Joomla All the Way | Increase Website Traffic

Web Hosting SEO and the New Paradigm
Part Five: Joomla All the Way

In our ongoing series of special reports on how your web hosting decisions tend to influence your web site's standing in the results of the search engines, we now shift focus from the back end to the front end to tell you why using a powerful content management system (CMs) like Joomla is not only good for SEO but also well-suited to your underlying mission to increase targeted web traffic to your site.

What is Joomla?

Has your web hosting company told you about Joomla? Probably not. This is because it is not their place to recommend content management systems or to get involved with either your front end or your user interface. Moreover, since Joomla is an open source CMS which essentially means that it is a community-based initiative reflecting both the individual and combined efforts of millions of highly qualified developers, consultants and users, there is no commercial model to support advertising initiatives. Like Wikipedia, Open Office and generic Linux, Joomla has arrived at the forefront of web-based content management systems because of sheer power, functionality and a small dose of goodwill. You could visit http://joomla.org to learn more about Joomla and its bewildering features, functionality and attributes. Remember, Microsoft won't send you a bill to visit the site or to download Joomla!

Ten Reasons why you should Build your Web site in Joomla

• Extremely easy to download, install and implement

• 100,000 developers and forums standing by to help you

• Available in forty languages

• Search engine friendly to the max

• Thousands of templates, themes and demos available

• Endless applications including personal pages, e-commerce sites, newsletters, blot-style web sites, information portals and e-learning and content-rich applications

• Robust CMS with version upgrades announced regularly

• Seamless integration with practically every critical web component including web analytics

• Fully compatible with e-commerce and SSL security standards

• Ideal for video streaming and pod casting applications
  
  

SEO-Friendly Attributes of Joomla

Joomla is intuitively SEO-friendly in that no matter which search engine optimization approach you pursue-- strategic, tactical or conventional-- Joomla will support it. The major search engines can index a Joomla site with great ease as long as the Site Map is in place and the internal linking structure is in order. The meta data management features of Joomla are also both user-friendly and SEO friendly. Joomla is configured to generate many of the meta tags such as the meta title tag and ensure proper placement.

If you are planning to launch a new web site, Joomla just might be the platform of choice for you.

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About the Author

Naveen Kapur is a senior SEO and SEM consultant with more than ten years of core experience in multimedia and graphic design, website optimization and Internet marketing. He helps organizations achieve their corporate objectives by building an online presence on the Internet.