Search Engine Marketing Study (D-A-CH) - Content Management System

Since August 31st 2006 532 companies provided us with information for our search engine marketing study. 334 companies use a Content Management System to maintain/build their websites. We asked them the following questions. Not all had to be answered.

Individual title

Can you set a individual title for each document within your cms?

Yes	226	85.61 %
No	38	14.39 %

Individual Meta-Description

Can you set a individual Meta-Description for each document?

Yes	222	84.41 %
No	41	15.59 %

Automatic Sitemap

Does your content management system automaticaly generate a sitemap bound within the website?

Yes	143	54.37 %
No	120	45.63 %

Automatic Google Sitemap

Does your content management system automaticaly generate a Google Sitemap, XML Feed, and provide it to the search engine based on changes?

Yes	57	21.92 %
No	203	78.08 %

URL Rewriting

Does your content management system use URL-Rewriting for easy bookmarks and crawlability reasons?

Yes	138	52.87 %
No	123	47.13 %

Costs

How much did you pay for your content management system?

Free or chard	90	34.09 %
Up to EUR 1000	44	16.67 %
Up to EUR 10000	70	26.52 %
Up to EUR 50000	39	14.77 %
Up to EUR 100000	21	7.95 %