George Susini – Raleigh Tech – Small Business Web Design and eCommerce

Many people tout Joomla and Content management systems in general, as the ultimate solution for SEO – Search engine Optimizations. Ease of updating, etc

When Deploying a Content Management System, the initial setup of Joomla must ensure the proper SEO considerations are in place to ensure the first Google search and indexing are successful. In addition the Alias setting is very important for you SEO or placement in the search engines.

As an example should you setup Joomla and load all the content, Google will search you and you will be left with indexing such as http://www.domainname.com/indez.php?junk2764786846248.html, which is not conducive to a successful SEO strategy.

Ensure you Web Developer is familiar with a Joomla Setup as well as the settings for SEO friendly Urls and Apache Mod Rewrites. otherwise, you will spend more time and effort replacing the useless information indexed by the search engines then you will promoting your Small Business on the Web.

Another tip fron Raleigh Tech and George Susini

Google PR Pingpong time again – George Susini

Perfect Example We have waited 2 weeks now to see what the competion will do. They have fallen into the SEO ping pong trap

While they have gained position they have also revealed their SEO strategy. Now we are able to do the proper research on what they have done and counter act with a more powerful strategy. Good job guys…… Now time for the Google PR Pingpong game again. Stay tuned

SEO is a constant process, many customers believe it is a one time event. Facts are once you competitors see your improvement in the Search engine rankings, they will implement SEO or changes to their web site to improve or counteract you rankings.

Keys to maintaining your search engine rankings:

- Do keyword and keyword phrase research

- Keep you content refreshed and updated

- Update you meta description and title tags

- Monitor your rankings in all the major serch engines, Google, Bing, Yahoo

- Content Content  , build backlinks to original content the more keyword rich your content the more relevant to search engines

George Susini