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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

Looking at advanced configuration settings


Advanced means that we get into the real options that matter for optimizing your web site for the search engines. Most Joomla! webmasters will install sh404SEF and get it working by implementing an .htaccess file that works for their site. As you want all the best SEO options active and implemented on your Joomla! site, you have to go the extra mile and switch from basic to extended.

If you haven't done so in the previous paragraph, it's time to do it now. Just click on that blue banner on the right side of the sh404SEF control panel.

After the screen is updated you have several more options.

Here are some of the extras:

  • Import/Export URLs

  • View/Edit 404 Logs

  • View/Edit Custom Redirects

  • Purge Custom Redirects

  • META tags

  • Delete META

But that is not all… Just click on the sh404SEF Configuration button, where you first saw the default tabs such as the following:

Now, you will see the following tabs:

If that doesn't impress you, as there...