CMS vs Wordpress for Content Driven Sites?

[grafx77]

I am wanting to start my first content oriented portal (topic not yet considered) and am curious to know which standard would be the best and easiest to use considering:
1. SEO
2. Ease of Article Publication (posting new content easily)
3. Organizing Content
4. Flexibility

I have considered blogs as a standard for some time now seeing that they provide quick SE results and allow administrators to post articles on the fly with adsense and affiliate links intertwined. They also provide RSS syndication as a capability as well. I currently use Wordpress for one of my smaller websites to help me generate more natural traffic, so I am up-to-date on how to operate and post new wordpress blogs.

On the other hand, I have yet to work with any CMS applications yet, but do believe that I can figure out my way around the application after a few days or so. The only reason why I am considering CMS is because most of the larger to medium sized content portals I find on the internet are built around some sort of CMS or php based application. This brings me to back to my main question.

Does CMS or other related applications have any true underlying value over Blogs when publishing content sites?

Any information on this would be truly helpful.
John

[aftab]

Hi John,

Having read your post I see you have not got a reply to your question.

I am in the same situation that you were in. Would you be kind enough to share as to what you are finally going with CMS or Wordpress and why?

Thanks.

Aftab.

[sellportal]

A blog and a cms built site are 2 completely different critters!

A blog is more or less set up, post content and off we go. Even with a bunch of plugins and a couple of password protected directories a blog is a breeze to handle work wise.

But, it's very one dimensional if you can understand what I mean. You have your front page + categories and old posts. And that's more or less it (one can do some kind of hybrid site of course to change this).

A CMS site is a quite complex beast with a lot of stuff to setup and manage. Most people run them as membership sites with members of different levels, downloads, posts, forums, news and many other special content types. All with their own areas, setups and handling.

A well done CMS site qill demand a lot more time to handle, but you can get to a point where your site will look like a multi million $ company site.

So what is your purpose?

To hand over information in a scheduled manner about one or more topics all related.

or is it to deliver information, special downloads, allowing people to do reviews, vote on stuff, interact inside the site, all with their own accounts and setting?

My advice would be to setup a CMS site to test it out, and maybe start a blog meanwhile to things going. You can always send people from the blog to the CMS site.

And you could even run the blog on a domain as the main site, test the CMS site in a directory and if it works well redirect the frontpage or even reinstall the CMS site as the root site!

If you have a hosting with CPanel and fantastico you already have a one or two click installation of several of the most well known CMS systems online today.

Kenth

[mrLenin]

Very inportant thing is friendly CMS. It helps you with rating and traffic to your site.