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A late thanks to our January sponsors

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By Bryan - Posted on 31 January 2010

Here at CMS Report we usually like to give thanks to our sponsors once a month. This thank you is barely making it out the door before the month of January is over. Sponsorship helps us pay for the bills from our host provider, internet service provider, and any software or hardware needed to support this site. CMS Report provides great content on a wide variety of CMS related topics. Our goal has always been to invest time not to market Web applications but instead speak on our passion for content management.

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, you can purchase banner space at this site either through Google's ad services or through BuySellAds. For those times that we have sold out on our banner space, BuySellAds does offer sponsors the ability to put themselves on a waiting list to advertise on our site. We've been holding the price of sponsoring CMS Report below market value so at times you might find the waiting a little long.

CMS Report wants to thank our current sponsors for their support.

Acquia - Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system. With over two million downloads since inception, Drupal is used by web developers worldwide to build sophisticated community websites.

Open Source Training - Open Source Training provides training across North America on Joomla!, Drupal, and WordPress. They have worked with Fortune 500 companies, state and local government, plus universities and colleges.

CMS Market - CMS Market is a directory for Joomla extensions as well as Mambo, Drupal modules and Wordpress themes.

CMS themer - CMS themer is a professional theming service catered to designers, developers and web companies who do not have the time or expertise to theme a CMS based on an existing website or design.

IHost.Net - IHost offers a number of web hosting services built on the DotNetNuke. iHost.Net's has serviced over 100,000 customers since 1996.

Sitecore - Sitecore provides web content management (CMS) and portal software for organizations to create compelling website experiences.

Strong Sponsorship in December for CMS Report

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By Bryan - Posted on 17 December 2009

For three months in a row, CMS Report has sold out all of its banner space reserved for our sponsors. Sponsorship helps us pay for the bills from our host provider, internet service provider, and any software or hardware needed to support this site. CMS Report provides great content on a wide variety of CMS related topics. Our goal has always been to invest time not to market Web applications but instead speak on our passion for content management. If you like what you see here at CMS Report give thanks to our December sponsors for helping us to make all this happen.

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, you can purchase banner space at this site either through Google's ad services or through BuySellAds. For those times that we have sold out on our banner space, BuySellAds does offer the sponsors the ability to put themselves on a waiting list to advertise on our site.

CMS Report wants to thank our current sponsors for their support.

Acquia - Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system. With over two million downloads since inception, Drupal is used by web developers worldwide to build sophisticated community websites.

Open Source Training - Open Source Training provides training across North America on Joomla!, Drupal, and WordPress. They have worked with Fortune 500 companies, state and local government, plus universities and colleges.

CMS Market - CMS Market is a directory for Joomla extensions as well as Mambo, Drupal modules and Wordpress themes.

CMS themer - CMS themer is a professional theming service catered to designers, developers and web companies who do not have the time or expertise to theme a CMS based on an existing website or design.

IHost.Net - IHost offers a number of web hosting services built on the DotNetNuke. iHost.Net's has serviced over 100,000 customers since 1996.

Sitecore - Sitecore provides web content management (CMS) and portal software for organizations to create compelling website experiences.

CMS Report also wants to thank these enthusiastic Google Adsense advertisers.

Ektron -  Ektron provides a complete platform with all of the functionality necessary to create, deploy, and manage your Web site.

pTools - pTools Enterprise Web Content Management Software delivers powerful intranet, extranet and Internet solutions for critical business initiatives.

Alterarian - Alterian ContentManager. Alterian’s vision is changing the face of marketing from mass marketing to engagement with the individual and Web Content Management is a strategic part of delivering that for their customers.

I do not like the word Smart

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By Bryan - Posted on 17 November 2009

I was reading an article this morning regarding the use of ARM-based chips in a number of devices including "smartbooks". It appears the industry would like you to now call those smaller and less powerful laptop computers a smartbook instead of netbook.

To describe these devices as a smartbook is idiotic marketing for two reasons. First, "netbook" is a term that has been around for two years and most people today recognize the term being applied to smaller sized notebooks. When you hear the question, "What is a smartbook?" it seems very natural to just answer by replying, "a smartbook is a netbook". Secondly, I have to say it's very moronic (worse than ironic) to call a dumbed-down notebook a smartbook. At least when you say "smartphone" it is in reference to increased functionality over the traditional mobile phone and not less functionality.

I do not like the word "smart" being attached to devices and applications that are far from actually being intelligent on their own. Is marketing that insecure in the devices they're selling that they need to attach the word "smart" to cover up their own lack of intelligence? I have a theory that any time we attach the word "smart" to software or devices it is inviting doom into our lives.

Just good business to sponsor CMS Report

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By Bryan - Posted on 16 November 2009

I usually wait until the weekend to post the monthly list of companies and organizations sponsoring CMSReport.com. At the start of the business week, I know many of you would rather talk about content management system and not marketing. However, sponsoring a CMS niche site such as CMS Report is good business so we felt compelled to publish the sponsorship on a Monday.

For the second month in a row, CMS Report has sold-out on all the banner space reserved for our sponsors. I believe there are three reasons, we have seen increased revenue from advertisement at this site:

  • Earlier in the year we switched most of the managment of our banner space to BuySellAds. The quality and reliability provided by this ad service has been unbelievable. We give two thumbs up for BuySellAds.
  • It's the economy people. The world economy is really starting to pick up and  companies are now preparing to welcome and support returning customers through their refreshed Websites. CMS providers know that this is a competitive market and know to get these companies' business, they have to get their name out their through marketing and sponsorship.
  • CMS Report provide great content on a wide variety of CMS related topics. Our goal has always been to invest time not to market Web applications but instead speak of our passion for content management.

Sponsorship helps us pay for the bills from our host provider, internet service provider, and any software or hardware needed to support CMSReport.com. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, you can purchase banner space at this site either through Google's ad services or through BuySellAds.

Google PageRank

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By Bryan - Posted on 16 October 2009

CMS Wire's Barb Mosher reported about a forum posting by a Google Employee explaining why PageRank has been dropped from the Google Webmaster Tools. Barb writes:

Do you constantly watch the Google toolbar in your browser to see if your Google PageRank has changed? Do you worry constantly about why your rank is less than that of a competitor? Well, there may not be any reason to worry any longer.

Google has dropped PageRank data from Webmaster Tools.

Google has for some time discussed that PageRank is a very small factor among many factors that they look at for placing a particular indexed page on a search results page. Dropping PageRank from the Webmaster Tools appears to be just one more step in moving PageRank away from everyone's attention.

We've been telling people for a long time that they shouldn't focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it's the most important metric for them to track, which is simply not true. We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it. :-)

I have observed that indeed PageRank doesn't matter for placement on Google's search pages. I've seen CMSReport.com's front page ranked from as low as "3" to as high as "7" over the years. Although the page rank has varied over time, the placement of my web pages on the search pages have stayed about the same. Relevancy of the page to the search terms being used seems to have a much greater impact on how well your site ranks with the search engine. Additional details on why Google doesn't see PageRank as a good measurement for a site can be found on one of their Webmaster FAQ.