in this chapter, we will study about website seo in joomla. seo (search engine optimization) is about optimizing a website for search engine. it helps search engines find and rank your site higher than the other sites in response to a search query.

joomla website seo

following are the simple steps used to set the joomla website seo −

step 1 − click on system → global configuration in joomla administrator. by default site tab opens up as shown below.

following are the details of the fields present in the seo setting.

• search engine friendly urls − optimizing the url's to the search engine.

• use url rewriting − selecting the server, which rewrites the url's to meet a specific condition.

• adds suffix to url − based on the document type the suffix to the url is added.

• unicode aliases − it selects between the transliteration and unicode aliases.

• include site name in page titles − provide your site name on all pages at the beginning or end of the page.

toolbar

following are the toolbar options in seo −

• save − saves your seo setting.

• save & close − saves the seo setting and closes the current screen.

• cancel − cancels the seo setting in joomla.