How to Optimize your Joomla site with Keywords
If you have read several topics on Search Engine Optimization, you will find that the term “Keywords” is used to indicate several different items of SEO.
Like:
- Metatag keywords
- Search keywords
- Targeted keywords
And the latter is what I am going to give you some extra inside information on, and it will show you how easy it is if you really want to boost your sites ranking for your mayor keyword that you are targetting.
Optimizing your site structure
First things first… do your keyword research and find the topics related to your website main topic.
Then reorganize your site structure to reflect that relations.
So if you would create a website about, well lets say eheh… Joomla! then you know it will be very difficult to rank for the search term Joomla! itself.
But there are a lot of keywords related to Joomla, like Templates, Components, Modules, Plugins, Mambots.
See how these terms kan create a cluster of keywords?
Here is an image of elliance infographics that shows it all:
And the best part is… Joomla will actually force you in to structure it the right way, if you do you keywords research!
You see, were may people think of the rigid structure of Joomla for placing content is a bad thing, it is actually a great thing for SEO.
In Joomla you have to set up a structure in Section, Categories and Items which is pretty simple as you can read on Understanding the Joomla structure
But clustering you keywords in categories within the a section is the best keyword cluster you can create!
In a more diffecult term this is called LSI, Latent Semantical Indexing which is covered in Joomla and LSI for SEO
So if you really want your site to rock in the search engines, get your keywords together, create categories for them and start writing your content items accordingly…
Oh, one more thing… if you are going to restructure you Joomla site, make sure you 301 redirect your old URLs to the new ones!
Google lets you know about your SEO errors
If you liked the tool mentioned in my previous post about Joomla and SEO, you might also want to read this article on my other Blog.
This one is about the new Content analysis page in Google webmaster central:
Google helps with Meta description and title errors
So you want to know how your Joomla site is on SEO?
It has been a while since my latest post, but I really have been busy working on new website building projects.
So my time is already limited, because I do all this stuff on the Internet after my normal daytime job.
Why? because I like to share knowledge, get in touch with new idea’s and try them to see what happens, and of course communicate with others about Joomla and SEO.(See the Blog-roll for my favorites!)
But today I found a little website that will gives you an impression on how well your are doing with your SEO efforts.
You do have some idea from your visitor counts I hope! But here is the URL to get a really nice overview of SEO Information like:
- PageRank
- Backlinks
- Indexed Pages
- Rankings
- Social Bookmarking
- RSS Feed counts and more
So go and check your own domain at http://www.xinureturns.com/
Below you can find a sample image of one of my websites.
O, and yes, I will try to post more with the coming weeks and months to come… most will be on Joomla 1.5 I think!
Joomla Tools and Resources from Mashable
I just read a great page that gives you lots of website links with high quality information about Joomla.
Altough the Title of 30+ Joomla Tools and Resources doesn’t really give you tools like modules or components, a lot of the sites featured in this post do have some fine extensions for your Joomla website.
I know I have to look over some new sites and see what they have in store!
The one I already visit a lot to get great add-ons is http://www.joomla-addons.org/ please check that one for sure!
Joomla! Best PHP Open Source Content Management System
Joomla! Best PHP Open Source Content Management System…
Don’t take my word on it, this is the what the Packt Publishing Award judges say:
http://www.packtpub.com/article/joomla-wins-best-php-open-source-content-management-system
Joomla Wins Best PHP Cms
But it is nice to see ”Once again, judges commented on the size and responsiveness of the community, which translates to potential problems being dealt with quickly.”
DS Syndication for Joomla Feeds new improved component v1.1.0
Just recently I wrote about how to improve you Joomla Feed and select different categories to create different Feeds.
No just last week www.joomlafun.com released version V1.1.o , a stable release with a few new features.
One of the things I like the most is that you no can select a Section! Instead of putting all categories separately into the Feed you create, you now can select a Section, and you are done…
But you can also give people a feed of every update of your website… and not just the Frontpage.
Upgrading to this version is also easy, just download the new DS Syndicate version.
Uninstall you previous version via the Component Installer (Please do not use the uninstall function of the component !! you will loose every feed you configured.)
Now install the new version via the Component installer, you receive a message that everything is upgrade correctly.
If you check the feeds you already created, you will see everything is still there.
But you might want to check the new section functions, you might want to use this function if you want to further improve your feeds for you Joomla site visitors.
And if you did run your Joomla feeds through Feedburner, it is automatically done for your feed subscribers :-)
Here is the Full feed of Hummerbie.com as an example.
