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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

Learning how to ask for a link


Sending an email to webmasters asking for a link to your web site is also an option to gain more incoming links. But sending an email with text such as the following will not get you a link from my site.

  • Hello,

  • I have found your web site really informative and I think that my web site http://www.example.com could also be of benefit to your visitors.

  • Please consider placing a link on your web site and send me the page with that link and I will link back to you.

  • With kind regards,

  • Webmaster of http://www.example.com

So, what is wrong with such a request. You don't use the name of the webmaster or company involved. You don't show that you really visited the site and read some articles. You don't talk about the topics and benefits that visitors might find on your site. You request a link back before you consider placing the site link on your site (a dead give away of non-relevance, otherwise you would have linked to the site already).

You ask for a confirmation...