Using Joomla

SEO and SEF Resources

Getting your website to rank high on the major search engines is no small task. We have created this list of resources to assist you in taking the next step in learning about SEO and submitting your website to search engines:

Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet

Add your URL to Google

http://www.google.com/addurl/

Yahoo – Submit Your Site (free, but requires registration)

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

Submit your site to Bing (formerly MSN)

http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx

Information on the robots.txt file

http://www.robotstxt.org

Warning

Although not directly related to Joomla, but rather to SEO in general, we feel compelled to warn you about email scams that claim they can get you ranked #1 on Google. You should do your best to steer clear of these types of claims.

“Google never guarantees top placement in search results or AdWords—beware of companies that claim to guarantee rankings, allege a special relationship with Google, or advertise a ‘priority submit’ to Google. There is no priority submit for Google.” (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-to-steer-clear-of-money-scams.html)