Joomla - SEO
One of my favorite SEO sites, SEOmoz has a user written article about how to make Joomla more search engine friendly. This is a great read for anyone that is using Joomla and has experienced SEO problems with Joomla.
There are multiple problems with Joomla from a SEO perspective:
- Dynamic URLs - I’ve run into this problem before at work. The problem with our URLs is you can get to the same page multiple ways and our breadcrumb navigation is essentially in the URL, so many of our pages can have multiple URLs diluting the SE relevance for each page. In Joomla’s case, URLs aren’t keyword rich, and instead are assigned cryptic and random numbers.
- Headline Tags - Out of the box, Joomla doesn’t allow header tags (<h1>), which are a key component of on page SEO.
- Meta Data -Again, out of the box Joomla doesn’t allow the customization of the meta data, such as title tags (very important), description, and keywords.
I’m sure there are more, but those are the ones that I have come across in my limited experience with Joomla. It is comforting to see there are solutions for dealing with these issues