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The Joomla CMS has earned a reputation online as both powerful and well-supported by its community of users, making it great tool for SEO optimization. Although the CRM alone does have a number of features that can help to increase the SEO value of your Web page, it’s worth knowing about some of the most popular free plugins available you can use to improve the effectiveness of your search engine optimization. By no means an exhaustive list, here are ten of the most popular plugins among Joomla users.
1. Set Generator Tag
This plugin allows you to modify the default Joomla CMS generator meta tag and make it whatever you want. Using this plugin means you will not have to change templates or the core Joomla files, and your changes will remain even if a new version of the CMS is downloaded since the changes reside in the Set Generator plugin, not Joomla itself.
2. SEOSimple
As the name states, this Joomla SEO plugin is meant to be simple, and its function is to take the starting portion of a page’s text content and apply it to the meta description at the head of the page. Since search engines will often use meta descriptions for SERPS, it is crucial that they have relevant content.
3. SEO Pagination
This easy-to-use plugin lets you give every page on your Web site a unique title, which is great if you have multiple categories, and can help give each page greater strength in overall SEO rankings.
4. JoomSEF
The JoomSEF plugin lets you rewrite your Joomla URLs so that they are more search engine friendly (SEF). These custom URLs can make for a better browsing experience for users and can lead to higher rankings from search engines.
5. J!Redirect 301
This Joomla SEO plugin allows you to easily create 301 redirects so that the only page indexed by search engines will be your main page. All other access requests will be directed to your main site, and 301 is the only type of redirect considered to be search engine friendly.
6. SiteVerify Plugin
SiteVerify adds a simple way to insert HTML Meta tags so that your site can be verified with Google, Live and Yahoo.
7. Website Name
This compact plugin gives you the ability to display your Web site name on the front end, letting you choose if you want it before or after the page title.
8. SEO-Generator
This does what it says – generates SEO keywords and description automatically from text and content.
9. Auto Backlinks
A simple plugin, this automatically pings high-ranking pages for auto backlinks directly to your site.
10. Unicode Slugs SEF
This is a great plugin allowing you to add special characters, accents and capitals in URLs that Google and other sites have no problem searching for.
Honorable Mentions: Easyping, SEO Canonicalisation, Title Manager
An active development environment means Joomla SEO is always evolving, and used correctly, these ten popular plugins can help you get high-quality traffic to your Web site.
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Thanks for the information this was really good
Priya
i used till now the concurrent (wp) because of the plugins. I never found something like that. But now I do not hv reason to not use Joomla. In my next project I will try it. I hope it works better than I used to.
Thx for this post.
Thanks for this, I needed some ways to get my site to rank better and Joomla sometimes makes it difficult. You made it easier!
As for the site map I personaly like xmap
thanks for the comments! Which are you using? which are your favorite?
A few of my designer friends have been raving about the Joomla SEO/SEF components.
thanks for all the plugin tips..especially the seo plugins
Sweet, I was considering going to Joomla for templates but was afraid they wouldn’t have the seo plugins I wanted. Thanks for quelling my fears!
I’ve heard great things about the Joomla SEO/SEF components too, and it’s nice to know they’re so search-engine friendly.
I found that SEO plugins are necessary for your website…thanx for the tips for Joomla, it will really help for my websites.
I didn’t even know most of these SEO plug-ins even existed. I’m gonna go out and get me some of these!
What does it mean to add ‘pint’ to popular search engines?
I think he meant ping, that is a like a call to spider new content to help it get indexed faster.
If you have not yet built your website and you are concerned about SEO do NOT use Joomla!
WordPress all the way. The decent plugins on Joomla! cost money and most of them still suck. On WordPress there are a TON of free plugins and they work well.
SEO & Joomla! are like Oil & Water.
Yeah, I can’t believe how many free plugins WordPress offers, Jason.
It is perfect time to make some plans for the future and it’s time to be happy. I’ve read this post and if I could I wish to suggest you some interesting things or advice. Perhaps you can write next articles referring to this article. I wish to read even more things about it!
Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management
Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.
The biggest problem with Joomla! is that it really is not very search engine friendly. I am using JoomSEO that gives you control over your Titles and other meta tags but it goes even further.