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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

How to change your Home page Meta settings


With the Joomlatwork patch active, you could set the meta tags description and keywords within the Home link of your main menu. To move forward with the next item, save changes made in the Plugins option and go back to the main panel of sh404SEF. If you install sh404SEF, the meta tags description for your Home menu item doesn't work anymore as we let sh404SEF handle some of these items.

If you activate the meta handling option, you can set the options you want for your home page. Go to the Meta tags option and click on the link in the top right menu as shown in the following screenshot:

Just copy and paste the text you had inserted in your Global Configuration | SEO options.

You don't need to use the Robots tag for the home page as you want it indexed and followed. You only want to use the language tag if you write in a language other than English. So if you don't need them, why are they there? Simply because a large part of the screen layout used...