Is a content manager a "must have"?

[leedsfan]

Originally Posted by Evil Chris

Used to be that everyone updated their websites (paysites) the old fashioned way by hand. Just adding more pages and more content via FTP.

How many of you still do it that way? Is it still a viable way to update paysites or is a content manager software simply a must to save time?

We use a combo of in house CMS scripts and hand driven, and it's fine for the 7 sites we have in our aff proggie but it is cumbersome for SEO submissions. If you really want to keep your sites ranked high in SERPS you need a CMS that's quick and easy to switch site content (read: keywords)depending in which direction google's wind is blowing on any given day.

my 2cents

[S0laris]

Hmmm

I think a CMS is very important, but the only draw back with them is the amount of setup, and if you have multiple sites, then they all look the same because of the effort in customizing it.

Our CMS is all in house and each site has its own script that is unique to prevent the "canned" look. It is easier to do this then redo all the customizations for a new site from a 3rd party CMS.

[Terrence]

Very informative thread I will be contacting the apropriate comapny for support with my content managment


Terrence