1 year Drupal Free Anniversary

A year ago I decided to give Wordpress a try to see if it made a better CMS platform. Since then, I've reworked all of my Drupal sites to run on Wordpress. Today is the first day I've looked back on it. Drupal is a powerful platform, but it is clunky, kind of slow, and it was less than user friendly to customize.

If you're having trouble picking a CMS, try setting up a Wordpress site. It is amazingly easy, easily modified, and a snap to maintain.

Site Conversion from Drupal to Wordpress

I've found that my Chopper Parts shopping site really wasn't good for Google. Drupal is a great content management system, but I could not get subpages to come up in the search results and that menu items were the search keywords that came up. Visitors that were looking for Bobber motorcycles were landing on just about any other page in the site because, the word was a menu item and appeared on every page. I've reworked the theme twice and made it compliant, but to no avail. I've spent the last week switching the site to a Wordpress blog, converted to a Content Management System (CMS). In the three days since switching Chopper Parts and Motorcycles to Wordpress, my traffic has increased 500%. I'll miss the Drupal site. If you need an enterprise-wide website / blog that employees can post information for internal or external purposes, go with Drupal. The security permissions for various levels of access are robust. If you maintain a site by yourself, go with something like Wordpress. The learning curve is much shorter.

What's the deal with Squidoo?

Squidoo is a service that allows you to create a single web page (which they call a Lens) on almost any topic. Creating these pages is supposed to help you get traffic to your websites. I have yet to see any more than one or two visits a month at my website as a result of creating a dozen lenses. What's the deal with the traffic from Squidoo?

Does Google spike pages from Squidoo? Do people visit a lens, but skip clicking through to the related site? Does anyone have any tips or thoughts?

Here are my lens in case you want to take a look and give me some suggestions:

Squidoo Bookmarks

• Buell Firebolt XB12R


• Buell Lightning XB12S


• Purple Heart Trike - A Tribute to U.S. Veterans


• Free $75 in PPC Advertising On Microsoft Live, MSN, and Other Search Engines


• Vintage Harley Davidson Shirts


• OCC Chopper Auction


• Windows Live Toolbar - Free Download from Microsoft


• Buell 1125R


• Ebay Affiliate Software - Make Money Online


• Learning from Da Vinci


• Buell Motorcycles


• DVD Rentals