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I have heard about Drupal as being one of the best CMS’ since early 2006. I remember first hearing it on SEO Rockstars mentioned by Greg Boser as he once said they are “looking into Drupal” and that was more than a year ago already. Then I noticed companies like SEOPosition and Apogee Search are specifically saying they do Drupal stuff and are marketing themselves that way.

And I was still confused on what route to take as I have seen other people with a lot of proficiency in Joomla and still making their websites rank high for SEO purposes like the works of Jun Macarambon and Dennis Agulo.

But I received the task of doing some research at work to compare various CMS’, Drupal emerged as the winner. The research was a long and detailed process, which I do not even want to repeat in this blog post. And after my own research, Drupal was my winner and after I have done my research, I was happy to find other websites starting to come out that reinforces my decision. Here are a few things I found on the net which may want you to choose Drupal also over other CMS’.

The IBM Development Team thinks Drupal is the best for them

IMB Software Engineers: Louis Weitzman, Alister Lewis-Bowen and Stephen Evanchik did their study and posted the results here.

Drupal Wins Overall 2007 Open Source CMS Award

Wow, Drupal won the best CMS, after always being second from Joomla, this year, Joomla is second.

A lot of popular and probably high traffic sites use Drupal

JumpTV, MTV UK, The New York Observer, Ozzy Osbourne, Playboy Germany, The World (by BBC World Service) and Us Weekly Online, a longer list of notable sites using Drupal can be found here.

I myself am sold by the power of Drupal, now the next step is actually learning it. Learning Drupal is not that hard and there are several mini Drupal tutorials here and here. And one of the best teachers of Drupal is the community. Learn from other Drupal users in in the official Drupal forum. And in the learning process you can play both roles as Drupal student or Drupal teacher depending on your current Drupal knowledge. You can always be a Drupal pupil to Drupal experts better than you. And you can play Drupal instructor to followers with less Drupal knowledge.

Now if the forum is not enough, You can always buy Drupal books, I 3 books I recommend are: Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress, Pro Drupal Development and Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites. One thing I like about books compared to online forums is, I could easily bring a book to the restroom when needed since being in the restroom is always a waste of time. Might as well learn Drupal in the process.