February Update to Search Engine Optimization Test

As reported in earlier posts (launch post and first update) we're running a test comparing the search engine optimization capabilites of Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress. 

We created three sites, Jabalpur.net.in (Wordpress) Amritsar.net.in (Drupal) and Vadodara.net.in (Joomla). Each website was created with a similar amount of content, similar Overture results and a similar domain name.

Within two weeks the Wordpress site was so far ahead that it looked as if they competition was over. Slowly however, Drupal and Joomla have recovered until they now lead the pack. The Joomla site is now #1 for 6 of its 9 keywords in Yahoo India and the Drupal site has two top-10 rankings in every search engine we measure except for Yahoo.

All of this makes me wonder - can and do search engines distinguish between different forms of software? Does Google penalize a blog (Wordpress) site if it is not updated in two months, whereas it doesn't expect such frequent updates from a CMS (Drupal and Joomla)?

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Your Comments (4)

Amy Stephen

February 22, 2007

Whoa! That's interesting. But, it isn't Google that is downgrading WP, it's Yahoo. If you only look at Google, it's still giving the nod to WP. Or, am I missing something.

Steve Burge

February 22, 2007

Hi Amy

You're right, WP took a slight bump in Google but it was Yahoo that really took to Google.

On a quick side note, there was an interesting story on Joomla.org: http://dev.joomla.org/content/view/2323/72/

This guy is entering Joomla in an SEO competition:

Moslemen M. Macarambon Jr. entry is powered by Joomla! CMS and OpenSEF which he is proud that the only one using Joomla! and will test Joomla! pit against blogging software i.e. WordPress which is primary choice of other contestant. They say WordPress and other blogging software is more Search Engine Friendly (SEF).

William The Search Engine Optimisation Guru

April 21, 2008

Wow! That's interesting. If you only look at Google, it's still giving the nod to WP. Or, am I missing something. Alledia - the Joomla SEO Club and Book is very good search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Dirty Blue Widgets

November 13, 2008

I hadn't realized that the other platforms were gaining such ground.
Wordpress really has dogs on its heels.