How to Use Joomla Titles to Improve your Search Engine Optimization

Joomla Title Alias

As you might know, the most important factor for Search Engine Optimization (besides content..) is the Title Tag. In Joomla the Title of your page is the first part of your Content screen.   Writing good titles is essential if you want to get found on the keywords you are targeting. But you also want to keep the titles on your pages short, to make sure … [Read more...]

Joomla SEF Reviews and Joomap Tip

A couple of months ago I told you about the Joomap and why you should get one but Alledia now wrote about an additional way to Improve your indexing. But that was not not all, they recently done a Joomla URL week about several Joomla SEF Components, the conclusions can be read at Joomla URL Week Conclusions I stick to my OpenSEF component as my most favorite one, and … [Read more...]

The difference between RSS Feed and RSS Feed in Joomla

This post is just to explain two components in Joomla, both are related to RSS Feeds. Joomla News Feeds Component  The First one goes under the component name "News Feeds" and it can be used to integrate RSS Feed content of Other websites into your pages. So lets say you want the content of this Blog to appear in you Joomla website.., just as a service to your visitors. … [Read more...]

Using RSS Feed Syndication for your Joomla website Promotion

Joomla Feed Manager

Joomla! has some great features build in to set up an RSS Feed that your visitors can describe to. First a short explanation of RSS from wikipedia; "A web feed is a data format used for serving users frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it." This means that the content of the updated or new … [Read more...]

Little Book on Joomla SEO

Just a short update from my other private blog.... I have made an e-Book of 22 pages covering the same aspects of making Joomla Search Engine optimized. This is my first e-Book, and I don't think I will make another one pretty soon :-) I have to translate it into dutch also, but here is the release post. The Little Joomla SEO Book Ready P.s. This doesn't mean I will … [Read more...]

AlphaContent for Joomla Real SEO Component

Last time I promised you to tell you about this great Search Engine Optimization component for Joomla. Now I will give you the download URL in a minute.... First off, this component wasn't made for Joomla SEO, it was made to bring your information to your visitors in a Directory kind of way. Thus it gives your visitors (including Spiders) a great overview with excerpts … [Read more...]

Sitemap for Joomla SEO

Why a Sitemap?  Robots love to find a page that brings them all pages to index in one page, they feed on it.... Like the new Sitemap.xml which also contains all links. If you don't have a Sitemap page just yet, go download Joomap from Sourceforge Joomla If you are using Joomla then you must know Joomap! It is the number one component that makes a Joomla website even … [Read more...]

Making Google Sitemaps for Joomla in 6 easy steps

You know about Google and his sitemap function? Yes? Then skip the first part and go to the making of.... No? Then read the first part: Google Sitemaps If You go over to http://www.google.com/webmasters/ there is a section called Webmaster Tools. This is a section that will bring you lots of information about how Google has indexed your site and what you can do to … [Read more...]

Joomla SEF Component

Now that we have the basic Joomla SEO working, it is time for you to take the next step.. Installing a Component that makes even better URL's, the ones that read like http://www.pathos-seo.com/seo-for-your-website/ibp-seo-search-engine-optimization-software.html  Or just http://www.pathos-seo.com/seo-for-your-website/ . Now that is what I call user and search engine … [Read more...]

Must haves to Make Joomla SEF

If we are going to make Joomla Search Engine Friendly there are some things to take into account. Joomla Basic SEF Needs First of all, lets see if your hosting providers runs an Apache web server, since this is the most used web server application, changes are your oké. To find out, just look at your Joomla Administrators Menu for "System" and choose "system information" … [Read more...]