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SEO refers to Search Engine Optimisation. SEO is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines. SEO can also be referred to as SEF, or Search Engine Friendly.
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Search Engine Optimisation (often abbreviated to SEO) refers to the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a Website from search engines. A site that has been optimised according to SEO practices is said to be Search Engine Friendly (often abbreviated to SEF).</translate>


See also:
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* [[Beginners#Address_Search_Engine_Optimization|Beginners: Address Search Engine Optimisation]]
The main article about SEO is [[S:MyLanguage/Making your site Search Engine Friendly|Making your site Search Engine Friendly]], which lists steps that lead to a better search engine ranking.</translate>}}
* [[Search Engine Optimisation|Search Engine Optimisation]]


[[Category:Landing Pages]]
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A somewhat important SEO technique that also helps your users is using [[S:MyLanguage/Search Engine Friendly URLs|Search Engine Friendly URLs]].</translate>


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See the [[S:MyLanguage/Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs|Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs]].</translate>|title=<translate><!--T:5-->
For more articles and information:</translate>}}


'''Joomla specific SEO / SEF tricks:'''


 
<div class="large-4 column">{{section portal heading|icon=search|size=0.25x|title=<translate><!--T:7-->
Posted by ''dextercowley'' in regards to correcting a problem when enableing Search Engine Friendly URLs in the Global Configuration of Joomla 1.5.2 and tested and verified to be true for 1.5.3 as well.
Getting started</translate>}}
 
<translate><!--T:8-->
" ... edit configuration.php as var $live_site = <nowiki>'http://www.mysite.com'</nowiki> "
*[[S:MyLanguage/Making your site Search Engine Friendly|Making your site Search Engine Friendly]]
 
*[[S:MyLanguage/Using_A_Sitemap|Using a Sitemap]]
Note that default configuration.php is <nowiki>var $live_site = ''</nowiki>
*[[S:MyLanguage/Using_The_Title_Tag|Making the most of the title tag]]
 
*[[S:MyLanguage/Using_The_Meta_Description|How to write good meta descriptions]]
 
*[[S:MyLanguage/Using_Keywords|Planning and using keywords]]</translate>
 
</div>
== Add a static text in the <nowiki><title></nowiki> ==
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Troubleshooting</translate>}}
Open the file:
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libraries/joomla/document/html/renderer/head.php
*[[S:MyLanguage/Common problems when enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs|Common Problems]]
 
*[[S:MyLanguage/Monitoring SEO|Monitoring SEO]]</translate>
Search for the next piece of code:
 
<nowiki>$strHtml .= $tab.'<title>'.htmlspecialchars($document->getTitle()).'</title>'.$lnEnd;</nowiki>
 
Add your statict text for example:
 
<nowiki>$strHtml .= $tab.'<title> All about Canada - '.htmlspecialchars($document->getTitle()).'</title>'.$lnEnd;</nowiki>
 
The text into the <title> tag is very important for the search engines.
 
If you need obtain a great search results for the word "All about Canada" I recommend your put the static text before of the $document->getTitle();
 
Other important thing, is don't use symbols like <nowiki>":", "-", "$",</nowiki> etc for the title.
 
 
Posted by ''juanparati''
 
 
 
== Add heading tags in the titles for more relevance ==
 
 
Search engines give a special relevance to the senteces between a "H" tag like <nowiki><h1></nowiki>, <nowiki><h2></nowiki> or <nowiki><h3></nowiki>.
 
I you want put a "H" tag to joomla 1.5 you need edit some files:
 
Open components/com_content/views/category/tmpl/blog.php
 
seach for this piece of code (Line 5):
 
<nowiki>
<div class="componentheading<?php echo $this->params->get('pageclass_sfx');?>">
  <?php echo $this->escape($this->params->get('page_title')); ?>
</div>
</div>
</nowiki>
<div class="large-4 column">{{section portal heading|icon=trophy|size=0.25x|title=<translate><!--T:11-->
 
Advanced SEO</translate>}}
 
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add your "H" tags between the title like this:
*[[S:MyLanguage/J5.x:Schema_org|Schema.org - Rich Snippets]]
 
*[[S:MyLanguage/Microdata|Microdata]]
 
*[[S:MyLanguage/Google Updates|Google Updates]]
<nowiki>  
*[[S:MyLanguage/Add_Static_Text_In_Title_Of_Page|Add static text in the title of pages]]
<div class="componentheading<?php echo $this->params->get('pageclass_sfx');?>">
*[[S:MyLanguage/Using_RSS_Feeds_To_Share_Content|Using RSS feeds to encourage traffic]]
  <h1><?php echo $this->escape($this->params->get('page_title')); ?></h1>
*[[S:MyLanguage/Using_Tag_Manager|Using Google Tag Manager]]
*[[S:MyLanguage/Robots.txt_file|Using the robots.txt file in Joomla]]
*[[S:MyLanguage/Enabling_HTTPS_on_your_site|Moving your website to use https]]
*[[S:MyLanguage/Linking_To_Other_Sites|Linking To Other Sites]]</translate>
</div>
</div>
</nowiki>


 
<noinclude>
If you add more "H" tags between the joomla titles search into the tmpl directories for the code:
<translate>
 
<!--T:6-->
<nowiki>   get('page_title')</nowiki>
[[Category:Landing Pages]]
 
[[Category:Search Engine Optimisation]]
 
</translate>
And add the "H" tags.
</noinclude>
 
Remember normalize the font-size of the "H" tags using css, for example
 
Edit your template css and add something like:
 
 
<nowiki>   .componentheading h1 {
      font-size: 16px;
    }</nowiki>
 
 
Posted by ''juanparati''

Latest revision as of 14:38, 10 January 2024

Other languages:

Search Engine Optimisation (often abbreviated to SEO) refers to the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a Website from search engines. A site that has been optimised according to SEO practices is said to be Search Engine Friendly (often abbreviated to SEF).

The main article about SEO is Making your site Search Engine Friendly, which lists steps that lead to a better search engine ranking.

A somewhat important SEO technique that also helps your users is using Search Engine Friendly URLs.

For more articles and information:

See the Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs.


Getting started

Troubleshooting

Advanced SEO

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