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SEO for Joomla vs standard website

Discussion in 'Joomla' started by Gomar, Jul 7, 2011.

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  1. #1
    Hi,

    I've been playing around with joomla trying to figure out if it would be right for me.

    It seems like joomla has some seo features and metatags and things like that but I'm wondering in terms of organic seo does it have any drawback when you integrate a blog or forum into your joomla? OR should you make them separate and just link them together.

    Also, when you have tab links on the site, you can switch to multiple sets of links in one tab space, kinda like flash. Iuno if I making any sense here but is there any drawback in terms for seo?

    Thanks in Advance!
    Gomar
     
    Gomar, Jul 7, 2011 IP
  2. waziuz

    waziuz Active Member

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    There is no problem with SEO if you integrate a blog or forum. Having said that, I personally find Joomla a lot slow loading compared to other CMS and websites and that might affect SEO a bit. And be sure to enable pretty permalinks too. I have seen websites where affiliate sites etc. of a brand ranking higher in SERP than the official website in case of Joomla. So, not sure how SEO friendly Joomla is as a platform. Use pretty links if possible at least as that is another major drawback with Joomla. Most people would recommend Drupal instead of Joomla if you care about SEO more. Wordpress can also accomplish most things that Joomla can. Just my two cents.
     
    waziuz, Jul 10, 2011 IP
  3. revenco_andrei

    revenco_andrei Active Member

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    It depends on how you make your joomla website. I myself modify a part of the sources for having h1 on section/category titles and h2 on article titles. Besides the small little hacks that you can do joomla is ok as a cms - not the most seo friendly, but certainly not at all a bad cms. And keep in mind that content is king and a low bounce rate will bring a plus now and then.
     
    revenco_andrei, Jul 11, 2011 IP
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    neevedu Peon

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    #4
    Joomla is CMS SEO it's very easy to promote.
     
    neevedu, Jul 12, 2011 IP
  5. Gomar

    Gomar Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for the suggestions. I think I'm gonna stick with joomla instead of drupal for now though as it took me quite a while and lot of effort to figure out how it works. Don't want to go through it all over again.
     
    Gomar, Jul 12, 2011 IP
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    hoahoc141 Peon

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    Joomla is very good for SEO
    i Successed for 2 site on top 1 google
     
    hoahoc141, Jul 19, 2011 IP
  7. nonte

    nonte Active Member

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    Joomla supports SEO out of the box. You can also use some extensions to create custom urls,title and meta tags etc.

    Yes Joomla sites are slow compared to WP and that has some -ve effect on SEO. However I have managed to rank in top 10 for a few highly competed keywords with my Joomla site.
     
    nonte, Jul 27, 2011 IP
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    sandip.rd Peon

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    My many keywords are on top in Google but problem is that I want to make W3C Validate. And there are lots of error I got on each pages.
     
    sandip.rd, Aug 4, 2011 IP
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    sikander7860 Peon

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    Joomla is easy to optimize, except when you add components you may have to buy seo plugins for those components, and thier settings may vary from component to component.
     
    sikander7860, Aug 10, 2011 IP
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    birink Peon

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    i think joomla is the best,,friendly ..any buddy can make it good
     
    birink, Aug 29, 2011 IP
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    i never use joomla? can you tell me where i must start using joomla for seo stuff?
     
    moffey, Aug 29, 2011 IP
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    logoal Peon

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    #12
    there are tons of mods available which will make your life easier when it comes to promo your site.
     
    logoal, Aug 30, 2011 IP
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    logicsofts Peon

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    #13
    according to me wordpress is a good seo friendly website in this open source use proper h1 to h3, bold, header, footer, and more seo friendly plugin,

    according to me joomla is good open source for seo friendly, it's same as wordpress but some different because it's plugin different.

    standard website run according to you, so standard website is better than cms, so i prefer only standard website not any open source, in standard website some problem, but not more problems so it is best method to optimization any website.
     
    logicsofts, Sep 1, 2011 IP
  14. pirvan.marian

    pirvan.marian Greenhorn

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    Seo friendly are most importance, are many extension when you can use it.
     
    pirvan.marian, Sep 1, 2011 IP
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    Joomla is powerful in terms in functionality but you only want a simple site like blogging better use wordpress it's much faster in terms of SEO both are the same you can also try Drupal I've heard it's also good in SEO and some established site and also well known are using Drupal..
     
    HavenX, Sep 7, 2011 IP
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    mutatedllama Peon

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    Does Joomla have a caching system/plugin?
     
    mutatedllama, Sep 17, 2011 IP
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    yes joomla provide three types of caching system builtin
    Page caching
    View caching
    Module caching
    want to know more about it see joomla documentation http://docs.joomla.org/Cache
     
    itrc, Sep 18, 2011 IP
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    In comparison, will Joomla be better than Wordpress for SEO?
     
    verspact, Oct 19, 2011 IP
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    Joomla has SEO feature native, you can enable it in the admin control panel.
     
    b2tang, Oct 19, 2011 IP
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    Joomla has good SEO feature and has good crawl option
     
    asoltech, Oct 20, 2011 IP
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