Seo for Joomla - Making Joomla Search Engine Optimized

AlphaContent for Joomla Real SEO Component

December 5, 2006 · 2 Comments

Last time I promised you to tell you about this great Search Engine Optimization component for Joomla.

Now I will give you the download URL in a minute….

First off, this component wasn’t made for Joomla SEO, it was made to bring your information to your visitors in a Directory kind of way.
Thus it gives your visitors (including Spiders) a great overview with excerpts from the beginning of the pages and all the titles of the pages….

Great internal linking with lots of keywords…

Here is the description of the website:
“AlphaContent is a directory of Yahoo style with an alphabetical research for item.
This directory is built with a tree structure similar to yahoo and the other major directories starting from the sections and categories of Mambo/Joomla.
Many parameters for the presentation and selection possible of the sections/categories to be or not published.
This component will be appropriate more particularly for all those which use the articles like system of cards, or those which need a classification of their items alphabetically or in the form of directory.”

Like said, it was not build to perform on Search Engine Optimization, but it has had a great effect on bringing search results to my Joomla websites.

Download and Install
Now here is the link where you can download Joomla AlphaContent 
Download the file and install it like a normal component.

The Configuration has a lot of features, I like to set my Sef component and Limit the List  Intro style to Text and 250 Characters (Keeping SEO in mind)

If you want some extra’s of this component, you can download some additional Modules, bringing further indexes.

How does it look like?
You can see the Component live, here on my Dutch site ItMentor Index or my English Joomla SEO Index

So besides giving your visitors a great kind of Sitemap / Index of Articles it brings your also good spider food…!

Next time I will look with you at bringing structure in your website that Search Engines love.

Categories: Joomla Blog · Joomla SEO · Search Engine Marketing · Search Engine Optimization · Search Engines · zoekmachine optimalisatie

2 responses so far ↓

  • Bill // April 25, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    I m using Alphacontent 3.0.3 and SEF enabled. All other links are fine except contact us and links generated by Alphacontent. From your example everything is working fine. How did u do that?
    Do you know why on my case it is not working only for contact us page and Alphacontend directory?

  • Hummerbie // April 25, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    @Bill: I use on the content items to go into the Alphacontent pages, not the static ones.

    If you are working with a static page for the contact us page, you should set the paramater for content to use both.

    If you use the Contact component it should not show up in the index page.

    The example pages are running on 2.5.x on a Joomla 1.0.x installation.

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