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By making sure your Joomla SEO is the best it can be we can make sure your website performs better in the search engines.

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Joomla is a stunning CMS and using it makes building a search engine friendly site a breeze, especially when you work with us! We've tried and tested all the various search engine enhancements for Joomla and we know how to make Joomla as search friendly as it's possible to be. If you want your Joomla website to provide more business, send you more visitors and simply perform better on Google then you've found the answer......US!

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We have become experts at creating commercial websites using Joomla! and meeting our clients needs and expectations such as their sites being easily found in the search engines.

SEO is hard enough without putting technical barriers in the way but that's exactly what you'll be doing if you don't set your Joomla site up correctly. Don't take that risk, work with us and we'll make sure your Joomla SEO is taken care of.

FREE Joomla SEO Check List

We believe knowledge is power and speaking to people in plain English so these simple Joomla SEO tips work.

For the DIY fans here's our simple SEO check list for Joomla 1.0.x and 1.5.x. You are mere steps away from improving the SEO of your site.

SEF URL's and Page Titles – fast and simple to set up and they work!

• Use SEF URL's. Our preferred solution is SEF Advance.  It's not perfect but it works very well. It's also very easy to set up.
• If you are using SEF Advance you can set it to hide the section and category in the URL. This can make the URL's simpler and shorter although leaving them in can make the URL's more descriptive and allow you to create a more logical site structure with larger sites.
• Set the page title to HIDE in the parameters, you can do this globally. This allows the page Title box to be used for a well crafted page TITLE element, very important for SEO, and then simply use a normal H1 element for the on page title. If you are using content items instead of static content use the title alias for your SEF URL. This only applies to Joomla 1.0, Joomla 1.5 doesn't have static content items, it uses uncategorised articles.
• With the page title set to HIDE create a H1 on-page header, assuming the page content needs a header. You may need to style your CSS to make this look OK.

Meta this, Meta that

• Create a unique META DESCRIPTION for each page. Google uses these in the SERPs.
• Create unique META KEYWORDS for each page. They are no longer important but it's better to be safe than sorry.
• Empty the global META TAGS in Global Config.

Site Names – It's all in the name

• Empty the Site Name in the Global Config.
• Version 1.0 Only This will leave an annoying "-" at the start of your title tags. If you are happy editing PHP files you can edit includes/joomla.php.
  MAKE SURE YOU BACK UP FIRST!!!
  Replace this:
  $this->_head['title'] = $title ?
  $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'] . ' - '. $title :
  $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'];
  with this:
  $this->_head['title'] = $title ?
  $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'] . $title :
  $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'];
• To fix the so called canonical issues and make sure you only have one version of your homepage add the following lines to your .htaccess file AFTER replacing 'yourdomain.com' with your own domain.
  #Red Evo index.php fix
  RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
  RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.yourdomain.com/ [R=301,L]
  #Red Evo Homepage fix
  Redirect 301 /home http://www.yourdomain.com
• Install the Joomap extension and tell Google, Live, Yahoo etc about your site!

Track your progress (and your visitors)

• Install Google Analytics and/or Clicky into your template's index.php file using the in built Joomla! Template Manager.

If you follow these simple steps you will have:

• Absolute control over your SEF URL, Title Tag and Meta Description.
• A SEF H1 tag on the page to help the engines understand your page better.

Fancy a bit more reading?

Why not check out our blog posts covering SEO Basics or make use of our FREE Joomla! SEO Forum.

The Joomla! CMS creates search engine friendly websites. By following our tips and tricks you can make your Joomla! SEO even better.