Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Tips, tricks, information and tutorials to help make your Joomla website more search engine friendly.

10 Surefire Search Engine Optimization Tips for Joomla Bloggers

March 12th Information and Tutorials \ Search Engine Optimization Do you know that according to Technorati there are over 130 millions blogs indexed and nearly 1 million blog posts in every hour? You bet that the blogosphere is a crowded space, and apparently it takes a lot more hard work to stand out from the crowd than it was 5 years ago. Continue reading...

The Difference Between Dashes and Underlines in SEF URLs

May 22nd Information and Tutorials \ Search Engine Optimization You may have heard that Google and other search engines prefer that you use dashes or hyphens (-) instead of underlines or underscores (_) as word separators in your URLs. Google actually recommends that you use dashes or hyphens when creating search engine friendly or search engine optimized URLs instead of underscores. Here's why. Continue reading...

Install a Search Engine Friendly URLs Component

May 14th Information and Tutorials \ Search Engine Optimization Joomla's default URLs, like the standard URLs of any CMS, are terrible for Search Engine Optimization purposes. They have several querystring parameters, they are not human readable, they offer search engines no keywords or insight into what content the page holds, and they use the Itemid parameter to create multiple URLs for each content item. Luckily there are Search Engine Friendly URL components available for Joomla that solve all these issues for us. Continue reading...

Get More Google Traffic With Random Content Links

April 2nd Information and Tutorials \ Search Engine Optimization Here's a cool SEO tip that will automatically bring you more traffic from Google and other search engines: Put a Random Content module on your homepage. It's better to have it on as many pages as possible, but the homepage is key. I discovered this trick while experimenting with a different modules on the homepage. Continue reading...