White Hat SEO. Joomla Is A Way To Go.

[ukescuba]

add to that you can make it extremely SEO friendly too with the right know-how

@torque been awol for a few days not been feeling so good hit me up again when you get chance

cheers

jay

 

[Selassie_i]

I'm not to much of a fan of Joomla, I'm more of a Drupal user, however if you are new to the CMS and coding world I would suggest Wordpress. From what I have seen I say Wordpress is easier to optimize for SEO purposes and they also have quite a large community base backing it as well.

 

[Torque09]

Thanks Selassie. Why do you prefer Drupal instead of Joomla?

 

[nossie]

I think joomla is way to "bloated" for simple seo article sites.

 

[webchick11]

The new release of Joomla 1.6 is expected in the fall, 2009. They are working hard to reduce the file bloat by 30%, resulting in faster load times for Joomla sites. Also, they are working on many administration back-end changes.

 

[Torque09]

@ ukeskuba Do you know, what would be the best way to put my Content <div> in the beginning of the code? Is it any extension available to change it faster? Looks like content div is not in the right place; way too far from the beginning of the page.

Thanks in advance.

 

[ukescuba]

I think joomla is way to "bloated" for simple seo article sites.

depends if you write your own templates or not - most commercial templates have in most instances have too much code

you can actually create your own templates with as little as about 25 lines of code and make it much more optimized code wise

@torque best way again is to design your own template and position the div using css - how familiar are you with html/css?

@webchick - they have also got rid of sections and categories and just doing sections - i think that will be a good improvement providing you can still embed subsection titles in the url

hth

 

[hwolfpack6]

I'll stick with WordPress. I put up a site 3 days ago and installed/setup Wordpress, did no backlinking, and haven't even made a post on it, yet I'm sitting pretty at #16.

 

[Torque09]

@Ukescuba Well, I have some HTML/CSS knowledge, but there is one problem I have. Way too much stuff to learn, so just don't have enough time to build my own.

Would you recommend any good templates to use? Seems that most of them have content div in the middle of the page. You are right, there is too much code.

The developers have not built those templates with SEO in mind. LOL

I can clean up the messy code that most of the templates have, but I need your recommendation on how to fix the div issue.

Thanks a lot Ukescuba.

 

[ukescuba]

i believe

alledia.com

has optimized templates, but since i use my own i havent had chance to have a good look over it yet

hth

 

[Torque09]

@ ukescuba I've heard there is a duplicate content problem with Joomla. Would you mind to tell me what is the best solution for that?

 

[ukescuba]

If you want to optimize for SEO use artio joomla sef

and boom it gets rid of the =index.php etc

sh404sef does that and also out of the box sef urls in joomla providing you have mod-rewrite configured on your server and are using a properly configured .htaccess file

artio is actually a paid for component where as the out of the box joomla and sh404sef is free

hth

 

[ukescuba]

@ ukescuba I've heard there is a duplicate content problem with Joomla. Would you mind to tell me what is the best solution for that?

i havent had much of a problem myself with it in the past maybe more so in the future and will have to look more closely

but if you think it is an issue you you can use these either of these plugins:

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/seo-&-metadata/5355/details

or this one

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/seo-&-metadata/7465/details

hth

 

[Torque09]

Thanks ukescuba. I already did some changes to my .htaccess file couple days back. Those plugins do exactly the same things that you can do manually. Anyway thanks a lot.

Yep, you are right to get rid of index.php file you have to enable mode_rewrite and modify htaccess.txt (-> .htaccess + blablabla...)

 

[asoduk]

I like joomla for sites that have a wider scope than wordpress. It seems to work better for corporate sites that have lots of different types of pages: info, forum, products

 

[Torque09]

I like joomla for sites that have a wider scope than wordpress. It seems to work better for corporate sites that have lots of different types of pages: info, forum, products

Yes, that's what I'm looking for. Seems Joomla is a way to go for the full size website, but need some twist to work properly.