Friday, July 30, 2010

How to Use Google to Improve Your SEO

Tips on using a few of Google's free tools to help optimise your site for search engines. Google also offers plenty of free tools to help improve your SEO and get the most out of your site.

inc.com article by J J McCorvey

Friday, July 02, 2010

Joomla 1.5 SEO tip - how to change the title tag

Had a client wanting the title tag changed to some juicy SEO-friendly keywords and I thought "easy job" - well, not quite.

Joomla 1.5 is based on a single page template. The title is inserted dynamically based on settings in the admin. It should be easy to change the title tag but is surprisingly well buried & not in the normal admin areas you'd first think so he's the tip...

1. Log in to the Joomla backend (www.yoursite.com/administrator).
2. Go to Menus -> Main Menu -> click on Home
3. In the right col accordion menu choose Parameters - System -> Page Title.
4. Change the Page Title field with your own juicy keywords
5. SAVE