Best Joomla SEO Extensions?
-
My website is a Joomla based website. My designer is good, but I don't think he knows that much about SEO . . . so I doubt if he added any extensions that can assist with SEO. I assume there are some good ones that can help my site.
Does anyone know what/which Joomla extensions are must haves?
-
Thanks! I downloaded the paid version of JoomSEF... the free version includes a link in the footer... kinda tacky for a client's website. The paid version was only $35.57 USD. So... crossing fingers.. here goes nothing!
-
According to CodeCanyon... the Smart SEO plugin is only valid up to Joomla version 2.5 (as of 1 month ago). Looks like JCH Optimize is for only for speed optimization.
Still looking for a good SEO plugin for Joomla. My client does not want to convert to Wordpress (even though they aren't selling any products, just service based org).
-
Hey Shivun,
I've been using the "SmartSEO" plugin for ~2 years and I love it. I think it cost like 10 bucks.. It simply gives you frontend access to edit meta data when you're logged in as superadmin. Saved me countless hours.
I also just this week installed "JCH Optimize" plugin which decreased load time nicely, a common problem when you run a Joomla site with bells and whistles.. The standard GZip and other plugins that do this would always break some part of my site, but JCH had enough options that when I tweaked em just right I reduced load time by about 30% without breaking anything.
Danny
-
Hi Everyone
I see this post regarding the best joomla extensions available on the market, As the post is dated now I thought I'd ask the question. Currently what are the best seo extensions for Joomla? Anything anyone can recommend?
shivun
-
Hi!
I work a lot with Joomla and my company also use Joomla CMS. We have tried several SEO components for Joomla and SH404Sef is without a doubt the best choice. SH404Sef gives you a lot of options to work with. It can be a bit hard in the beginning, but when you learn it you will never change.
-
There's a beta version of sh404sef for joomla 1.6 now (if that's what you're using).
Having said that, if you can move to joomla 1.6 you'll find they've made some effort to make it much more sef than 1.5 - though I did have to do some tweaks to get a canonical tag in there. I'll be using the sh404sef when it's out of beta to avoid fiddling around with menus to create clean urls.
Agree with Damon on the components - if you're using them then check compatibility with whatever SEO extension you use (if you use one that is)
-
Hi Damon,
I have experience with two joomla components for SEO
- SH404sef, Its commercial http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/sef/10134
- Joomsef its Free http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/sef/1063
The most important thing with these components, its to double check compatibility between these components and other components that you have installed. For example Joomsef might not rewrite the urls for Jevents components for example. (this is an example, might not be true)
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
What IS SEO FRIENDLY BEST PRACTICE FOR URLS FILTERED 'TAGGED'
EX: https://www.STORENAME.com/collections/all-deals/alcatel– Tagged "Alcatel", when I run audits, I come across these URLS that give me duplicate content and missing H1. This is Canonical: https://www.STORENAMEcom/collections/all-deals/alcatel Any advice on how to tackle these I have about4k in my store! Thank you
Technical SEO | | Sscha0030 -
Acquired domains for SEO
hi there, For one of our insurance websites we acquired a domain, this domain is going to be redirected to our domain. After some research we discovered the domain we've bought also includes other domains which 301 redirect to specific 'insurance products'. These domains are also included in the deal. But what is the best technical solution for redirecting these specific redirected product domains? They already redirect to the product pages of the domain we've bought, so after redirect this domain, the sub (product) redirected domains will also link to us. It would be like this: A) www.sub-carinsurancesite.nl (301) -> www.domain-we-bought.com/car-insurance -> www.ourdomain.com/car-insurance
Technical SEO | | remkoallertz
B) www.sub-carinsurancesite.nl (301) -> www.ourdomain.com/car-insurance & www.domain-we-bought.com/car-insurance -> www.ourdomain.com/car-insurance etc0 -
Best use of an old domain?
I've discovered that my clients website used to have another domain name, which they still own but don't use. It's doing OK considering its not been used for a few years - almost 6,000 backlinks showing on Majestic. So what's the best way of using this for SEO? I'm presuming some kind of redirecting? A simple redirect of everything on the domain to the new domain index page? Or going trough all the old pages and redirecting them one by one?
Technical SEO | | abisti20 -
Magento technical SEO issues
Hi This is lots of questions and don't expect full answers but if anyone can help or put me in touch with some who can that would be great so here are 3 issues we have from some auditing our site Firstly on pages like https://www.tidy-books.co.uk/shop-with-us/sort-by/price/sort-direction/desc so any pages where there is a sortby the cananoical link doesn't seem to be working correctly. So for here it is https://www.tidy-books.co.uk/shop-with-us/sort-by/price/sort-direction/desc"/> but should be https://www.tidy-books.co.uk/shop-with-us"/> secondly with have a lot of duplicate title tags mainly caused from the blog and the above problem see-> http://prntscr.com/b2t9xe but regarding the blog we have an issue where 2 canonical appearing for example this page
Technical SEO | | tidybooks
https://www.tidy-books.co.uk/blog/page/19/ there are 2 canonical links appearing https://www.tidy-books.co.uk/blog/page/19/"/> we want it to be this
https://www.tidy-books.co.uk/blog/"/> Thirdly
Our mobile usability issues have gone up a lot see- > http://prntscr.com/b2tado
I can see what the issue is that this folder https://www.tidy-books.co.uk/skin/frontend/tidybooks/default/images/ was being crawled by google and contains lots of 'index of' pages. I've disallowed directory in robots.txt as shown here -> http://prntscr.com/b2tbc5 is that correct? any help would be great Just to let you know we use magento v1.7 we use SEO suite ultimate extension and we use fishpigs wordpress extension thanks0 -
Removing extension
Hi there, I have thousands of pages that use the extension .php and thought about cleaning these URLs up for example rather than www.mysite.com/trainers/adidias/samba.php I could have have www.mysite.com/trainers/adidas/samba/ is it worth changing? Currently driving around 1 million visits to the website each month from organic search and slightly concerned it could have a negative impact on my rankings. Thanks for any help.
Technical SEO | | Paul780 -
Trailing Slashes and SEO
Hi, We're currently using a third party blog platform (Blog Engine) on our site and we have a trailing slash issue. I can add as many trailing slashes as I want to the blog's homepage URL, but they don't redirect and our dev guys say this cannot be done with Blog Engine. We're in the process of building our own blog but, in the meantime, I just wanted to know if this will cause an issue? Individual blog posts with trailing slashes are redirected, it's just the homepage where it can't be done. I haven't noticed any traffic going to a blog URL with trailing slashes, and I don't believe any URLs with trailing slashes are being indexed, so should this be OK? Cheers, Lewis
Technical SEO | | PeaSoupDigital0 -
URL change extension to .php from .htm
I am looking at changing the platform of an established (7 years) site to PHP based. Currently most of the URLs have the file extension .htm (“x.com/filename.htm” ) with some URLs being indexed as directory URLs (“x.com/directory/” feeding from “x.com/directory/index.htm”) So I am considering two options A. Changing just file extensions & create 301 redirects, (x.com/samefilename.htm” -> “x.com/samefilename.php”) and for directory URLs (“x.com/samedirectory/index.htm” -> “x.com/samedirectory/index.php”) B. At the same time taking the opportunity to change the file hierarchy to be more user / seo friendly by changing all URLs to directory URLs – this would be a more extensive redirect than just changing the file extension. I am interested in what risks / impact would there be of this and the questions I would like some help with are: Are there any short term risks to rankings with a filename extension change like this? Should an exercise like this be staggered or is it ok to carry out the site-wide change in one go? Does a more extensive filename and structure redirect like in option B above introduce more risk than just changing to the .php extension or would the search engines consider this the same? For the directory URLs do I even need a 301 redirect after changing index.htm to index.php or will the Search engines not even recognise a change (indexed URL will remain the same)? Your opinions on the above questions and any other advice / experience you can share would be much appreciated. Thanks, Adrian.
Technical SEO | | Zilla0 -
How to produce no follow links on my joomla site
Hi i have been reading that if you have links going out of your site then this can damage your site, so i have been trying to find out, how i can do no follow links for some of the affliate sites that i have on my site. I have a couple of adverts on my site and i would like to turn these into no follow links while the rest of my internal links on my page are to stay follow links but in joomla i am not sure how to do this. can anyone please give me some advice
Technical SEO | | ClaireH-1848860