5 SEO tips for Joomla users Today joomla is the latest technique used for creating a website. Its main purpose is to serve as CMS. Every one can see the program code in joomla as it is an open source software. Few of the techniques for using joomla are: Do not install any sample content while deploying site with Joomla While implementing a site with Joomla, delete all items that come with the installation package as it will make your site as it contain pages and links that are irrelevant to your topic. Delete all sample data and empty the trash. Disable all PDF links When we analyze sites with Joomla, we often find that PDF files are positioned in better way than the original pages. It becomes difficult for the users to browse the site through PDF Because PDF pages have no menu links. So it is very important to turn off those links. Turn your cache on Smaller and faster sites are more popular with visitors and Google. One way to do this is to by activating the cache in the global configuration of Joomla. Add complete description for your sections and categories. These pages are great for improve your Page Rank and organizing your site. If you organize your sections and categories carefully, your site becomes very easy to navigate for your visitors and search engines. Have confidence. Joomla is excellent software that allows you to easily create many high quality pages that are very useful for SEO. If you will look at your site carefully then you will see effective working of Joomla.
Very true. I love Joomla and those PDF links are annoying for SEO. Do you know if there's a plugin or anything that makes them nofollow? I do like having the option to print PDFs available.
I wouldn't use Joomla for a blog but it's so useful for so many other things. You can also install WP for Joomla.
Yes, there is no need to have to choose between using Joomla and Wordpress. You can have both on one site. Just create a separate folder for Wordpress on a Joomla site.
I agree with QuickFree hos, switch to WordPress! However if you are already deep into a Joomla site there are some essential tools you ned. First off get some SEO ad-on´s. Important is a SEO friendly URL ad-on, this is the most important tool so that your links are filled with keywords instead of codes like ID=2 etc. Also get an SEO ad-on so you can make custom Title, Description, keyword META tags for each page. With these two tools you are good to go. I have had great success with Joomla sites, but honestly WordPress is now at a point where you can do much more with it.
Joomla is SEO friendly out of the box if you know how to set it up correctly. There is no need for plugins for knowledgeable users. The URLs are set up to be friendly in the global section The user makes the title themself, so if it is SEO-friendly, it is up to the user.
Okay.. Let me share my view on Joomla. Since last two years onwards i am working with joomla. Few more tips need to be follow while using joomla cms: - For this time on daily basis am getting so many crawl errors in my website, i found this update from google webmaster. Then i restricted the all unnecessary folders. So you just keep it once site was ready. - Use sh404SEF to get change seo related tasks. Any suggestion paste here.