SEO
My day-to-day work is as a consultant specializing in SEO (search engine optimization) and Joomla! CMS. Thus, I will write about SEO in general, and how you can implement Joomla SEO in the best way possible. How to make Joomla websites search engine friendly is something many people ask me about. It's a very interesting subject as it can impact your business quite significally to get your site indexed in the search engines and achieve good rankings for important words and phrases.
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This is the third part of a series of posts on how to work with meta elements in Joomla.
Meta tags are tags, or meta elements, that (mostly) contain information about the website or page which is not shown directly to the user. In this part I will show you how to use the meta tag functionality in sh404SEF to improve your site SEO.
The previous parts of this series are:
If you have the SEF (Search Engine Friendly) component sh404SEF installed, the meta tag management is more flexible than with the built-in Joomla solution. You will be able to enter meta tags for any page on your site. This involves for instance that you may enter meta elements for blog and section views, as well as for following pages automatically generated from these views (i.e. page-2, page-3 etc).
This is the second part of a series of posts on how to work with meta elements in Joomla.
In the first post, I looked at what meta tags are and how to use them. Now, we will be more concrete, delving into the how-to of setting up meta tags with Joomla.
Even though the Joomla installation comes with an option to install sample content, I've never used it in a real site.
I think I installed the sample data the first time I installed a test version of Joomla, but I've never done it again.
In this post, I'll look at the Joomla sample content, and see if it's bad for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to use this content on your site.
This is the first part of a series of blog posts exploring Joomla meta tags.
In this first post I'll look at what meta tags are and what they should be used for.
Future posts in the series will examine how to set up the meta tags by using the Joomla core, and with third-party SEF extensions.
OK, so you have a brand new site going on - and it's all made in Joomla. But how to get traffic from the search engines?
There are several things you can do to ensure that Google and other search engines are picking up your pages. This will, over time, give you search engine positions for your keywords.
Without indexation, no positions, and no traffic from search engines. It's not rocket science, but you need to make sure that your pages are reachable by search engine spiders to get indexed. I'll show you six steps to get your site indexed by Google and other search engines.
There are basically three ways of approaching search engine friendly (SEF) URLs in Joomla. Here, I explain these three methods of Joomla SEO and their pros and cons.
