Joomla! Not good for SEO!!

I've heard from many people that sites made with Joomla! are not good for SEO. Please share your opinion.

 

The way it comes, no it's not the best SEO wise. You have to make sure you set up search engine friendly URL's, and find ways to overcome a few other hurdles. There are some great plug-ins available to make Joomla sites SEO friendly, but if you use it as is then yes, it has some aspects to it that are not very good for SEO.

 

Thank you. I am new to this and I Don't think that I would be able to make anything without joomla . Which CMSs are seo wise? Could you please refer me the "great- plug-ins" you mentioned?

 

What aspects apart from URL's are not good for joomla?

 

no i don't think so because joomla open source is better for make website and also it best for doing seo.

 

CMS always good..you should aware of components availability and how to optimize your CMS..

 

well, i would like to say that, after Wordpress, Joomla is world'd 2nd best and SEO Friendly Open Source CMS. We just need some components to be developed by some developers and some are avail on net. But Joomla is SEO Friendly. you can use SEF for SEO Friendly URL and Title META.

 

Yup cms systems are great - no need to worry about your internal linking structure - well maybe a few tweaks but joomla is great - I have a joomla website on page 1 of google for a highly competative keyword and the site only has like 3-4 pages - not optimised properly but still anking high

 

That's not true. Joomla is very good for seo. Just use sh404 or Artio sef

 

Whether Joomla is SEO friendly or not depends on:

1) How you configure it, but more importantly
2) The theme and widgets/components you select to use on the site.

It's the theme and widgets/components you use on your site that render the actual HTML that the search engines see... It's the HTML that is rendered that affects the most on-page/on-site ranking factors.

 

Does this mean that I should not download and use the templets available on the internet??

 

Would you please give me the url so that I could have an idea??

 

I do think there are some problems with Joomla in regards to the way URL's are created, but SEO is generally an effort process. There isn't an easy answer unless we're talking about some truly non competitive keywords.

 

Well, that is what I am talking about. If the CMS is not SEO friendly itself, then all the effort will go in vain.

 

Absolutely not... There is nothing wrong with using readily available templates available online. All I am saying is that some templates are much more SEO-friendly than other templates. So if you care about SEO then choose your template wisely.

 

I used Joomla for an ecommerce site and did very well.

You do need to use the available plugins to make the URLs search engine friendly, although Google is getting better at understanding query strings.

 

not sure, but I'm pretty sure in html work better. I don't know how Joomla work but I think it also use some html codes.

 

Joomla is a hard-coded CMS. Not an SEO friendly CMS, unlike Wordpress.

 

Hi,

In my own experiences, Joomla is well enough for SEO purpose. If you need extra SEO feature, you could also find some add-ons on its official forum and site. Also, I think search engines would have no difficult in dealing with dynamic sites these days.

all the best,

 

Thanks for your reply. Would you tell me how can I choose my templates wisely? I don't know much about this stuff