Category: SEO

Like most other companies developing professional Joomla! business templates, we have added several features to our templates that help your webpages rank better in the search engines. One of these SEO features is called 'source ordering'. In the Joomla community this feature is often refered to as '2-1-3 source ordering' where … Read more

As I was looking through yesterday's visitor statistics, I noticed a visitor that used an interesting search query: "lost google rankings when i transfered to joomla". As a search engine specialist, I know that switching from one CMS (Content Management System) to another is very unlikely to be a stand alone cause for dropped … Read more

As a search engine specialist I spend a quite some time convincing people that the mythical PageRank isn't as important as it used to be. To make my own life easier (and perhaps yours as well) I've collected several articles on the internet that show why PageRank can be pretty much ignored from now on. Image credits: Felipe … Read more

With the release of Joomla 1.6.0, two new SEO options are available in the Global Configuration of the Joomla Administrator. This blog will present a short overview of all the available Joomla 1.6 SEO settings, with recommended values for each of the settings. Photo credits: Creativity103 Search Engine Friendly … Read more

Once upon a time, the meta keywords tag was a great way to improve your ranking for the keywords you desired. You just entered you favorite keywords in it and the site started ranking better for that keyword. As you might have guessed, people soon started abusing the keywords tag. Because of this, most of the major search … Read more

A popular topic on the Joomla forum is whether adding a suffix to a URL will affect the rankings in the search engines. My guess would be that the influence of this will be marginal to nonexistent. On the web several arguments are given on the issue of whether to use a suffix or not. Considering the ones listed below I would … Read more