Stop Forgetting It

AI bots use existing search engines to get results, it just that the results are now told to you like a conversation instead of a list of links. LLM bots are not search engines and these AI companies are not building search engine bots, they are LLM bots that generate predictive text based on already existing search engines that actually do the indexing. They wouldn’t work at all if it wasn’t for Google and Bing. The referral source may have changed but the SEO strategy is still the same.

Totally forgot about Drupal and Joomla for CMSs. Its been along time for me since I have worked on a Drupal site, but I do remember it being pretty easy to pick up.

If you want to host it on your own webserver, Wordpress is best answer. There is no CMS that will really compare to WP for ease of set up and configuration if you are hosting yourself. WP is also portable so if you do decide to move it to a different host you can port the whole site. Should know that WP is a security nightmare if its not kept updated. It requires ACTIVE maintenance, like every day, no longer than every week, it is not “set it and forget it”.

Editing to add- self hosted Drupal and Joomla are also options. I not as familiar with these as I am WP, but they are both portable and easy to set up in a self hosted environment. Also maybe slightly less of a security issue than WP as they are just used less.

If you don’t mind someone else hosting, Wix, Weebly, Duda or Squarespace are very simple systems that can get a site up for you quickly and looking decent. But you cannot move the site to a new host, you are required to stay within their environments.