[...]... for your Joomla! based web site Solving basic Joomla! 1.5 SEO problems If you look at Joomla! 1.5, you will see that there are just a few settings in the administrator control panel under Global Configuration for SEO and meta tags The right setup of these options is one of the tasks you have to do right at the beginning If you look at the configuration panel, there is a small section called SEO Settings... ask for a link Knowing what to include in your link request Summary 255 256 256 257 259 260 Appendix A: A Joomla! Case Study in SEO 263 Choosing the niche Picking a domain name Setting up the Joomla! 1.5 base installation Installing the SEF patch and sh404SEF component Installing a good Joomla! SEO template Naming the sections and categories Building the menus The main menu Using images in blog layout... step Setting up your SEO strategy As I mentioned earlier you have to do some work on your Joomla! site to improve its ranking, but where do you start? Baby steps will not take you where you want to go You really need some kind of a game plan to help you out First you need to make some basic improvements to your Joomla! web site to eliminate some of the basic flaws in SEO for Joomla 1.5 We will then dive... You need to have a Joomla! 1.5 web site installed and hosted on a publicly accessible server where internet users can have free access to it You need to know how to install Joomla! components and you need to have access to the administration panel on a super administrator level to make some changes in the configuration of your web site You also need to have access to the root of your Joomla! installation,... and work them into your site structure • Improve the default SEO setup of Joomla!: This includes configuring SEO settings using patches and special components, and how to choose or alter your template parameters • Create search-friendly content: This includes using the right keywords in the right places, producing search-targeted pages Using Joomla! with a blog section is a great way to get more pages... component settings Using the best Meta /SEO option settings Security 404, and advanced How to change your Home page Meta settings Putting meta tags on Non-SEF components Taking it one step further—special URLs Solving and preventing possible problems Summary Chapter 7: The Importance of Good SEO Joomla! Templates Finding the right template for your site What to look for in SEO templates Why validation matters... covers Joomla! robots.txt and htaccess files Especially the later can cause big problems for a Joomla! webmaster if it is configured the wrong way There is an explanation of the different options within htaccess and robots.txt You get real life examples that can help you solve common issues to prevent error 500 pages on your site What you need for this book This book describes how to improve a Joomla! 1.5. .. it provides extra food for the search engines With Joomla! 1.0.x you would find a lot of PDF pages in the Google result pages [ 11 ] Download at WoweBook.Com This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by JEROME RAYMOND on 30th October 2009 125 Louis ST, , So Hackensack, , 07606 Developing your SEO and Keyword Strategy With Joomla! 1.5 there are some simple options you can configure... happening Just select Content | Article Manager | Parameter and Joomla! will open an overlay screen Here you can scroll down and disable Icons, PDF Icon, and Print Icon by selecting Hide then click on Save and you are done Meta generator tag Joomla!, just like WordPress, inserts an HTML tag that says: [ 12 ] Download at WoweBook.Com... October 2009 125 Louis ST, , So Hackensack, , 07606 Chapter 1 SEO Book Keyword Tool Another tool that uses the Wordtracker database might give you some better ideas, as it also shows Google, Yahoo!, and MSN (Live) daily estimates for searches This tool is called SEO Book Keyword Tool and is available at http://tools.seobook com/keyword-tools/seobook/ After you have typed the term you want to research, . blog indexing 11 0 Setting up Joomla! as a blog 11 1 How to structure your blog section 11 1 Choosing your blog categories 11 2 Stay focused and limit yourself 11 3 Creating a blog menu 11 4 Why use a. settings 15 0 Taking care of extended basics 15 4 How to optimize your plugins 15 4 Extra components, SEF, and other plugins 15 5 Language setting and SEF 15 6 Getting advanced, are you? 15 7 Cache. Text feed 11 6 Separator and blog categories 11 6 Commenting anyone? 11 7 Why comments are important 11 8 Interaction with your visitors 11 8 Installation and conguration of the Disqus plugin 11 8 Setting