March 10th, 2010

7 Best Free SEO Tools for Joomla

Well, it is unnecessary to explain that SEO optimization is more than important direction for any web project. Of course Joomla is a great CMS platform but it requires a lot of extra tools if you want to see immediate result. Today we have collected small list of most useful and popular SEO extensions for your Joomla website.

1. SEO Simple Joomla 1.5 PLugin

This native Joomla 1.5 plugin automatically generates description meta tags by pulling text from the content to help with SEO. It also gives you the ability to set different title configurations.

2. Joomla SEO / SEF Component

ARTIO JoomSEF is a component for Joomla SEO (Search Engine Optimization). JoomSEF will rewrite your Joomla! URLs not to be only Search Engine Friendly (SEF), but also to be human easily understandable.

3. Joomap

Joomap is a Sitemap component for Joomla CMS version 1.5.x. Joomap offers a wide range of configuration options and can also generate a Google Sitemaps listing of your website’s structure. Joomap also implements a very simple plugin-mechanism to import content from external components.

4. JoomlaSEO

JoomSEO automatically places the relevant Keywords and descriptions in the places that count for Search Engine Optimization. JoomSEO now adds Heading Tags to content titles for accessibility and further Search Engine Optimization.

5. SEO Canonicalisation

SEO Canonicalisation is a system plugin for Joomla! 1.5 that enables site ‘canonicalisation’, which means that when a user hits your site from another domain than your preferred (for example, www.sammoffatt.com.au instead of sammoffatt.com.au), Joomla! will redirect the user to the appropriate hostname.

6. Redirect 301 plugin for Joomla 1.5

The J!Redirect301 plugin for Joomla 1.5 will allow you to set up a permanent redirection (HTTP 301) so that if you have several sites pointing to a single Joomla site you can forward all requests properly to a single domain name.

7. Auto-FrontPage plugin

Auto-Frontpage is a native Joomla! 1.5 plugin which takes care of automatically publishing articles on the frontpage of your Joomla website.