Archive for the ‘Search Engine Optimisation’ Category

SEO Tip for Joomla

June 24th

Joomla is a fantastic content management system (CMS). It is one of the most widely used CMS systems in the world.

With all the good, does come some bad. Joomla in its default state isn’t the most search engine friendly CMS. The URLs that it creates from the system have variables and values passed through them. This is all well and good for the system but means nothing for a regular browser and in the lines of keywords for search engines.

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Internal Linking

June 24th

Internal linking within a web site can mean a few things. Internal links play a crucial part in making sure that all the pages in a site are crawled and indexed by Google and providing lots of relevant content for the search engines and for your site visitors.

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Pinging Web Services in Joomla

June 24th

A lot of people use Joomla as a blog. Now compared to other blogging applications out there it is very powerful, but it is missing a few key features here and there.

The key feature that I’d like to talk about is ping services for Joomla.

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Tagging and Tag Clouds

June 24th

Tagging became popular with the growth of Web 2.0 sites over the last few years. You may see on some sites such as Technorati, Del.icio.us or Flickr having these tags implemented throughout their systems.

Tagging allows users within these networks to categories information with specific keywords. It makes it easier to find images, music or any type of information or media that is tagged with particular keywords. (more…)

Semantic Web Design

June 24th

This week’s search engine optimisation tip is going to be about semantic web layouts and how they can help with the optimisation of a website. This is a a very good technique that I use for a lot of my clients. Completely removing all of the design aspects from the website template and then optimizing content and heading tags in the body works wonders and is a fantastic basis to start working on a search engine campaign.

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