Is joomla good for seo?

Yes, you should migrate to wordpress cause it's more SEO friendly then joomla.

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Joomla and wordpress is the same, remember wordpress comes from joomla.

SEO is CMS agnostic, html structure is provided by the theme for each CMS so any SEO benefits are generally theme dependant.

SEO mostly depends upon the the nature of the product and the site. cms like joomla only helps for an end user to add keywords and url rewriting through different plugins and modules.

What does he need to increase traffic?he tried everything!Any good plugins for joomla except ijoomla seo? submitting to high pr directories could be the key?

Yes Joomla is Good For SEO.

Hi,
Yes joomla and WP both are good for SEO , you just know how to work SEO on-page and off-page.

for addons, module and components you can make better.

Well, according to me, Joomla or Wordpress are not responsible for SEO benefit.. you can choose any of them, but then you need to have some great SEO working for the site.

you can perform better with joomla, if you do seo right way. if you dont know about how to do it . than you can try on wordpress. but both are best for seo . depend on the way of doing.

Joomla 1.7 is very SEO friendly, I feel like a lot of people here are thinking about 1.5. Both Wordpress and Joomla will have a number of SEO extensions as well.

I think it depends upon what kind of functionality you want ,what is your requirements .

No , I don't Think so.Stick to Your website and optimize it properly.

Yes. I believe that Joomla is good for SEO. Joomla is among the best the world has ever seen in terms of CMS. Joomla can be Search Engine friendly provided it is handled by SEO experts who know how to maximize Search Engine results for Joomla websites.

I get a good pagerank for my web but the basic problem of using joomla, why it's needed long time to display page? I've tried this on many browsers and of course with good internet connection.

dont migrate to wordpress cos u may lose some or all of your page / url structure and this will give u massive prioblems. stick with what you already have and just concentrate on other seo tactics to improve traffic

Wordpress is much easy to improve SEO, then Joomla. Find the permalinks. Choose custom permalinks structure. Make it category/postname . And you are done.
Also be sure that your .httaccses file is write ready.

For Joomla 1.5 is just little bit difficult, but now the new Joomla 1.7 can give you more power in SEO. In easy way.

Both CMS are cool, really depends on your needs and your knowledge.
Good luck/

Now here are 10 easy, cheap ways to improve your SEO.

1) Don't install any sample data when you set up a Joomla! site.

When you launch your Joomla! Site, it’s very easy to forget to delete all the demo articles that come with it. That will give you pages, links and newsfeeds that are irrelevant to your topic. Delete your sample data and don't forget to empty your trash as well!

2) Your Site Name should be your site’s name.

There can be a temptation to cram as many keywords as possible into the "Site Name" field. It doesn't help and when users register at your site, they get an email saying "Welcome to Widgets, Buy Widgets, Cheap Widgets, Bargain Widgets!" You don't want that.

3) Turn off your PDF links.

When we analyze Joomla! Sites, we often find PDFs ranking higher than the original pages. Because PDF pages have no menu links, they're a dead-end. Users can't move from the PDF to the rest of your site. So turn off those links.

4) Don't waste your site's link juice with lots of social bookmarking links.

Lets face it, very few pages have a chance to hit the Digg home page or do well on Reddit, so only place those buttons on your best articles. Your visitors appreciate clean, uncluttered pages -- and so do search engines.

5) Redirect the www and non-www versions of your site to the same place.

All you need to do is add this little piece of code to your .htaccess file. Note: Replace MyDomain with your domain name and .com with your domain extension.
6) Turn on your cache.

Search in Google and you'll see a size for each site. Smaller, faster sites are more popular with visitors and with Google. One easy way to make your site act small and load faster is to turn on your cache in Global Configuration.

7) Enter a full description for all your sections and categories.

These pages are great for organizing your site... and for improving Page Rank. If you organize your sections and categories carefully, your site becomes very easy for both people and search-engine spiders to navigate.

8) Less is often more

Having thousands of Joomla! pages indexed in Google isn't always a good thing, especially if those pages don't bring value. Some components, for example, can produce lots of extra pages that are completely worthless. One easy way to check if your site is putting garbage on Google is to search for site:mydomain.com. If you find pages that don't have good content, you might want to remove them.

9) Empty your global configuration metadata.

I'm sure you're all big fans of Joomla!, but I'm equally sure that "Joomla! - the dynamic portal engine and content management system" doesn't describe your site. Take it out.

10) Be confident.

Joomla! is fantastic software that allows you to easily create lots of high quality pages that are great for your SEO. If you keep a close eye on your site and take the time to learn how Joomla! works, there's no reason why you shouldn't have top-flight search engine rankings!

I personally hate joomla...Too complicated and too heavy to load.

I dont think so. I have worked in wordpress and in joomla.What I personally feel is that joomla is much better than wordpress in all aspects including SEO. All my sites run in joomla not in WP!

[QUOTE=deejayvirg;4387768]Hi there,
I have a friend who is using joomla for 2 years and a half and traffic can't reach more that 2500/day.

Do you think that migrating to wordpress will make any sense?

Thanks.

No i don't think so that Joomla is good for SEO. Joomla can only be search engine friendly if it is handled by SEO experts only. Joomla is the toughest for the search engine optimization.

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