SEO / SEF for Joomla http://www.dart-creations.com Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:50:19 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/tutorials/seo/sef-for-joomla.html#josc11 hi dart, Great job in putting up this website. It groups up a number of technical issues together, which when implimented correctly make all the difference in having a professional joomla site. thanks! Ian Buhagiar Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:42:47 +0100 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/tutorials/seo/sef-for-joomla.html#josc22 Great info, that did \"support\" my first guess on creating my content... The bad thing, i did this H1-H3 at the first time, and thought it was the wrong way, cause joomla had this two special Title/Alias fields and other extensions used this entries... mmh. Then i changed the whole content to this method. Bad idea ;-) Now i have to change them all over again... phew! The good thing: Now i am sure, i am doing it right. CU!!! Maik Kaune Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:00:18 +0100 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/tutorials/seo/sef-for-joomla.html#josc24 Some of the tips in this article can be done by a mambot. This mambot changes the title that your browser shows to reflect the content on the page. It also ads content related keywords and description in your metatags. AND!!! Your titles will use H2,H3 tags :-o I know this sounds to good to be true but I have installed it on my site and it works great!!! You can check it out for yourself... www.joomladesign.info Go to a content page (one of the tutorials for example) and look at the page title :o) Btw... the mambot is called JoomSEO. I love it!!! René webmaster www.joomladesign.info René Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:05:29 +0100 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/tutorials/seo/sef-for-joomla.html#josc33 -> René Many thanks for this great info. Though i am digging deep on the extensions directory... i missed this piece of gold! I changed my current projects contents, before i read your comment... On the next project , i will set it up for sure. TIA! CU Maik Kaune Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:40:22 +0100 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/tutorials/seo/sef-for-joomla.html#josc34 Yes, it does do some of the tips mentioned in this article. But it also seems to litter the title with a whole host of keywords. Search engines (especially Google), will consider that to be keyword spamming and you might be penalised. Be careful when you use it. Remember that the best way of optimizing your site for search engines is quality content and incoming links! Other tweaks which can be done mostly manually are nowadays given little importance by search engines. DART Creations Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:14:30 +0100 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/tutorials/seo/sef-for-joomla.html#josc151 Great infos ! Thanks to all. In my case i am using ARTIOjoomsef, it can offer the same result as sh404SEF. You can change either the order of the page of the site and page name : \" It is good SEO practice to put the page title first in your title tags, and then your site name. Unfortunately, by default, Joomla places the site name first before the page title. To change this, grab a copy of the file /includes/joomla.php Around line number 507, replace this: $this->_head[\'title\'] = $title ? $GLOBALS[\'mosConfig_sitename\'] . \' - \'. $title : $GLOBALS[\'mosConfig_sitename\']; With this: $this->_head[\'title\'] = $title ? $title .\' - \'. $GLOBALS[\'mosConfig_sitename\'] : $GLOBALS[\'mosConfig_sitename\']; From www.chette.com http://www.chette.com/main/content/view/107/ \" Thanks to all. Marwen Marwen Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:39:42 +0100 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/tutorials/seo/sef-for-joomla.html#josc534 Hello, nice article. I wonder how to setup and test SEF URLs in a local environment (before or in the middle of a real production site). I tried sh404... on MAMP / MacOSX and when i activate it... the URLs and pages do not work anymore. Is this \"normal\"? How do you do this? Any clues or suggestions? TIA! rexkramer Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:53:47 +0100 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/tutorials/seo/sef-for-joomla.html#josc537 rexkramer, I use XAMPP, and have figured out a way to use SEF URLs locally. I\'d be glad if you found an update and posted here. DART Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:57:10 +0100 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/tutorials/seo/sef-for-joomla.html#josc737 Hi! I almost forgot where i posted this question ;-) You were using XAMPP on WIN... can you explain your solution or at least how XAMPP is rendering your URLs? How looks or how starts your URL without SEF enabled? Can you give some more details... maybe i am able to deduce somethig from your experiences!? TIA! rexkramer Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:56:18 +0100 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/tutorials/seo/sef-for-joomla.html#josc758 Wooops, there was a slight misspring in that comment. It should\'ve been, I HAVEN\'T figured out a way :) DART Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:48:25 +0100 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/tutorials/seo/sef-for-joomla.html#josc1357 [quote=rexkramer]Hello, nice article. I wonder how to setup and test SEF URLs in a local environment (before or in the middle of a real production site). I tried sh404... on MAMP / MacOSX and when i activate it... the URLs and pages do not work anymore. Is this "normal"? How do you do this? Any clues or suggestions? TIA![/quote] Any news on this??? TIA! rexkramer Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:25:12 +0100 http://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/tutorials/seo/sef-for-joomla.html#josc1468 I used this component on my site [url]http://www.huntingfishingforum.com[/url], it seems to work like a charm. The only con I have to it is it doesn\'t add automatic meta description with major keywords. I wish it did that, would be very nice if it did! Erik Z Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:53:21 +0100