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Joomla! 1.5 SEO

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Joomla! 1.5 SEO

Overview of this book

Some sites always appear at the top of a search result while others fail to even make it to the top ten. Wouldn't you want to see your site on the first page of any search result? This is not easily feasible if you are depending solely on the marketing guys whom you hire for SEO. Joomla! SEO will help you to attract more visitors and improve the way you rank in search engines by giving you the techniques and knowledge to work your site into higher visitor numbers. It will help you to create and improve your site in an easy way. Joomla! is great, and you can make it perform even better by using the guidelines and ideas in this book. Search Engine Optimization is becoming a must for every web site. As the competition on the Internet grows you need to make sure your site is among the top results on the major search engines. More and more people use search engines to find the information they are looking for, so you need to make sure you show up in those search result pages to get those visitors to your web site. Joomla! SEO will provide you with a lot of information, ranging from keywords strategies through technical improvements and content creation. All this information and the tutorials provided are targeted to give you the best base for gaining higher rankings. In the book, you will learn how to build a keyword strategy and create a better site structure for SEO. You will read about technical improvements that will give you better options for SEO. There is a separate chapter that helps you create search-engine friendly and keyword-rich URLs. In the end, you will have a web site that is ready to outperform your competitors and a manual to refer to for improving every step you take.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 SEO
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
9
Tracking and Tracing to Improve Your Web Site

Creating your own linking empire


Besides blog comments and forum posts you can build your own little linking empire. To do that you can use several free blogging and page building services that are free of charge. We will be looking at services such as:

  • Google Sites

  • Blogger (blogspot.com domains)

  • Squidoo

  • HubPages

  • WordPress

WordPress is the big one when it comes to creating highly relevant incoming links that will perform well in the search engines. We will be looking into WordPress in depth rather than the other services.

Remember, we are building links that themselves need to score well in the search engine results to get the most benefit from our work. So, how much work does it take and how difficult is it to work with those services to create good ranking results that will benefit your site in the long run?

Google Sites

If you have a Google account, go to your account page and look for Sites. Click on the Create site button and start building your pages. A sitemap is created directly and if...