A content management system (CMS) is a multifunctional application used to create, edit, manage, and publish content in a consistently organized fashion. CMS consists of a content management application which enables the management and modification of content without advanced webmaster knowledge, and a content delivery application, that uses new information to update the website.

A CMS may support the following features:

• identification of all key users and their content management roles;
• the ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types;
• the ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content;
• the ability to publish the content to a repository to support access to the content;
• separation of content's semantic layer from its layout (presentation).

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An important part of developing a successful web site is attracting a steady stream of targeted traffic.

A significant amount of web site traffic originates from the major search engines. A search engine is a web site that indexes web pages. These sites run software programs called Spiders or Robots that continuously crawl the Internet in search of new web pages to index.

When you visit a search engine and you're looking for something in particular, you type in a few words that best describe what you're looking for. These words are known as keywords. The search engine will return a list of web sites that are most relevant to your keywords.