Beginner's Guide

SEO has on-page and off-page elements, which you can review in detail in this very useful

infographic

by searchengineland.com. The great news is that Joomla can help you with both of these

elements, enabling you to build a solid SEO foundation that can be easily extended into a successful

trafﬁc-driven web presence.

SEO FUNCTIONALITIES INCLUDED IN JOOMLA 2.5

SEO-friendly Urls

Figure 1: Figure 1: SEO-friendly Urls

According to Google’s Matt Cutts

, the best website urls consist of not more than 3-5 words. From

that point on, the longer the urls, the less ranking power they will have.

This is how your urls will look once your Joomla site is set up:

http://www.yourdomain/index.php?

option=com_content&view=article&id=8:beginners&catid=19&Itemid=260

And this is how they will look after you have modiﬁed your access.txt

ﬁle and switched on the SEO

url feature, accessible in Joomla’s Global Conﬁguration control panel:

http://www.yourdomain/products/your-product-name

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