Dear experts, Recently i made a website using a cms (joomla) and its url is not search engine friendly. Website pages are almost 100+ in numbers. I wanted to know that should i invest money for url rewriting or to leave as it is. Another thing is that i have redirected my website on "www" but index.php is still visible with home page. Is it necessary to redirect index.php to my FQDN (httx://www.mywebsite.com/) ?
Hi Johnshmit, I would suggest that joomla is very user friendly for SEO.Another things there are some steps when Google crawl our website you should add you website in Google webmaster. If you have any doubt you can feel free to ask me or if you need any SEO help you can approach me i will help you. AOL=danish_shaikh@aol.com skype=dan_shaikh86 Thanks & Regards Danish Shaikh
yes you can rewrite urls but if your website is new. if your website is old then rewiring url loose your website ranking. you can redirect your domain www.website.com/index.php to www.website.com. You can do this by rusing 301 redirect.
Hello, For getting your site in Search Engine you have to promote your site first then you can get you site in top in Search Engines. if you have not time OR you can't do this work then hire some one who can work for your site. And the second point, there is not any issue regarding this. Don't worry about this. Best Regards
Yes this person is correct. You can do URL rewriting or remapping as its also know but you will absolutely have to use a 301 (permanent) redirect otherwise you will loose rank and any traffic those current URLs are getting. You can find many good plugins that make rewriting URLs and remapping them with a 301 pretty easy to do. Otherwise you will have to use your robots.txt file. Best of luck.
Your URLS should be like this: domain.com/keyword/ And if your site is not in that format then you are missing out and giving your traffic away to your competitor. It's THAT important. SEO is a total game. Of course it doesn't make your site any better. Google wants you to believe you only have to worry about producing good content and the rest takes care of itself, but that's incorrect. If you don't put keywords in your path and if you don't have it only 1 level deep, then you're missing the boat. I'm sure others on this forum might argue this point, but they're likely missing out on potential traffic too. I'd change this immediately and do 301 redirects for each of your pages to your new path. Make sure you don't have it like this: domain.com/category/keyword - that's not good enough, and don't have it: domain.com/keyword.html - either, just one folder. BTW - this SEO info is all from here: http://www.portlandwebmarketing.org/grow-website-traffic/ You will likely need mod rewrite in .htaccess like this that will do the trick: RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_]+)/$ page.php?word=$1 [NC] Can probably hire someone on fiver.com to do that for you for only $5. Best of luck!
Hi Electroze Thanks for your help but the code you have given me is not working. I'm giving you my scenario in detail 1. domain age 1 year but it became live just before 2 month and still no index tag is implemented. 2. Hosted on apache As i feel Electroze you have a good knowledge of php code. could u please share how can i implement this code. An article said that you have to enable "icf" on server to rewrite you urls. you are requested to describe how can i enable ICF also. And second thing is that should i paste code in same htaccess file in which i've written redirection code for www redirection ?
URLRewriting can be used in place where we don't want to use cookies. It is used to maintain the session. Whenever the browser sends a request then it is always interpreted as a new request because http protocol is a stateless protocol as it is not persistent.