Drupal may be too complex for a simple blog site, but if you have bigger dreams it is a good tool. With Drupal coming along, which will enable recipe setups for more out-of-the-box configured sites (a blogging setup, a video/media site, interactive communities setup), the massive amount of options may be predefined a bit more for users. Also, there are a few hosting companies that specialize in drupal pre-configured setups, but I prefer to struggle with and the master the drupal tools.

Drupal is really great, as far as I am concerned. It is used on this web. Comes SEO friendly out of the box. Installing additional modules and themes is a no-brainer, community is great and many modules exist.

- Clean URLs are a must. - An RSS feed is good; an RSS and an Atom feed are better. - Path module -> /blog/relevant_title_of_my_entry is better than /node/3454. Use pathauto for easier results. - For a blog, technorati, del.icio.us and other pings obviously help where appropriate. Trackbacks too - Content, content content. If your site isnt relevant, all of the above is pointless. Relevant static (pages) and dynamic (blog) content is the swiss army knife of SEO. gsitemap - to create google sitemap urllist - to create urllist (sitemap for yahoo) page title mod but it allows you to specify page titles while creating the page Short url - to make your urls ?