7 ingredients to search engine optimisation (SEO) for Joomla

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Presentation for the Sydney Joomla User Group talking about search engine optimisation (SEO), microdata for Joomla and AuthorRank as a influencing factor to your website's rankings.

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7 Ingredients to Search optimisationwith Joomla

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I Produce a Weekly Podcast - http://joomlabe.atAbout Joomla

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Subscribe - search for “Joomla”Itunes, stiTcher, RSS, SoundCloud, @joomlabeat, fb.com/joomlabeat

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1. Domain NamesAh ha! The perfect base!

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Old Domain NamesDomain age! Trust comes with Age

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Keyword Rich Domain NamesHelp enrich your search results, add stuff into the base!

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Use FlippaBuy old domains with age and authority

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2. Title TagFirst thing to Look at

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Keyword InclusiveUse appropriate Keywords, make it obvious

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Don’t Over Do It!Keep it human and readable, too much ruins the base

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Limited to 70 CharactersLooks do matter

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Control your Titles in your Articles1 way

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Control your Titles in your MenusYep! menu manager controls your title tags

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3. Meta tagsDescriptions, Keywords, Canonical URL, Open Graph Tags

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DescriptionGood relevant descriptions to create click throughs

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Limited Description LengthLooks do matter!

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Add descriptions to all contentOptimise all content as you write it

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Override Descriptions in the menuMenu Manager can control descriptions

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Global DescriptionDon’t bother with this!

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KeywordsNot important

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Keywordsbut good to keep you focused

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Global KeywordsDon’t worry about this

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CANONICAL URLsGet rid of those pesky Duplicate content issues

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Many ways to display Content in JoomlaTell Joomla Which one is right

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Use Joomla 3.1+built in CANONICAL URLs

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SH404SEFbuilt in cananical URLs, and more!

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RSSEObuilt in cananical URLs since Joomla 1.5

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4. Heading TagsUse them and use them right

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Order your headingsH1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6

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Don’t jump LevelsH1->h3->h6

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Keyword Rich HeadingsAlso keep them relevant

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5. Search Engine Friendly URLsKeyword friendly

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Keywords in your URLsUse Relevant keywords

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Optimise your ALIAS - Categories Menus, Categories and Articles

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Optimise your ALIAS - ArticlesMenus, Categories and Articles

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Optimise your ALIAS - MenusMenus, Categories and Articles

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SH404SEFBuilt in SEF URL controls and Optimisation

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RSSEOBuilt in SEF controls and customisation

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6. BreadcrumbsThe trails! Where did this pizza come from?

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Look At What Google Does to StructureNavigate by breadcrumbs

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Organise your ContentGood categorisation, breadcrumb trails

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7. Content Content ContentGood is desirable, rich content that is engaging, sticky and sharable

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Most importantGood content can STILL rank even with bad SEO. Worship the content

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Good content is stickyLast a long time

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Good content is sharableWrite stuff that people will share over and over again. Make

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Part 1 - Over! Question Time

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MicrodataThe HTML Schema that everyone forgets

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What is Microdata?Schema for Defining content on a page

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Page of data into meaningful chunksWhat slice is what

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Why Microdata?We understand content, search engines don’t

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Search is changingSiri one day will use microdata

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Google GlassesSearching for snippets of information

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Examples of Microdata?Recipes, movie session times, books, videos, reviews, locations

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Examples of Microdata?Recipes, movie session times, books, videos, reviews, locations

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How to Dance with Microdatahttp://schema.org/docs/full.html

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<div> <h1>Avatar</h1> <span>Director: James Cameron (born August 16, 1954)</span> <span>Science fiction</span> <a href="../movies/avatar-theatrical-trailer.html">Trailer</a></div>

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<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Movie"> <h1>Avatar</h1> <span>Director: James Cameron (born August 16, 1954)</span> <span>Science fiction</span> <a href="../movies/avatar-theatrical-trailer.html">Trailer</a></div>

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<div itemscope itemtype ="http://schema.org/Movie">

<h1 itemprop="name">Avatar</h1>

<span>Director: <span itemprop="director">James Cameron</span> (born August 16, 1954)</span>

<span itemprop="genre">Science fiction</span>

<a href="../movies/avatar-theatrical-trailer.html" itemprop="trailer">Trailer</a>

</div>

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Special Formatting RulesRules for Microdata

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YYYY-MM-DD format<time datetime="2011-04-01">04/01/11</time>

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hh:mm or hh:mm:ss<time datetime="2011-05-08T19:30">May 8, 7:30pm</time>

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Canonical References<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Book"> <span itemprop="name">The Catcher in the Rye</span>— by <span itemprop="author">J.D. Salinger</a> Here is the book's <a itemprop="url" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye">Wikipedia page</a>.</div>

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How to with JoomlaMicrodata overrides

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Override EverythingEverything! Should be in core templates

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Learn more about Microdatajoomlabe.at/microdata

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Questions?

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Google Patent AuthorRank ?!?!?What are they up to?

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Author RankContributor to the king

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Gives Google+ meaningNow I have to use Google+

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Link buildingNot like the old days

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Panda update, Penguin UpdatesStop the spam, stop the fake content

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Content is kingMore importance on content

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Pagerankthe old contributing factor

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Author Rank X Page Rank = AuthorPageRankRewarding content writers of good content and good websites

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build social profilesto build up author rank!

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Build your Author rankBuild up your authority

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More reason to writefor the joomla magazine

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Questions?

Follow me@astroboysoup@joomlabeatjoomlabe.at

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