Basic Joomla! SEO/SEF Settings:
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Absolute Beginners Guide to Joomla!, Novices and What is Joomla all redirect to here:
http://docs.joomla.org/Beginners#Addres ... timization
How to setup SEF URLs:
http://docs.joomla.org/SEF_URLs_in_Joomla!_1.5
IIS6 and SEF URLs using Joomla 1.5x:
http://docs.joomla.org/IIS6_and_SEF_URL ... oomla_1.5x
Configure and Troubleshooting SEF URLs:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2300167/Jooml ... t-SEF-URLs
Fixing Broken Site When SEF is Enabled:
http://docs.joomla.org/SEO#Fixing_Broke ... is_Enabled
Change SEF suffix from .html to .htm:
http://docs.joomla.org/SEO#Change_defau ... ml_to_.htm
SEF extensions:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... gement/sef
Add Content Metadata:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... a-metadata
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Download documents:
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How to setup SEF URLs (.pdf):
http://forum.joomla.org/download/file.php?id=66455
Configure and troubleshoot SEF URLs (.odt):
http://help.joomla.org/ghop/feb2008/tas ... ised-1.odt
How to remove "WWW" from your Domain Name and Why it matters(.odt):
http://help.joomla.org/ghop/feb2008/tas ... omain6.odt
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Other SEO Guides:
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Google SEO Starter Guide available in 40 languages:
http://googlewebmastercentral.[URL banned]. ... in-40.html
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Basic Tutorials
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What is SEO (Search Engine Optimization) ?
- http://www.google.com/support/webmaster ... swer=35291
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization
What is SERP (Search Engine Result Page) ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_results_page
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Google SEO Guidlines
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Google Webmaster checklist
http://www.google.com/webmasters/checklist/
Anatomy of a search result
http://www.google.com/support/webmaster ... wer=159206
URLs in Sitemaps
A Sitemap file can contain no more than 50,000 URLs and be no larger than 10MB when uncompressed. If your Sitemap is larger than this, break it into several smaller Sitemaps. These limits helps ensure that your web server is not overloaded by serving large files to Google.
Resource : http://www.google.com/support/webmaster ... wer=156184
Sitemap don't look accurate ? (Submitted url vs Indexed url in Google Webmaster)
http://www.google.com/support/webmaster ... swer=80488
Sitemap FAQs
http://googlewebmastercentral.[URL banned]. ... -faqs.html
How often does Google crawl the web?
http://www.google.com/support/webmaster ... swer=34439
Google has "ignored" Meta keyword
Explanation from Matt Cuts - Google team :
http://googlewebmastercentral.[URL banned]. ... a-tag.html
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Other tutorials
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Put custom Meta Keyword and Meta Description in section and category
Joomla’s default SEO doesn’t have feature for create custom meta keyword and meta description in each section and category, we can use this extension for fix this issue :
SC Meta - Section Category Meta Manager : http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... adata/7559 With this extension, we can avoid duplicate meta title and meta description on Google webmaster
Get rid of ID in section, category and article in URL
HP Router : http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/5973/details
Change or Remove Site title (for default is Welcome to the Frontpage)
There are a lots of questions about this topic
http://docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_remov ... 2_title%3F
How to check Nofollow and Dofollow backlink status ?
If we use Firefox browser, we can use this add-on :
NoDoFollow : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5687
Redirect from Non-WWW to WWW
Use .htaccess
Put this code :
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
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RewriteEngine On
Use extension
SEO Canonicalisation Plugin : http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... adata/5355
Official Webmaster help center site
- Google : http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/
- Yahoo : http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/siteexplorer/
- MSN / Live / Bing : http://help.live.com/help.aspx?mkt=en-u ... webmasters
