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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

Control how search engines index your site


There are several other options build into the SEF patch, which you can use to guide the search engines and tell them what to do with your pages.

In the previous chapter, you also read about the robots.txt file. With this patch you get control over spiders and indexing on the page level.

Control all search engines with the Robots meta tag

The Robots meta tag is there to guide the Search Engine Robots to navigate through your site, telling them they should index the pages.

In the standard Joomla! Robots meta tag you have to write the terms yourself. However, with the patch you can use the drop-down box, which should make it easier for you to quickly change the settings.

If you don't specify that you want to use this field, it is not shown and the robots will use their default, which is index, follow.

So your pages will be indexed and the links on the page will be followed.

For pages such as privacy statements, disclaimers, and site rules you can use the...