Update! This post will tell you how to use WordPress and Joomla together for better SEO results. If you are looking for some ideas on how to choose between the two, you could read the Page How to choose between WordPress and Joomla!
If you look at these Opensource Content management systems, then people use them for Blogging and Building websites.
Joomla
Now Joomla with al its extensions is great for building a good solid website with all the features you want. And you can bring it to high rankings in the search eninges as well, if you start with the proper technical improvements.
Templates in Joomla make it easy to get a good layout for the site, and you can find lots of good free Joomla templates. For a good business website I suggest you look for a good commercial template based on a Table less design with external css files.
WordPress
For Blogging you cannot beat WordPress, especially if you do the right setup, making the permalinks work right the .htaccess file and set the options to /%postname%/. Creating posts and giving it the special keyword tags is really easy.
Templates for WordPress are also very easy to obtain and to implement. Besides that…Google loves WordPress Blogs
My advice?
Use them both!!
Setup your main site in Joomla! and start working on the content, create good quality content.
In a sub directory, or a subdomain, install WordPress and start blogging, using the keywords you also use for your website.
WordPress with its create SEF functions and categories will bring you traffic, this traffic reflects to your main domain.
And with the content on your main website, you work to keep your visitors captured and make them come back.
Yes, I know there is a great Component to integrate WordPress in Joomla from j-prosolution.com (Site is no longer available, but a great replacement can be Found on http://www.joomlify.com/) and I use it also on my website www.pathos-seo.com And if that is not enough, they even use it for the news via blogs on http://www.joomla.org/ !!
Still I like the separate installation better, because there are more features I can use for Search Engine Marketing and Viral marketing.
In my short experience with combining them that the combination of Joomla and WordPress are a killer combination for getting High Search Engine Ranking!
Joomla or WordPress, Which is Better? 20 items Compared
Every day more people find out how to easily manage their websites using Content Management Systems. Two well known CMS’s are Joomla and WordPress. Today, let’s compare them side by side and see who is truly “the best”
Comparing Joomla and WordPress
- End user experience – Tie
- Ease of upgrades – WordPress
- Editing content by end users – WordPress
- Design flexibility – Tie
- Pull in content from other sites – Joomla
- Version control, roll back – WordPress
- Backend navigation – WordPress
- Ease of installation – Joomla
- Size of community – WordPress
- Popularity – WordPress
- Active development – WordPress
- Schedule content to appear – Joomla
- Rotating content – Joomla
- Menus – Joomla
- Modules, Plugins, Extensions, Components – Joomla
- Multiple Authors – WordPress
- Search functions – WordPress
- Administration – WordPress
- Scalability – Draw
- SEO – WordPress
- Just Added! Community Energy – WordPress
- Just Added! Security – Joomla
- Just Added! Themes – WordPress
- Just Added! Documentation – WordPress
Winner aka For The Win (FTW)
- WordPress – 16
- Joomla – 9
From the Chat and Video
Giannii-8385 : To make either better you should insert Disqus. What about Tumblr?
ustreamer-60485 : leolaporte uses stickam. http://www.stickam.com/leolaporte
ohdoctah-264 : WP is the Google of Blogs so I can get extra traffic.
ohdoctah-264 : people search word press for random things and I can also get nice mobile plug ins with WP
ustreamer-96511 : moving my WordPress site to Joomla but it is easier to update, modify and expand
ustreamer-96511 : yes WordPress is easier to administer I have to agree
Adria: WordPress is a very approachable Content Managment System
Nbaisley: “WordPress is like the girl next door”
ohdoctah-7277 : i need the community lol i think thats the only reason im on joomla
ohdoctah-7277 : tumblr is coming.. its something to get into they are modeled after WP
Common functionality requests
Stop trying to do everything inside Joomla and WordPress. There are many ways to embed scripts and sites that already do these things very well right into your Joomla or WordPress install.
- quiz or survey
- calendars
- forms
The Numbers
Although this is in no way scientific, condting a search for these 3 Content Managment Systems reveals the overwhemling popularlity of WordPress:
Google Results 1 – 10 of about 285,000,000 for wordpress
Google Results 1 – 10 of about 117,000,000 for joomla
Google Results 1 – 10 of about 30,800,000 for drupal
What I like about WordPress vs Joomla
I think that the underlying message of the developers of WordPress, including Matt Mullenweg and Alex King, is that WordPress is for everyone. Everyone is welome. There are many passionate people out there working with WordPress and they continue the tradition of storytelling so it’s making WordPress a viral phenomenon.
Resources
Book – Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Joomla Developer’s Toolbox
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/05/joomla-developers-toolbox/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/09/15/wordpress-developers-toolbox/
Brian Gardner’s Revolution / Studiopress makes use of WordPress MU http://test.studiopress.com/
Joomla Extensions http://extensions.joomla.org/
WordPress Plugins http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
Official WordPress Showcase http://wordpress.org/showcase/
Official Joomla Showcase http://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=514
Unofficial Joomla Showcase http://www.bestofjoomla.com/component/option,com_bestofsites/Itemid,78/
Unoffical WordPress Showcase http://welovewp.com/