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John is the Chief of Community Creation at Truffle Media. Truffle Media Networks provides Ag Media You Can Use, through high-quality, turnkey production and distribution of agriculture business-focused media series.

Do Search Engines Care If You Use Drupal?

Posted on April 26, 2011 by John Blue

How much do Content Management Systems (CMS), like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, play a part in search engine optimization (SEO)?   Certainly bad site design (not clean urls, bad content, poor use of domain names, etc) in a CMS like Drupal is going to affect SEO (great tools used in a bad way idea). But do content management systems themselves lend to better SEO over others, if all the other good practices are done? And, how would mixing systems (ex, WordPress or … Continue reading →

Why Use Drupal?

Posted on March 29, 2011 by John Blue

I recently ask “What is Drupal?” as a way to introduce Drupal. The next question that comes to mind is “Should I use Drupal?” This is a great question. Many times you see a technology and something about it prompts you to think about using it. In the case of Drupal you may have heard that some pretty mainstream websites are running on this open source content management system: Grammy.com, WhiteHouse.com, Symantec Connect, and the New York Observer, to name … Continue reading →

What is Drupal?

Posted on March 20, 2011 by John Blue

Are you looking at Drupal? Have you heard of Drupal but not sure what it can do for you? Is the Drupal icon just so cool that you want to be a part of this movement? I recommend these resources to get started learning more about Drupal: The Ultimate Guide To Drupal™ – A Step-By-Step Video Tutorial Training That Shows You Drupal-Conquering Shortcut Secrets… In Under 6 Hours, And Without Any Headaches! Video: Dries Buytaert, the creator of Drupal, collected … Continue reading →