Optimization of joomla! system for SEO optimization

Joomla! is a set of content management systems that have received multiple awards (contents Management System, CMS). joomla! uses Php+mysql database development to run on a variety of platforms such as Linux, Windows, OS, Solaris, and so on. joomla! In addition to news/article management, document/Picture management, site layout settings, template/theme management, and other basic functions. It can also be expanded through the thousands of Plug-ins it provides: E-commerce and shopping cart engine, forum and chat software, calendar, blog software, directory classification management, advertising management system, electronic newspapers, data and reporting tools, periodical subscription services.

Joomla is currently the latest stable version of the 1.5.6 version, the Chinese version can be downloaded to the joomla.org.tw. The downloaded installation package is actually a compressed file. After decompression to get several folders and files, the total number of files reached more than 2,800.

Joomla is a Web program and must be uploaded to the server to run. If you want to try Joomla on your personal computer (PC), you must build a local test server on your PC. And because Joomla uses the PHP language, your server must be PHP space. Joomla's operation is also inseparable from the SQL database, so your server must have MySQL. The most effective performance of the Linux+apache+php+mysql platform.

Joomla, like other CMS, is to support the separation of content and style-that is, the appearance of the site can be casually replaced. Because Joomla uses a template (template) to control the appearance of the site, by adjusting the structure of the template and editing the CSS style sheet file corresponding to the template, we can change the appearance of the site. In the tens of thousands of Joomla sites around the world, you see a different style of appearance, but the core is the same. In addition, Joomla every upgrade of the kernel, will be released for the old version of the upgrade patch, so the core file upgrade is also very convenient.

Joomla has built the article system, news system, FAQ system, links and contact person functions. If you build a personal web site, the article System with blog style display, you can do a blog column-although such a blog function is very weak. Other features Joomla does not own. Joomla is superior in that it supports Third-party extensions (Extensions). With these extensions, Joomla can further build a forum, message book, wiki, blog (real blog, more formal than the method described above), download systems, video clips, online stores, photo albums, recruitment information, housing leasing, Yellow Pages directory and so on. In Joomla official expansion library (extensions.joomla.org) inside, there are already more than 3640 kinds of expansion, the following will be the expansion of Joomla and template version of the introduction and summary.

In foreign countries with joomla! is a very popular site procedures, but in China is not very popular, and about joomla! search engine optimization (SEO) is less. Let's take a closer look at how to optimize SEO for joomla!:

1. wordpress SEO optimization For people who know that WordPress seo plug-ins a lot, so when we start to optimize the joomla! can not help but remember: joomla! have similar SEO plug-ins? Is the search Engine friendly URL ' s (SEF) plug-in, which can implement URL rewriting, rewritten as a static URL. This plug-in is perfect, optimized site can be quickly indexed by search engines, but because of the special Chinese environment, this plugin in the handling of Chinese title and tag and other aspects of the time may appear a little mistake, but does not hinder its application. In addition you can also try Artio Joomsef this plug-in, is also a very good plug-in, only temporarily does not support the Chinese path.

2. Simplify and optimize the page. SEO has always been the purpose of simple as far as possible, without affecting or hardly affect the site function and customer experience based on. jooomla! pages may be a bit too complicated, so we can consider shutting down some of these features, such as the Pdf,print button, to make the page concise and to avoid duplication of content, since PDFs can be viewed as cloned versions of HTML.