Tuesday, September 27, 2011

SEO Tips for Joomla Websites

It is always good to have a Joomla or Drupal or any other CMS website rather than just a PHP or ASP or just html for that matter.
This will not only give greater user experience in terms of managing the content of a website but also promotes websites in an SEO perspective and improves the ranks on Search Engines providing a quick page rank to the website.

So, do try your hands on building your website on CMS and also promoting it through simple SEO Tools and techniques.

Here are Top 10 tips to SEO Joomla or any CMS based website:

  1. Whenever you are deciding the title of your article, you need to keep in mind that this tittle will be in the tittle tag of Joomla and moreover in in-site links. So it is very important to choose the title of article very carefully, keeping the trends of search engine in mind.
  2. Use anchor text in your article as inbound links using the keywords which you want to be in ranked in search engine ranking results.
  3. Try to get more and more external sites links to web page of your website. But always keep the quality in order to increase the page-rank of web page of your website. For that, create quality content web page with help of Joomla to get bound links.
  4. It is better if the age of site is more, so keep extending your domain registration because registration of spam sites is not done for longer period and having higher age of your website increases trust on website and helps increasing page rank also.
  5. Never forget the link popularity within the website. Use in-site links to navigate from your one webpage to another. You can use site map for that in your home page. If there are so many web pages in your website, then that will also increase your page rank.
  6. This is good if you get so many inbound links from other website to your web page but you need to assure that you are getting qualitative inbound links. Qualitative links means links from external website having high page rank and link from related field also.
  7. Keywords of your content are very useful. It can increase the page rank of your web page. For that, write the quality content and then find out the keyword density in your content. From keyword density, pick up top two or three words and add them to the meta keywords.
  8. Smaller sites usually have higher ranking in Google but generally, size of file is not responsible for ranking in search engines. Always optimize the images you have in your website. 
  9. When you are working in Joomla and want your website to be search engine friendly, make use of clean URL with few parameters.
  10. There comes error pages like 404 or file not found, in your screen. It happens when connection does not build up with the destined server and displays 404 error. Mostly people forget about this error page. Error pages should always be utilized by placing text links to site pages.
These are few tips for working with a CMS website and put your website in the higher ranking of search engine. Utilize these tips to get your website in higher ranking in search engines and increase your page rank also.