Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips for Joomla1.5

Search engine optimization is a key element of online business, and today I am going to reveal the secret of Search Engine Optimization with Joomla 1.5

Joomla, which is one of the most popular and self optimized CMS, comes with many paid and free extensions. However, to make Joomla fully SE Optimized and SEF (I’m doing it at zero cost) please follow these guidelines and make your Joomla website SEF and SERP winner.

One of the most reported issues with Joomla 1.5 websites that they have duplicate meta descriptions in search engines.  Majority of the data entry persons or webmasters are not aware of this issue which leads to their website being placed at lower ranks in search engines.

• Please open head.php located at (yourjoomlawebsite.com\libraries\jomla\document\html\renderer\head.php) in edit mode Find (Ctrl+ F):

  $strHtml .= $tab.'<meta name="description" content="'.$document->getDescription().'" />'.$lnEnd;
  $strHtml .= $tab.'<title>'.htmlspecialchars($document->getTitle()).'</title>'.$lnEnd;</li>
   <li> 

  
  Replace With:

  $doc_desc=htmlspecialchars($document->getTitle()).". ".$document->getDescription();
  $strHtml .= $tab.'<meta name="description" content="'.$doc_desc.'" />'.$lnEnd;
  $strHtml .= $tab.'<title>'.htmlspecialchars($document->getTitle()).'</title>'.$lnEnd;
  $strHtml .= $tab.'<meta name="title" content="'.htmlspecialchars($document->getTitle()).'" />'.$lnEnd;
  

• Please install the following joomla extensions
  SC Meta – Section Category Meta Manager:
  This extension actually enhances the scope of optimization of your website; it gives you the power to edit meta tags of Joomla sections and categories, generally, by default you don’t have access to edit meta tags of sections and category.
  
  SEO Boost:
  This plugin will add a small code if anyone copies and pastes your content; this plugin will automatically give your website credit with a back link. This technique is used as advanced level link building; it’s much more powerfull than any other link population techniques such as directory submissions, link baiting, reciprocal link building etc because it saves the time and money you would otherwise spend on link building.
  Social Widgets:
  This module helps your visitors to share you content with a single click.
• Add Google Analytics tracking code and Google Webmaster tools to keep track of your website.
• Pick some of the high traffic keywords and generate catchy content.
• Share your content using social bookmarking websites and start getting organic traffic from search engines.

I follow these practices and get amazing SEO results, with no meta duplication, no crawler errors.