Joomla: Simple SEO technique to boost your website
Posted by Peter Dowse
Having unique and relevant title and description tags is one of the easist and most effective ways to assist your SEO efforts and drive targeted traffic to your website.
Adding title tags and description tags to your Joomla website
A title tag is considered by most SEO experts as THE most important aspect of your website’s ranking factors for on-page SEO. Generating a great title tag is key to ranking highly in search engines and generating a healthy CTR (click through rate).
A good description tag is also helpful in getting a user to click on your listing. If the keyword a user has typed into a search engine matches a keyword that’s used in your title and description tag, these keywords will be bolded by a search engine and increase a user’s recognition of these keywords, resulting in a higher click through rate.
Read our comprehensive article: The ultimate SEO guide for Joomla titles, descriptions and URLs >>
How to add a title tag to your Joomla web pages:-
- Log into your Joomla administrator area.
- Hover over the menu item ‘Content’ and click Article Manager.
- Click the article/web page you wish to edit.
- In the ‘Title’ field write a keyword-rich title tag.
- Click Save (v1.7) or Apply (v1.5).
How to add a description to your Joomla web pages:-
- Log into your Joomla administrator area.
- Hover over the menu item ‘Content’ and click Article Manager.
- Click the article/web page you wish to edit.
- In the right hand column click the tab ‘Metadata options’.
- Add your keyword-rich page description to the ‘Meta Description’ box.
- Click Save (v1.7) or Apply (v1.5).
If you have any questions about how to add title or description tags to your website or you'd like some info on our Joomla SEO services, please give us a call on (07) 3882 3375 – we’d be happy to help you.
