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• 1. Do not install the Joomla sample database

Do not install the sample database when you install Joomla, because these examples usually are not related to the theme of your website. If you have installed it, we suggest you to delete it and empty the recycle bin; otherwise it will contain duplicated data that is largely used by other sites, and this is not conductive to SEO.

• 2. Your site name should be your domain

Some people like to fill in the Site Name with many keywords. In fact, this would not help you much. When users register on your site, they will receive an email saying” welcome to software   download database web source” which seems not very clear and also it is not your wish.

• 3 Disable PDF links

The rank value of PDF files is usually higher than that of the average webpage. Because Google considers that the PDF files are filtered, collated and the content value is higher than ordinary webpage. However there is no menu in the PDF links page generated by Joomla. When users access to this page through search engine, they are unable to visit others pages of the website. Therefore you should disable this feature.

• 4. Do not put too many social bookmarking links on the page

Users like the clean pages and so does search engine. Therefore we suggest you to put social bookmarking links in the valuable content pages, rather than leave around everywhere.

• 5. Redirect www and non www domain name to the same page

It is very simple. Add the following code to .htaccess file and pay attention to replace MyDomain.com with your own domain name

## Can be commented out if causes errors.
Options FollowSymLinks
# mod_rewrite in use

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^MyDomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.MyDomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^.*MyDomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.MyDomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

• 6. Open the website cache

Search engines like to visit the fast speed website, open this option, and make your site the better performance.

• 7.Fill in the complete description for each section and category.

It can help to improve the site’s page rank and optimize search engine visit.

• 8. Simple is beautiful

Thousands of pages indexed by Google is not a good thing, especially some of  the pages have little value content .Google usually does not like it. Some of Joomla’s components will generate a lot of pages and some of them are useless for the website. You should enter site:mydomain.com in Google for checking. If the indexed pages contain no significant value, you can remove them from Joomla.

• 9. Fill in metadata in Joomla’s Global Settings page

Complete the installation of Joomla, the default metadata is “Joomla! – The dynamic portal engine and content management system”. If you do not want it as the description of your site, change it.

• 10.Confidence

Joomla designer takes into account the SEO problems. It is a great CMS and you should learn how Joomla works. You’ll find your site have a higher search rankings soon.

Just want to share some news from YahooPete with the U.S. Yahoo! Search Marketing advertisers.

Within several weeks, minimum bids for a number of Sponsored Search keywords will no longer be fixed at $.10. Your new minimum bids can be lower or higher than $.10. Content Match minimum bids currently will remain at $.10.

The amount set as your minimum bid on a keyword in Sponsored Search can vary depending on multiple factors, such as the relevance of your keywords (as measured by the quality of the ads associated with them), and the number of bidders and bid amounts in the particular keyword market.

In the current top ad placement formula, Google just consider your Quality Score and your actual CPC, which is determined in part by the bids of advertisers below you. Even if you have a high quality ad, if advertisers below you are not bidding very much, your actual CPC may not be high enough to qualify your ad to appear in the top position. Read more »