We eat, sleep and breathe Joomla!

So you’re creating your Joomla site. You're working hard to make it look good, adding in your keywords and all the right content. Now what about your visitors? To drive the most traffic possible to your site there is some advice you just cannot ignore. Read on below to find 6 quick Joomla SEO tips that will help maximize your traffic potential.

Step 1: Turn on Search Friendly URLs

This is one of the most effective Joomla search engine optimization tips. To enable Search Friendly URLs you first must run Apache server. Then, mod_rewrite must be enabled. Your server will also need to allow .htaccess override.

Step 2: Install sh404SEF Component

To install, you will need to download the sh404SEF plug-in from siliana.com. After downloading, you can go through the straightforward configuration to finish installing.

Step 3: Easy & Clean Joomla Titles and URLs

Joomla automatically enters the entire title of your page in your URL, which can make it unnecessarily long and messy for Google results. One way to fix this is to take out stop words. You can do this using the “Title Alias” option when creating your webpage.

Step 4: Insert H1 Tags

First you will need to install the sh404SEF component, which should be no problem if you followed the earlier step. After installation, go to components > sh404SEF > sh404SEF configuration > Meta/SEO > Insert H1 Tags and select Yes. Your H1 tag should be different from your Joomla page title. It should accurately represent what is on the page.

Step 5: Create a Unique Home Page Title

Your Home page tag is quite frankly the most important element of your Joomla site's titles, and as such it should include your most important keywords.

Step 6: Prevent Duplicate Content

Duplicate content can prove problematic down the road in Google and other search engines. So the best advice is to prevent it!