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Joomla! Search Engine Optimization

By : Ric Shreves
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Joomla! Search Engine Optimization

By: Ric Shreves

Overview of this book

Joomla! is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build websites and powerful online applications. SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the process and techniques by which you optmize the content and style of your site in order to induce more people to view it.Joomla! Search Engine Optimization will help you develop and execute an effective search engine optimization strategy for your site. From planning to implementation, the book covers best practices in contemporary SEO.In Joomla! Search Engine Optimization you will learn how to develop a dynamic and productive SEO campaign. Covering both the basics of campaign development as well as the daily work it takes to maintain your SEO competitiveness, this book will show you how to produce a distinct and appropriate strategy for your particular site. In particular you will learn key phrase selection and competitor analysis and the correct groundwork for your dynamic SEO campaign. Joomla! Search Engine Optimization will then show you, by finding the right combination of extensions, how to supercharge your site. You will also be given a guided tour of key SEO services, like Google and Bing Webmaster, in order to implement a progressive and effective link building campaign. You will then learn key expert tips and tricks to enable you to build SEO-effective content which will take your site from invisible to unmissable with little effort.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Installing and configuring common SEO modules


In the following section of this chapter, we're going to look at how you can achieve a number of key SEO optimization goals through the installation and configuration of a set of extensions. All of the extensions discussed are non-commercial and are available through the Joomla! extensions directory.

Taken together, the extensions listed will achieve the following enhancements to your site:

  • Improved metadata management

  • Improved title tag management

  • Canonical URLs

  • Creation of an XML site map

  • Management of alt and title attributes

  • Implementation of social cross-posting

  • Implementation of social bookmarking tools for your site visitors

If you implement these extensions, and also take full advantage of the SEF URLs functionality in the Joomla! core, you will be well on your way to having your site on solid SEO footing.

Note

There are several extensions, discussed earlier, that provide a number of these options inside of one single package. Those packages...