Advantages & disadvantages of Joomla as CMS for SEO Hosting

Joomla is one of the most used freely availible CMS. It’s often the preferred choice for those with low technical skills or knowledge to manage complex websites. With Joomla, you can get started quick and have a site built in just a day or two. Joomla itself was created in 2005 out of a project called opensourcematters.org. Within its first year of release, it was downloaded over 2.5 million times.

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Advantages with Joomla

+Easy for average people to learn.
+FREE to use under open source.
+Simple to maintain and upgrade.
+Easy to make it Search Engine Friendly.
+Many plugins, over 5000.

Possible disadvantages with Joomla

-Less security then Drupal and WordPress.
-Harder to do a custom-made site
-Not as flexible to change layout as some other CMS.
-Some claim it has a non-intuitive admin interface
-Less free templates too choose from then other content management systems.

Why Joomla?

It’s quick and easy to add new features with the large number of extensions availible, giving you photo galleries, forums, statistics etc.

2 major websites using Joomla

• Linux.com
• Gsas.harvard.edu/

Want too learn more? Try a demo of a Jomla.

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