Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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.

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