Joomla! Documentation™

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.

See also:

• Beginners: Address Search Engine Optimisation
• Search Engine Optimisation

Joomla specific SEO / SEF tricks:

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.

" ... edit configuration.php as var $live_site = 'http://www.mysite.com' "

Note that default configuration.php is var $live_site = ''

Posted by juanparati

Add a static text in the <title>

Open the file: libraries/joomla/document/html/renderer/head.php

Search for the next piece of code:

$strHtml .= $tab.'<title>'.htmlspecialchars($document->getTitle()).'</title>'.$lnEnd;

Add your statict text for example:

$strHtml .= $tab.'<title> All about Canada - '.htmlspecialchars($document->getTitle()).'</title>'.$lnEnd;

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 ":", "-", "$", etc for the title.