Joomla is a free and open-source content management system, which is used in over 30 million websites, with over 200,000 community users and has endless amounts of extensions. This renowned platform offers a vast array of easy-to-use and free extensions that will enable you to optimize your website quickly and make it search engine friendly, faster. In this blog post, I will introduce you to five free and remarkable Joomla extensions with which you can improve the search ranking of your website easily.
An Overview
JoomSEF is a powerful SEO extension that helps you to generate search engine friendly (SEF) URLs for your Joomla website with great ease. Search engines prefer to those web-pages, which have simple and keyword-rich URLs but not those with URLs consisting of meaningless words and phrases. This extension not only makes your URLs search engine friendly but also makes them comprehensible to humans too that boosts your visitor numbers. The JoomSEF extension is an absolute must-have for anyone running a website based on Joomla platform.
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An Overview
Tag Meta is a powerful extension, which is widely used to manage the meta-information of a website efficiently, in this way it greatly improves website positioning in searching result list. With the help of this tool, users can easily set title tag and meta tag description, keywords, author, robots, content rights and external reference. In addition to this, this extension also supports for macros that means the user can generate meta-information dynamically for each webpage. This extension comes with support for an ontology database of synonyms, which allows generating and adding new synonyms of existing keywords automatically in any webpage.
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An Overview
SEOSimple is considered as one of the best Joomla SEO extensions and it automatically generates description meta-tags by pulling text from the content to help with SEO. For the best SEO results, it is quite important that your meta-descriptions, which are the snippet that appears below the blue link in Google search, contain text that is relevant to each webpage’s contents. Filling in descriptions for every page can be a tough task, which is why Joomla experts incorporate this extension into every website they build. This extension automatically uses a chunk of text from the top of each webpage as its meta-description. In addition to this, downloading and installing SEOSimple takes no more than 2 minutes, but it could save you hours in the long-run.
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An Overview
Statistics have shown that a website that contains sitemap has a higher ranking on various search engines as compared to the one that lacks it. Sitemap is a list of the pages on your website and creating it helps any search engine to know about all the pages on your website, including URLs that may not be discoverable by search engines’ normal crawling process. After installing Xmap, you can stay stress-free about the generation of a well-defined sitemap for your site. This Joomla extension automatically generates an easy-to-interpret sitemap for your website based on the structure of your website’s menus. Further, this extension also shows some statistical information for each sitemap such as last visit date, number of links generated on the last visit and number of visits.
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An Overview
EFSEO is an SEO extension (consisting of a backend component and a system plugin) for Joomla that helps you to control all important metadata. Metadata is descriptive information about a particular object, data set, or resource, including how it is formatted, and by whom and when it was collected. EFSEO extension makes handling of the metadata quite easy, as with this extension you can change and add meta information (description, title, keywords, generator and robots) without difficulty at the front end. The best part of this extension is it remains active on every page of a Joomla installation and may be used correspondingly. Further, this extension does not change or delete given Joomla data and the original data is used until you alter them with the extension.
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I recommend you to analyze your website prior to installing a Joomla SEO extension. An organized extension installation will definitely work in your favor and immensely help you to improve your visitors count and sales. Last, but not least, do keep in mind that website search engine optimization is not a one-time activity; it is a constant work in progress. If you want your SEO efforts to be a success than you should measure it on a regular basis.
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