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Joomla 1.5 SEO Improvements

August 16, 2007 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment

You may have noticed on the Joomla dev blog months ago that search engine friendly URL’s have been incorporated into the Joomla core.

I was going to write up a brief blog post about this, but saw that pathos-seo.com has already done a great post about it showing the various options available.

Apart from now being to create links like:

www.yoursite.com/index.php/category/articletitle
or
www.yoursite.com/category/articletitle

there was also the stealth addition of an important feature for page titles.

tag is the most important contributer to SERP. An annoyance in 1.0.X was that article titles were always appended to your site wide (global config) title. The site wide title was also the one that appeared on the home page. This would lead to some very long titles for your pages. Just look at the blue bar on this page to see what I mean.Your web page title as in the

Now, the page title of an interior page will overwrite the global sitewide title.No more long strings of text!

Head on over to pathos-seo.com and have a read!

Which reminds me, I *must* get around to that blogroll…

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