| If you are using Joomla CMS, SEO is in many ways a | | | | you to use the mod_rewrite feature on Linux servers. |
| much easier task to undertake. There are link building | | | | In other words, it gets rid of the ugly long URL's which |
| components with auto link check features, friendly URL | | | | include special characters. You can create your own |
| components, title tag creators, Google site map | | | | URL's suing your keywords. For instance, if you are |
| creators, built in site maps and many other "little | | | | writing a webpage on carrots, you want to have the |
| programs" which automate many of the tedious | | | | main keyword in the URL if possible. OpenSEF allows |
| optimization tasks for the webmaster. When you build | | | | you to create a friendly URLs and assign them to the |
| a new website with Joomla, there is a list of | | | | built in url's which are not very crawler friendly. It's |
| components that should be installed and configured | | | | important because some of these CMS site URL's |
| right from the very beginning of your project. | | | | contain stop characters like & % which could stop |
| 5 Steps to Making Your Joomla Website SEO Friendly. | | | | the search engine from crawling any further on your |
| 1. Install the latest version of Joomla The core Joomla | | | | website. This component also includes many seo tools, |
| install package (1.10) now comes with better built-in | | | | like a Google sitemap creator. |
| usability features such as label tags being added to | | | | 4. Install a Link Building Component |
| Site module and component output, and the | | | | There are a couple really goods ones out there. Linx is |
| mosHTML::selectList and mosHTML::radioList | | | | a new one which has built in link checking. This means |
| automatically provide the correct label tag. | | | | it will automatically check to ensure your partner still |
| 2. Install the Joomla SEF Patch This patch improves | | | | has a link back to your site. It's very easy to create |
| the Joomla core code into good SEO code and is | | | | categories on the fly, and to add link partners just by |
| available for Joomla 1.010 The basic installation of | | | | cuting and pasting their website information into a form. |
| Joomla is not fully optimized for search engine | | | | 5. Install a samSiteMap Component for your Website. |
| optimization. This patch gives you the ability to assign | | | | A sitemap true indexing component creates complex |
| META data to all Joomla related URL's, so you can | | | | document trees and/or content lists for your website |
| define now META data for Joomla components as | | | | users. samSiteMap can be used to create a full site |
| well. It offers Multi-phrase keywords suggestions for | | | | Index All Joomla standard content |
| URL META pages, and you can overrule the META | | | | (content,contacts,links,newsfeeds,etc..) can be included, |
| settings of the "standard" Joomla documents and | | | | each having its own short description derived from the |
| assign different META tags then the documents | | | | items themselves (like a search engine display). |
| 3. Install OpenSEF This component is amazing. It allows | | | | |