Beginner's Guide

your click through rate is (i.e. whether or not users will actually feel compelled enough to click on your
page link). Meta descriptions shouldn't be longer than 160 characters.
Figure 4: SEO Meta Descriptions in Search Engine
Joomla enables you to add meta descriptions to all of your pages – even when you are creating a
page that displays a whole category of articles. You can manage this process on two levels – at the menu-
item level (for category pages) and at the article level (inside the text editor where you write your article)
(Figure 3).
Easy Image Titles for SEO
Figure 5: Image Titles for SEO
Search bots are not able to see images correctly. This is where the “alt” tags or image descriptions/
titles come into play. They help make your images searchable, ultimately helping with your SEO. Joomla
provides you with an easy-to-fill image dialog box
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, where you are conveniently prompted to include a
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