- Joomla! 1.5 SEO
- Joomla! 1.5 SEO
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- Preface
- 1. Developing your SEO and Keyword Strategy
- 2. Optimizing Site Structure
- Optimizing your site structure for SEO
- Using sections and categories to create structure
- Create a better-optimized structure with keywords
- Improving your site's usability for users and search engines
- Improve your menu structure for SEO
- Why a sitemap component is essential for search engines
- Submitting your sitemap to search engines
- Using the robots.txt file to guide Search Engine Robots
- Summary
- Optimizing your site structure for SEO
- 3. Improve Joomla! SEO with the Joomlatwork SEF Patch
- 4. How to Write Keyword-rich Articles
- 5. Joomla! Blogging and RSS Feeds
- 6. Create Search Engine Friendly URLs with sh404SEF
- 7. The Importance of Good SEO Joomla! Templates
- 8. Why Speed is Important in SEO
- 9. Tracking and Tracing to Improve Your Web Site
- Looking at your options
- Using your own separate AWStats
- Getting your statistics for free
- Getting free site analysis from StatCounter and Google Analytics
- Looking at your StatCounter stats
- Don't count your own visits
- Looking at StatCounter information and graphs
- How to analyze Google Analytics
- How to select a different time span
- Summary
- Looking at your options
- 10. How to get Incoming Links
- A. A Joomla! Case Study in SEO
- B. Joomla! robots.txt and .htaccess
In this chapter you have learned about the sh404SEF component and why you need it. You also saw that there are a lot more improvements that sh404SEF makes than just creating short and better SEF URLs. Using each of the following options:
- Using the best options for metadata
- Creating and using special meta tags such as title, description, and keywords
- Creating special redirects for moved or Non-SEF URLs
This will give your site the power to do even better in the search engines. In the next chapter we will also look at a better 404 page that can be edited from within the sh404SEF component, and in the Appendix B you will find several .htaccess examples that can help you get this component working.
Using sh404SEF and setting the configuration right will give your site the something extra that it needs to outrank your competitors. However, it is not a miracle component that will boost your site without even working on your content. Writing good keyword rich articles and titles is up to you, but you will atleast have a place for them from where they can be picked up by the search engines.
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