Seo for Joomla - Making Joomla Search Engine Optimized

Why a Sitemap? 

Robots love to find a page that brings them all pages to index in one page, they feed on it….
Like the new Sitemap.xml which also contains all links.

If you don’t have a Sitemap page just yet, go download Joomap from Sourceforge Joomla

If you are using Joomla then you must know Joomap!

It is the number one component that makes a Joomla website even better to get indexed by robots then anything else.

Installing Joomap 

Once downloaded, install it like a normal component.

Then go to your menu and Add a New item that links to the Joomap Component.
Publish and save the menu.
Now go to the site it self and Choose the Sitemap item you just created.

If all is done as described, you should have a sitemap that reflects the content of your menu and everything underneath.

Within the component configuration you can make several settings.
- First: What menu’s to show in the sitemap
- Second : What to show from the content and in how many columns (Great for splitting big site into two columns)
You can even exclude menu items from the Sitemap page.
- Third: It has its own css if you want a different layout.

My choice? Just install it and leave the standards…..works for me..and Google, Yahoo and Live, etc

P.s. Don’t forget to update your Google sitemap after you created the Sitemap page…

Next time: A Component that brings a lot of information to the Search Engine spiders of the world!

P.p.s I am testing the new SEF Service map, that also looks very good, more on this later.