5 Best SEO Tips For Joomla CMS
Joomla is one of the most powerful Content Management Systems in the world. More than 10,000 popular websites are made using Joomla CMS. You can make the best website using the Joomla CMS but there is no use of making a best website if it is not properly search engine optimized.
The major drawback with the Joomla CMS is that it is not SEO (search engine optimization) friendly. You need to use the right SEO tools and tactics for your Jommla based website to get more and more unique visitors and to make more money. Choosing a web-hosting for your site always plays an important role for SEO. Even if you have a greatest possible SEO strategies in your pocket and you are successfully applying them, still your blog might not achieve its deserving rankings unless you have reliable hosting. Joomla CMS is no exception for that. So, if you are serious about SEO, it is suggested to make use of best Joomla hosting solutions available out there.
Fortifying the Joomla website with right SEO extension can give you the best results. However there are many, but we have sorted out the best SEO tips for Joomla which can bring your website in main streamline.
Below are 5 Joomla SEO tips which can get more targeted traffic to your website
- Try using the SEO friendly features available in Joomla CMS. Joomla CMS is not SEO friendly but have some features which may help you in making your website well optimized. Have a look at the Joomla SEO tools and look which one of them will bring good to your website. The best SEO extension being used in Joomla based websites these days is the SEO friendly URL. You can set the SEO friendly URL just by clicking the button of SEO settings.
- There is a repository of Joomla SEO extensions and all you need to do is to explore the custom plugins and extensions. There are some plugins in the repository which are specifically designed or SEO and metadata usage. You can also see the feedbacks and ratings with all these SEO plugins. These feedbacks can help you select the best one. Some of the most popularly used SEO plugins in Joomla CMS are SEOSimple, sh404SEF and JoomSEO.
- Joomla CMS has over 6,000 free plugins in the directory. Do not forget to check the other categories of plugins. It is not necessary that you will find the SEO related plugins in the SEO category. Some extensions like in-site search, social media extensions, and site map builders help in making the website search engine friendly but they are not found in the SEO category. Some more plugins which create a big impact on search engines are AceSearch J!Redirect 301 plugin, and XMap.
- Apart from the available plugins in the Joomla directory you can also use the community support to get more and more targeted visitors to your website. Joomla CMS is an open source content management systems and thus you can use the communities like, forums, blogs, and social networking websites to make your website available at more places.
- Last but not the least; don’t rely completely on the Joomla functionality. You can also use the general and commonly used SEO practices to bring your website on high rank. Using the long tail keywords and tagging the blogposts are two most used SEO tips.
If you are looking or a successful website you need to use the best content management system like Joomla. This post migh be useful for you if you have a basic knowledge of how Google and other search engines rank pages but aren’t yet an SEO expert.
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Siddartha is a Part-Time blogger who blogs at GadgetCage and also started a Joint Venture WP Skool. He is a freelancer, SMO expert and His areas of Interests were SEO, Social Media analysis, testing and coding.Subscribe
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Hi Sidduz! When I read the number 5 I think that this is the best tip from the list that you have given (“Last but not the least; don’t rely completely on the Joomla functionality”). the Internet and the computing culture and environment is vast and can be complicated so it is still best not to rely on Joomla alone. You encourage your readers to seek other tools that can help them in their SEO tasks. What you did is free the mind of purist Joomla users. encouraging them to try other avenues won’t hurt them but may help in developing their SEO skills. Thanks and Advance Happy new Year and more power to netchunks.com!
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Sidduz!
Joomla may best free CMS for now,but its components are turning of commercial. Of those 6000, at least one third will be for j1.5.
So if we are to construct a professional we have to spend some $$ atleast to buy some components.
If not than sh404SEF, top of the line and editor pick component.
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I have not tried Joomla as I am still learning wordpress. But taking experience of all things happening around is a Good practice. I too go with 5th point as only on page SEO is not good but we need to apply all seo techniques for better ranking.
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This is very correct that if we make a site which is not SEO optimised then there is no benefit. Good to know about SEO for Joomla.
Hi,
Thank for sharing this nice info which is really so useful and i impressed by this because this tool have many plug-ins which will be definitely prove good to use.
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SEO is very important factor in building website,joomla is not SEO friendly.But it offer lot of plugin which show in joomla 5 SEO tips by using this we make a SEO friendly website.
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All 5 tips are very nice and tools are wonderful.
joomla sh404SEF is probably the best SEF/SEO patch. But its not completely perfect. SEF urls are very important for SEO. Joomla 1.0 and 1.5 is the ability of certain limited native SEF URLS
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I have never used Joomla but still this will still going to help me in future when I will be needed to wok Joomla.. Thanks Siddartha for this post..!!
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Hi Sidduz!Nice Post I am new here but will be visiting more often as you have done a good job.I consider your effort for this article is indeed valuable
Thanks for the tips as it is very useful to read about the ways to modify the site and to promote them according to the cms they have been worked on.
I’ve worked on SEO for several websites built in Joomla, and I know from experience that the plugins make it quite simple. Joomla is a great platform if you’re looking for something a bit more scalable than WordPress. Good post!
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One of my favorite Content Management System is joomla
We get good support and features only when we check some premium extensions of it. Free extensions are just for sake and you cannot entirely depend on that as it may give trouble when the core receives upgrade.
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I will try to apply these tips when i start working with joomla. But I just do not feel like leaving wordpress!!
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Great suggestions. I’m very interested in getting int Joomla when I’m ready to develop my own design for my professional web portfolio. I’m curious, I currently have a WordPress bloginstalled on my professional portfolio. Would I be able to continue to have that blog in WordPress if I switched to Joomla?
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Thanks for the information . But what about wordpress? I’ve read a article where wordpress is told to be best supporting platform for SEO ? can u help me in deciding ?
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I personally don’t work Joomla, but I have heard that it is really hard to optimize it to make SEO friendly. I think this article will be very useful for my friends who work with Joomla.
I prefer WordPress to Joomla. Compared to Joomla, WordPress is far better, easy-to-use & SEO-friendly.
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Latest Joomla doesn’t need any 3rd party SEO component and plugins. It is really SE friendy, however you’ve made a good point to choose reliable hosting. I would suggest to use VPS or Dedicated server for Joomla.
Nice tips. Efforts worth appreciation. I personally recommend the WP as its regular user for couple of years. However, there must be some substitute to everything you have or need. Thanks for sharing nice tips.
I think joomla is a powerful web designing software & useful to seo (search engine optimization).Latest Joomla doesn’t need any 3rd party SEO component and plugins. It is really SE friendy, however you’ve made a good point to choose reliable hosting. I would suggest to use VPS or Dedicated server for Joomla.