On What Publishing Platform Is This Website Ran?

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Hi

I was wondering if anyone here can tell me on which platform this site is ran, because it's quite unique and also includes user comments on all article pages. It doesn't look like wordpress though.

If anyone can tell me I'd appreciate it:

http://www.homeremediesweb.com

Is it custom coded?

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Reinhardt
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
    It may not even be using a CMS. Looks like it could be a custom PHP job.

    I'd be surprised if it is a CMS. All the pages are at the root level of the site. There are two different categories listed, but the pages in those categories aren't in their own directories. Everything is at the root. To me, that suggests it's a site manually put together.
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    • Profile picture of the author Spinethetic
      Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert View Post

      It may not even be using a CMS. Looks like it could be a custom PHP job.

      I'd be surprised if it is a CMS. All the pages are at the root level of the site. There are two different categories listed, but the pages in those categories aren't in their own directories. Everything is at the root. To me, that suggests it's a site manually put together.
      There is PHP and .HTACCESS programming where you can actually have your pages catagorized into a hierarchy but still use root level links, I think some Joomla mods use this feature. The main reason webmasters to this is to make their pages easier to remember/write down and also if you have a url that lookes like /topics/seo/index.php?storyid=1497 these dynamic urls are not spidered by any search engines other than Google, so hence with a little simple PHP and .HTACCESS coding you can have that same page be /topic-seo-1497.php or whatever you choose; using this method ensures that your pages will be spidered into Yahoo, MSN, Ask, Aol etc ... etc.

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      • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
        Originally Posted by Spinethetic View Post

        The main reason webmasters to this is to make their pages easier to remember/write down and also if you have a url that lookes like /topics/seo/index.php?storyid=1497 these dynamic urls are not spidered by any search engines other than Google, so hence with a little simple PHP and .HTACCESS coding you can have that same page be /topic-seo-1497.php or whatever you choose; using this method ensures that your pages will be spidered into Yahoo, MSN, Ask, Aol etc ... etc.
        I have a site with dynamic URLs like that, and its pages are in Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask and AOL, including some listings on page one in all of those search engines.
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        • Profile picture of the author Spinethetic
          Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert View Post

          I have a site with dynamic URLs like that, and its pages are in Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask and AOL, including some listings on page one in all of those search engines.
          I should rephrase that, dynamic URLs are indexed by all search engines, but Static URLs are typically ranked better in search engine results pages, and they are indexed more quickly than dynamic URLs.

          A search engine wants to only list pages its index that are unique. Search engines decide to combat this issue by cutting off the URLs after a specific number of variable strings (e.g.: ? & =).

          somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php?threadid=12345&sort=date
          somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php?threadid=67890&sort=date
          somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php?threadid=13579&sort=date

          All three of these URLs point to three different pages. But if the search engine purges the information after the first offending character, the question mark (?), now all three pages look the same:

          somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php
          somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php
          somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php

          Now, you don't have unique pages, and consequently, the duplicate URLs won't be indexed.
          Another issue is that dynamic pages generally do not have any keywords in the URL. It is very important to have keyword rich URLs. Highly relevant keywords should appear in the domain name or the page URL. This became clear in a recent study on how the top three search engines, Google, Yahoo, and MSN, rank websites.

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          • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
            Originally Posted by Spinethetic View Post

            I should rephrase that, dynamic URLs are indexed by all search engines, but Static URLs are typically ranked better in search engine results pages, and they are indexed more quickly than dynamic URLs.
            Maybe it's typical, but I do have pages ranked at #1 for their keyword, and they are dynamic.

            A search engine wants to only list pages its index that are unique. Search engines decide to combat this issue by cutting off the URLs after a specific number of variable strings (e.g.: ? & =).

            somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php?threadid=12345&sort=date
            somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php?threadid=67890&sort=date
            somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php?threadid=13579&sort=date

            All three of these URLs point to three different pages. But if the search engine purges the information after the first offending character, the question mark (?), now all three pages look the same:

            somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php
            somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php
            somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php

            Now, you don't have unique pages, and consequently, the duplicate URLs won't be indexed.
            That's if they cut off all variables. My dynamic sites generally use a single variable, and I haven't seen that getting cut off by the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask and AOL).

            Another issue is that dynamic pages generally do not have any keywords in the URL. It is very important to have keyword rich URLs. Highly relevant keywords should appear in the domain name or the page URL. This became clear in a recent study on how the top three search engines, Google, Yahoo, and MSN, rank websites.
            My dynamic URLs use keywords as the variable name, not a number.

            Before I started using the particular system I use now, I had checked into it on another marketing forum (this was before I had heard of or joined WF). The problem search engines seemed to have was indexing long dynamic URLs, or URLs containing session IDs.

            For example, a search engine might come across this:

            somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php?threadid=12345&sort=date&session=54321
            somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php?threadid=12345&sort=date&session=54322
            somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php?threadid=12345&sort=date&session=54323

            The problem here is that all three pages are the same, but may look to be different to the search engine because of the varying session IDs. Thus, you could be hit with a duplicate content penalty. Or, the search engines may not fully index your site, because the varying sessions IDs would give the appearance of having more pages than there actually are.

            The solution to this was having a sitemap that listed all the URLs without session IDs, so that the search engines could find them without getting trapped by varying session IDs.

            If you have something like this:

            somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php?threadid=12345&sort=date
            somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php?threadid=12346&sort=date
            somesitesDOTcom/forums/thread.php?threadid=12347&sort=date

            I don't know that that will cause a particular problem either, so long as the content displayed on each page is significantly different. If the content is different, such as is the case with articles (typically), the search engines shouldn't have much of a problem sorting it out.

            However, there could be an issue with multiple variables in an URL as well as an issue with pages that are too similar that the search engine has difficulty differentiating them. In those cases, I think they may run into problems, and they may even begin to strip the variables down.

            If you use a simplified dynamic structure that's not terribly complicated, I don't think there is much of an issue with that, based on my experience. Most of my dynamic sites use a single variable, and I don't think I've had a site with more than two or three variables. I haven't had any problems with getting indexed with any of those sites.

            So, I just don't believe that dynamic URLs, with the exceptions I've listed, have a significant impact, so long as your site is easily navigated. In fact, I have a site that held page one positions for a long time, but has now dropped to pages 4, 5 and 6. It has static pages, keyword-rich URLs. And, it is getting outranked by lower quality sites, some of which have dynamic URLs that are not keyword-rich at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author RGallowitz
    Thanks Dan

    I thought it might be a software of something.

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    Reinhardt
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  • Profile picture of the author durango95
    The forum software is vBulletin - costs $180.
    Looks like a customised template, and possibly further customisations here & there.

    phpBB is an open source (free) alternative for forum software.
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    • Profile picture of the author sylviad
      Well, I really don't know much about this stuff but here's my 2 cents:

      It looks like it's built using style sheets and HTML.

      I use FrontPage to build my sites, which uses style sheets for certain things like borders.

      I don't see anything in the source code to indicate anything more than html coding.

      But ... maybe you're talking about something totally different. Just thought I'd try and help.

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  • Profile picture of the author ehicks727
    A previous poster is correct.. it's just VBulletin.... albeit, a slightly custom CSS file and probably a few plugins. But you can set up a forum similar to this in minutes if you purchase and install VBulletin.
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  • Profile picture of the author willyboy104
    Yeah seems like a custom PHP job. Takes me back to my old PHP custom HTML website that I had running, ah the time it took to write/upload/edit/submit a new article it makes me cry just thinking about it. Then I found Wordpress
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonl70
    you could easily do that with wordpress...

    edit: I am referring to setting up a site like the OP linked to..
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