Joomla SEO
Joomla is considered as the most enhanced content management system in the modern era but it is not SEO friendly by default. You have to work on the search engine optimization of the Joomla website in order to make it rank well on the search engines. If you have a Joomla website then you can easily get your website on the top ranking by making good and proper on-page optimization of your Joomla website. Give below are some tips on Joomla SEO;
Make your URL(s) SEO friendly; as depicted above Joomla website’s page links are not very friendly so you have to make them friendly to SE(s) yourself. To make this job easier you can install plugin “ Joomla SEF” on your website and activate it by going to Global configuration. This is the easiest way to simplify the whole process.
Add Title of each page; in Joomla website you don’t get direct access to HTML coding provided that you are using a pre-designed Joomla theme or link structure. However, if it is not pre-designed you can add on titles yourself in the HTML by going to menu manager for this go to menu bar options and all items will be displayed click Home and add title in the respective position and save it. Adding title is very necessary as it will help your website getting indexed on the search engine plus makes a search engine understand about the content. For every page of your website you will be using the title, it would not be done by default in fact you have to follow the same process for editing, adding, or modify the titles of your Joomla website.
Add Meta keywords and description; this is also very important for the promotion of your website, in order to make any webpage of your Joomla website SEO friendly you ought to work on each page. Selecting the relevant keywords and writing down the 160 words long Meta description. Most people make one mistake they put the same description for every page of the Joomla website, this practice is very bad as per SEO point of view. Meta description weights more than your Meta keywords in SEO, given this you should have to produce a new and relevant description according to the content of webpages and insert them by clicking on the “editing” option on the left side of the post or article. As far as Meta keywords are concerned you need to put only 3 keywords that are also present in the content and are frequently used within paragraphs of the article.
