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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

Finding your slowdowns


Before you do anything to speed up your web site, the first thing you need to check is, how well it performs. If you don't do that, you won't have a baseline to see how the improvements you make are affecting the loading time of your site. With this baseline you can check if the change is really an improvement, or if it is slowing down your web site. So, let's start getting that baseline.

Using OctaGate for insight

Using the OctaGate service, you can perform the first check of your site ( http://www.octagate.com/service/SiteTimer/). Once you get there, just fill in the link of your web site.

After you hit the Start button, you have to wait for a few seconds until the page is completely loaded. After the check is done, you get a full view of what is using up your download time.

In the following screenshot we can see what each color code represents:

Let's look at the meaning of each color code:

  • The first block shows when the element in that line is called

  • The second block...