As compare to Wordpress, Joomla is less SE friendly.
It does not have its own ping service but there are plugins for the ping service.
I have already activated the ping plugin but still it takes time for new articles to get indexed in the SE.
Any concrete suggestion and feedback?
Thanks in Advance. Pinging only helps Google to know that your site has been updated, but it does not guarantee that all/any pages will get indexed and also, it cannot change the time in which new pages get indexed.
If your site have a solid overall ranking, then you can expect to see your pages indexed faster.
And can you show us your site URL?
Links in your signature and latest blog: all sites seems to be wordpress based. Thank you Angilina for your response.
Actually my website is quite a new.
Code: www.CarHubs.comIt has around 135 indexed pages.
If it does not have good overall ranking, does it mean that I should build the overall ranking first to get indexed articles as soon as they have been published?
This is not the thing in case of wordpress.
In wordpress, posts get indexed as soon as they have been published.
Can we make the Joomla script as SE friendly as the wordpress? Your site code seems to be ok. Few quality/relevant backlinks will surely help the site to get indexed faster.
Suggestion for your site:
Content on your homepage can be accessed via these URLs:
www . yoursite . com/index.php
yoursite . com/index.php
www . yoursite . com/
yoursite . com/
Use 301 redirect and canonical link element to solve internal duplicate content issue.
Also, the description meta tag has lot of content in it. Google does not use this tag in their ranking algo, but consider to have a description tag around 160 characters. Thanks Angilina for your suggestion.
Well, I can edit the .htaccess for non-www to www redirect but I have no idea about "www . yoursite . com/index.php" to "www. yoursite . com" redirect.
I am little bit bit scared to play with .htaccess.
Your help is highly appreciated. This code will redirect index.php to the main site:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.yoursite.com/ [R=301,L] Well, this is for only "yoursite . com/index.php" into "yoursite. com/"
And if I want to redirect "yoursite . com/index.php/article" into "yoursite . com/article", then what are the changes required?
Can I do this type of redirection with .htaccess?
Sorry for bothering you again and again.
regards Actually, the code which I mentioned, redirects any URL with index.php in it to its root directory.
Like: yoursite . com/article/index.php will redirect to: yoursite . com/article/
At least that is what happens in my site. I have added this code and it is working for all index.php URLs.
"bothering you again and again"
And I would love to answer more questions
Hello Angilina,
Please have a look in the URL below:
Code: http://www.carhubs.com/index.php/ford/83-ford-fusion-phaseout-figo-inThis URL does not redirect to
Code: http://www.carhubs.com/ford/83-ford-fusion-phaseout-figo-ineven if I have changed the setting in the htaccess.
I don't know why.
Thanks have look at http://www.joomlaseo.net/Joomla/News/Joomla-SEO-Tutorials-For-Your-Joomla-CMS.html it contains some good tools for joomla seo. Although I don't believe J is any worse then Wordpress out of the box, I do think people expect the program itself to be more valuable then it is for SEO benefits
At the end of the day, you need to build backlinks no matter how you made your site Well for new sites, my experience is that at first, it will not be as easy to get indexed by SE compared to the old sites. But as time goes by and you started to accumulate good and quality links, and regular updates then it can be easily indexed by SEs. If you update your site on a regular basis, then than can make it more visible to SE and may get your blogs indexed faster. Also try to submit your site on social bookmarking sites. I have experience that on my site. When it was just a new site, indexing is pretty hard but it gets better over time.
Is it a blog type site where you can update your site regularly? I did a side by side comparison (as apples to apples as possible) with Drupal and Joomla when I was rebuilding my site from the phpnuke/phpbb CMS (Ravennuke) to vBulletin/?. When compared side by side, Drupal was very quick to be picked up by Google but Joomla took ages and in some cases, never showed up even when the content was published there first.
I then picked up SEF Advance for Joomla and never looked back. Now all of my Joomla articles are picked up by Google very quickly and rank reasonably high (between pages 1 - 3) inside a few weeks. Quote: Originally Posted by zeruel
Well for new sites, my experience is that at first, it will not be as easy to get indexed by SE compared to the old sites. But as time goes by and you started to accumulate good and quality links, and regular updates then it can be easily indexed by SEs. If you update your site on a regular basis, then than can make it more visible to SE and may get your blogs indexed faster. Also try to submit your site on social bookmarking sites. I have experience that on my site. When it was just a new site, indexing is pretty hard but it gets better over time.
Is it a blog type site where you can update your site regularly? Yes, it is a blog type site.
Ofcourse new sites take time to get indexed but I think wordpress is far better as compare to Joomla with regards to SEO. Until and unless all those SEF extensions and plugins are added, Joomla cannot be compared with wordpress.
Thanks you for your reply guys.
I think I need some more time to wait and see my website performance with time.
Regards
It does not have its own ping service but there are plugins for the ping service.
I have already activated the ping plugin but still it takes time for new articles to get indexed in the SE.
Any concrete suggestion and feedback?
Thanks in Advance. Pinging only helps Google to know that your site has been updated, but it does not guarantee that all/any pages will get indexed and also, it cannot change the time in which new pages get indexed.
If your site have a solid overall ranking, then you can expect to see your pages indexed faster.
And can you show us your site URL?
Links in your signature and latest blog: all sites seems to be wordpress based. Thank you Angilina for your response.
Actually my website is quite a new.
Code: www.CarHubs.comIt has around 135 indexed pages.
If it does not have good overall ranking, does it mean that I should build the overall ranking first to get indexed articles as soon as they have been published?
This is not the thing in case of wordpress.
In wordpress, posts get indexed as soon as they have been published.
Can we make the Joomla script as SE friendly as the wordpress? Your site code seems to be ok. Few quality/relevant backlinks will surely help the site to get indexed faster.
Suggestion for your site:
Content on your homepage can be accessed via these URLs:
www . yoursite . com/index.php
yoursite . com/index.php
www . yoursite . com/
yoursite . com/
Use 301 redirect and canonical link element to solve internal duplicate content issue.
Also, the description meta tag has lot of content in it. Google does not use this tag in their ranking algo, but consider to have a description tag around 160 characters. Thanks Angilina for your suggestion.
Well, I can edit the .htaccess for non-www to www redirect but I have no idea about "www . yoursite . com/index.php" to "www. yoursite . com" redirect.
I am little bit bit scared to play with .htaccess.
Your help is highly appreciated. This code will redirect index.php to the main site:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.yoursite.com/ [R=301,L] Well, this is for only "yoursite . com/index.php" into "yoursite. com/"
And if I want to redirect "yoursite . com/index.php/article" into "yoursite . com/article", then what are the changes required?
Can I do this type of redirection with .htaccess?
Sorry for bothering you again and again.
regards Actually, the code which I mentioned, redirects any URL with index.php in it to its root directory.
Like: yoursite . com/article/index.php will redirect to: yoursite . com/article/
At least that is what happens in my site. I have added this code and it is working for all index.php URLs.
"bothering you again and again"
And I would love to answer more questions
Please have a look in the URL below:
Code: http://www.carhubs.com/index.php/ford/83-ford-fusion-phaseout-figo-inThis URL does not redirect to
Code: http://www.carhubs.com/ford/83-ford-fusion-phaseout-figo-ineven if I have changed the setting in the htaccess.
I don't know why.
Thanks have look at http://www.joomlaseo.net/Joomla/News/Joomla-SEO-Tutorials-For-Your-Joomla-CMS.html it contains some good tools for joomla seo. Although I don't believe J is any worse then Wordpress out of the box, I do think people expect the program itself to be more valuable then it is for SEO benefits
At the end of the day, you need to build backlinks no matter how you made your site Well for new sites, my experience is that at first, it will not be as easy to get indexed by SE compared to the old sites. But as time goes by and you started to accumulate good and quality links, and regular updates then it can be easily indexed by SEs. If you update your site on a regular basis, then than can make it more visible to SE and may get your blogs indexed faster. Also try to submit your site on social bookmarking sites. I have experience that on my site. When it was just a new site, indexing is pretty hard but it gets better over time.
Is it a blog type site where you can update your site regularly? I did a side by side comparison (as apples to apples as possible) with Drupal and Joomla when I was rebuilding my site from the phpnuke/phpbb CMS (Ravennuke) to vBulletin/?. When compared side by side, Drupal was very quick to be picked up by Google but Joomla took ages and in some cases, never showed up even when the content was published there first.
I then picked up SEF Advance for Joomla and never looked back. Now all of my Joomla articles are picked up by Google very quickly and rank reasonably high (between pages 1 - 3) inside a few weeks. Quote: Originally Posted by zeruel
Well for new sites, my experience is that at first, it will not be as easy to get indexed by SE compared to the old sites. But as time goes by and you started to accumulate good and quality links, and regular updates then it can be easily indexed by SEs. If you update your site on a regular basis, then than can make it more visible to SE and may get your blogs indexed faster. Also try to submit your site on social bookmarking sites. I have experience that on my site. When it was just a new site, indexing is pretty hard but it gets better over time. Is it a blog type site where you can update your site regularly? Yes, it is a blog type site.
Ofcourse new sites take time to get indexed but I think wordpress is far better as compare to Joomla with regards to SEO. Until and unless all those SEF extensions and plugins are added, Joomla cannot be compared with wordpress.
Thanks you for your reply guys.
I think I need some more time to wait and see my website performance with time.
Regards