Starting an Article money site with Adsense; For SEO/SEM purposes do you recommend that Joomla template be used as a sites framework and foundation out of the box?

If so, what plugins would be helpful?
If not, why?

Thanks!

Honestly you'd be better off with wordpress. I ran Joomla on my sites for a while but it just can't simply beat wordpress, especially for an article based site.

I'm not too sure what you're asking, if you want to know how to optimize site links follow these quick instructions

Code:

 http://www.joomlaseo.net/Joomla/SEO/Joomla-1.5-Search-Engine-Friendly-URLs.html

And you can use this module to put your adsense frames around your site

Code:

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/ads-a-affiliates/google-ads/5549

Hi Shooter, why cant we use Custom HTML module for adding google ads? Thats much more easier.

Originally Posted by Shooter

I'm not too sure what you're asking, if you want to know how to optimize site links follow these quick instructions

Code:

 http://www.joomlaseo.net/Joomla/SEO/Joomla-1.5-Search-Engine-Friendly-URLs.html

And you can use this module to put your adsense frames around your site

Code:

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/ads-a-affiliates/google-ads/5549

Originally Posted by trendy

Hi Shooter, why cant we use Custom HTML module for adding google ads? Thats much more easier.

If you want you can I just use that module because it was just a matter of adding my publisher ID, it also allows me to block various IPs. If you find it easier to use a custom module then do so

if your using joomla and wanted to use SEO components with it the link below might be helpful to you:

HTML Code:

http://joomlaautoblog.info/component/option,com_rokdownloads/Itemid,4/id,58/view,folder/

if you want to use joomla for adsense, these downloadables in this next link could be helpful (module positions):

HTML Code:

http://joomlaautoblog.info/component/option,com_rokdownloads/Itemid,4/id,38/view,folder/

Now, if you want to have some adsense within the content of the article, read this short ebook by joomlaspan:

HTML Code:

 http://joomlaautoblog.info/component/option,com_rokdownloads/Itemid,4/id,72/view,folder/

And if you want to hit thanks to those who in some way or another helped you, you may want to give a few second of your time to click thanks to them... and me...

Good tainted!

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And of course you can use CUSTOM HTML for your scripts. (IMPORTANT: You just need to SET your EDITOR to NONE so it won't scrape the scripts.)

I have been using Joomla about 6 years and WordPress about 1 year. The differences among them are:

1. Joomla can do everything what WP can do, but WP can't do the same things what Joomla do.

2. Joomla has a complex structure and slower than Wordpress. WP is more faster.

3. Both of them flexible.

4. Joomla is harder to learn compared to WP, but more powerfull (my opinion).

5. Wp has fewer components but will be better.

bla bla bla..

If you are new at coding or don't have any exp. and are planning to built a article based site like a blog, use Wordpress.

- Use All in One SEO

But if you want to use Joomla you don't need much component, modules or plugin.

- Use Multi Ads plugin to show Adsense in contents.
- Use HTML module to show Adsense anywhere in Joomla expect articles.
- Apply common SEO settings and set all metas manual.