Here are some hints and tips on the basics of SEO for Joomla. If you use these tips then your Joomla installation will be completely SEO friendly. These are our top ten tricks on how to configure your Joomla website. Follow the steps and config your Joomla installation from the ground up.
Install the SEF Patch
- Install and configure JoomSEF or other SEF URL transalation component for use with Joomla. JoomSEF Latest Version
- Change the title of Joomla to use title alias - helps for Admin purposes
- Identify 30-40 keyword phrases using Google Adwords Keyword Tool.
- Optimise frontpage title for your top 3-5 keyword phrases
- Sprinkle these top keywords through meta tags and content on frontpage
- divide up the other keywords into 3-4 groups and optimise other pages for these keywords.
- Unique page titles, meta descriptions, meta keywords, page content.
- Divide up the page content with appropriate page headings using H1, H2, H3 etc tags
- Use appropriate page names in JoomSEF. ie: website-design.html & website-development.html
