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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

Some other changes from the patch


The most important changes done by the patch are mentioned in the previous paragraphs, but there are two other items that I would like to mention.

Generator Meta name

Joomla! is a content management system that places a small line in the source code of each page:

<meta name="generator" content="Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management" />

Now, this line simply promotes Joomla! 1.5 if a visitor of your site looks at the source code to see what system you are using, as they may be keen to use the same system.

However, this same line is also visible to people who are looking for sites to hack.

It also adds an extra line to your page and this line is not really needed, so you should remove it. The patch will remove this line for you.

For your Search Engine Optimization efforts you want the cleanest code possible, so I remove the extra line of code from my sites.

Copyright

The Copyright field adds another meta tag line to your source code that contains the...