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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

Getting advanced, are you?


The next configuration tab is of great importance as these options will provide you with more control over the URLs.

Cache management

Using the URL cache means that the SEF URLs created by sh404SEF will be stored in a separate cache on your server. This is meant to decrease the loading time of your site, as it eliminates the need for sh404SEF to query your database for the right URL to a page, it will use the one from the cache.

Using the standard cache size of 10000 Kb means you are using approximately 1 MB of your server space. This means there can be around 5000 URLs in that space. If you have more than that, increase the size of the cache if you need to, count 1MB extra for every 5000 URLs. You can check the number of URLs created by sh404SEF on the control panel and if you want to know how many articles you have, check the last page of Article Manager and look at the last article number, that would give you some idea. Be aware that the installed components...