Hi guys! Today we are going to discuss an important part of web design world – how to optimize your website for search engines. In other words how to make sure users can find you online and your web site is generating business and bringing money in the bank.
An important part of any search engine optimization (SEO) is your website’s title, description and keywords. Although Google claims that their web page crawlers do not crawl web pages by keywords due to a lot of spam in the past years, you still want to make sure you have the right keywords for many other different reasons.
So, as ACreative’s client your website is designed on Joomla 1.5, Joomla 1.6 or Joomla 1.7. There are very slight differences in the Admin panel but not many. We are going to take Joomla 1.7 as anexample. Joomla 1.7 has a Global Configuration area:
- Login into your Admin panel with your Username and Password
- Go to Top admin panel and click on Site
- Then click on Global Configuration
There you will find 4 tabs with the following options:
1. Site – here you can change all basic site settings such as site description, keywords, meta data and SEO options. You can also put your site offline and set the offline message from here.
2. System – while most of the settings in the system tab are rather advanced, you should definitely pay attention to two of them:
Cache Settings
Set it to On – Progressive Caching if you’d like maximum caching and fastest Joomla.
Set it to On – Conservative if you’d like to disable modules caching.
In any case there is cache time in minutes. During this time changes may not appear because cached copies will be served to the viewers. The image below demonstrates how Cache option looks in Joomla 1.5
Session Settings
This is the timeframe during which you will stay logged in your Joomla even if you are inactive. Increase it if you are annoyed by being logged out too often from your web site.
3. Server – most of the settings here should be automatically configured during the installation. You might want to change the Location Settings if you are in a different time zone though. This will help you when the published date of your articles is incorrect or when you receive Joomla notifications with invalid date.
4. Permissions – By default you should change nothing in the Permissions for a standard site. These functions are rather meant for sites with complex structure and multiple user levels.
If you have any difficulties optimizing your website feel free to email hello@acreative.ca or call 778.991.3593.
ACreative is Vancouver web design and marketing company specializing in web design and SEO.
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