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SEO Blogs ....argghhhh

Over the last few days, I've tested out several flatfile blogs, hopefully to manage my content.

I've tried out blosxom (Perl-based), Pivot, and some CMS programs like PHP-CMS, and Limbo.

I learned the basics of all of these and all of them were great for blogging or managing content.

I also got some good details from this site:
http://www.asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm

The problem I'm faced with is SEO (Search Engine Optimization). I couldn't change the URL's or Metadata to be SEO URL friendly for IIS. I noticed there were some modifications that could be done for Apache or UNIX..but I'm stuck with Windows IIS for now.

I also checked out some other ones like Moveabletype and Wordpress which had some limited SEO modifications, but needed a database like MYSQL.

The big problem I see with many of these CMS or Blog software with Search Engine Friendly URL's is that they ownly cover a small portion of optimization.

Some have metatags, but globally for the entire site. That's not much help. Some have SEF URL's, but their not customizable.

I'm looking for something that can handle flatfiles and handle independent page customizations.

I guess that's too techie, but if I'm publishing SE optimized content, it has to be done the right way.

So I'll stick to Blogger and my traditional website SEO templates for now until some other solutions come out with a wider user base.

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