have enough knowledge about the black box science of SEO to compare platforms so I am reaching out to you… here goes …

How does an elegant platform like yours compare to the large bloated platforms like wordpress in SEO management, it seems most platforms have “plugins” that manage meta tags and “more”. My lamen question is… are there any disadvantages to using flat file CMS like yours vs larger platforms for SEO purposes?

Again I love your work, just confused on this subject and how it is managed in general 😄

mad

heinrich Hi there! Thank you! 😊 In my opinion, it is important to provide a sitemap.xml file for search engines like Google. Automad automatically creates such a file. You don’t have to do anything manually there. Meta tags nowadays are not that important anymore since the whole content of a page is analysed by modern engines. In Automad this is solved on the template level. The included themes and templates create all needed tags for SEO as well as Open Graph tags for Twitter or Facebook out of the box. So also regarding tags, you don’t need to do anything additional.

I hope that helps a bit.

heinrich

Thank you @mad, makes sense…. too much talk around SEO without getting round to the facts 😀

mad

heinrich 🙂