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[cansay Friend cansayJoin date: February 2010Posts: 183Downloads:2Uploads:32 Thanks: 20 Thanked: 19 times in 1 posts]

#150456

I was hoping some of you in hear that know more about SEO than me some advice?

I have never spent much time on the SEO for Joomla since I was afraid it would compromise Jfusion and my discussionbot – But I really need more traffic for all our hardwork on the site.
And spending 20-40 hours a week on a website, when I work 37 hours also = It has to work the best it can….

My site software
Joomla 1.5.15 in legacy mode on a Nginx based server.
Xmap 1.2.2
Forum Vbulletin 3.8.5 with VBSEO 3.3.2 installed.

I use Jfusion 1.2.4 to interlink my user database, and the jfusion Discussionbot
copies my articles to my vbulletin forum and interlink the comments in these articles.
The forum sections blocked in a robot.txt so I dont have any duplicate content

Example:http://www.octeamdenmark.com/news/1-nyheds-kategori/464-forum-updatering-ie-fiks

My Joomla sitemap is generated with Xmap
Looks like this = http://www.octeamdenmark.com/index.php?option=com_xmap&sitemap=1&view=xml&no_html=1

I have ALOT of extentions installed but have no clew about them

My Xmap config.


Agora Plugin
1.0.0
July 2009
Author: Guillermo Vargas <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Unpublished]
Content Plugin
1.0.2
26/02/2008
Author: Guillermo Vargas <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Published]
Eventlist Plugin
1.0.0
2009/07/29
Author: Guillermo Vargas <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Unpublished]
Gallery2 Bridge Plugin
1.0.2
Nov 2008
Author: Guillermo Vargas <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Unpublished]
Glossary Plugin
1.0.0
July 2009
Author: Guillermo Vargas <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Unpublished]
Hot Property Plugin
1.0.0
2008/02/16
Author: Guillermo Vargas <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Unpublished]
JCALPro Plugin
1.0.0
26/02/2008
Author: Guillermo Vargas <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Unpublished]
JDownloads Plugin
1.0.0
September 2008
Author: Ahmet Yesewi <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Unpublished]
JEvents Plugin
1.0.3
2008/02/25
Author: Guillermo Vargas <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Unpublished]
Jomres Plugin
1.0
December 2008
Author: Hazel Wilson <hazel@highlandvision.com>
highlandvision.com
UninstallOptions [Unpublished]
KnowledgeBase Plugin
1.0.0
2008/03/09
Author: Guillermo Vargas <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Unpublished]
Kunena Plugin
1.0.0
September 2007
Author: Guillermo Vargas <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Unpublished]
Mosets Tree Plugin
1.0.1
September 2007
Author: Guillermo Vargas <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Published]
MyBlog Plugin
1.0.0
25/06/2008
Author: Guillermo Vargas <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Unpublished]
Remository Plugin
1.0.3
2008/03/09
Author: Guillermo Vargas <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Unpublished]
JoomSuite Resources Plugin
1.0.0
December 2008
Author: Guillermo Vargas <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Unpublished]
Rokdownloads Plugin
1.0.1
2008/10/09
Author: Jan Moehrke <info@joomla-cbe.de>
www.joomla-cbe.de
UninstallOptions [Unpublished]
RSGallery2 Extension
1.0.0
2008/02/29
Author: Guillermo Vargas <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Unpublished]
SectionEx Plugin
1.0.2
26/06/2008
Author: Guillermo Vargas <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Published]
SOBI2 Plugin
1.1.0
February 2008
Author: Guillermo Vargas <guille@vargas.co.cr>
joomla.vargas.co.cr
UninstallOptions [Unpublished]


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[joshuagaler Friend joshuagalerJoin date: April 2010Posts: 2Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#341400

As you said that you had prepared the site and want a good traffic towards you site. There are lot other things to consider to get traffic. Just by creating sitemap doesn’t mean that you get a good traffic. The basic two technique should be followed and they are onpage search engine optimization and offpage search engine optimization. I suggest you to contact SEO expert if you are planning to be in google first page and to get a good traffic towards your site.

[john689689 Friend john689689Join date: May 2010Posts: 2Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#342975

Where are you ranked in google? Do you know to check your rankings? Are you signed up with google analytics?

[cansay Friend cansayJoin date: February 2010Posts: 183Downloads:2Uploads:32 Thanks: 20 Thanked: 19 times in 1 posts]

#343051

<em>@joshuagaler 175877 wrote:</em><blockquote>As you said that you had prepared the site and want a good traffic towards you site. There are lot other things to consider to get traffic. Just by creating sitemap doesn’t mean that you get a good traffic. The basic two technique should be followed and they are onpage search engine optimization and offpage search engine optimization. I suggest you to contact SEO expert if you are planning to be in google first page and to get a good traffic towards your site.</blockquote>

Thx for your reply sir.
Im sorry im so late in my comment for it 🙁

AMT it is not possible economicly doing this.
I have run my site for 3 years and event though we have ALOT of content I dont have much visitors 🙁

I know it is because we dont update the frontpage stabil enough.
But when a smaller site gets getter raning than us when we have 6-10 times more content im getting afraid 🙁

Found some links on joomla where the indexing was done only on the frontpage… = When one clicks on the link that google has index it only redirects to the frontpage and not the article it self.

Im going to upgrade Xmap withing a few days, and try and find out why this happens.

<em>@john689689 177810 wrote:</em><blockquote>Where are you ranked in google? Do you know to check your rankings? Are you signed up with google analytics?</blockquote>

Im 3/10
Im not sure how to check the rankings except the PR rank as is 3/10 at the moment….

Yes I use analytics alot, to keep track on improments…

[inkanet Friend inkanetJoin date: October 2010Posts: 6Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#360746

Backlinks are vital for your SERP rankings.

If you have enough content, make a support page/blog for back linking. Use also web 2.0 pages like Squidoo and Hubpages to promote your main page.

What you are doing is onsite optimization. Which by the way includes much more than just providing a sitemap with Xmap. Main on site optimization factors are article:

– Titles
– Descripton
– Headings
– Keywords in article url

I strongly recomend you to optimize your landing page for main keywords.

[luisfshort Friend luisfshortJoin date: November 2010Posts: 1Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#362800

hi cansay,

like some of the other replies mentioned, a lot of what you are doing is considered ‘on-site SEO’ — meaning, stuff you do to your pages.

The other key part of getting good ranking and traffic is to do ‘off-site SEO’ — this means getting other sites to link to your site, or submitting your site to RSS feeds, directories, and social-bookmarking sites.

Try this: find your best piece of content on your site, and submit it to some of the social sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit, etc. If you search around, you should be able to find lists full of these sites. Then, when your submission gets posted there, it will include a link back to your page. If you carefully pick what search terms you want to rank for, then those links you put out there will increase your ranking for those terms and people will find your site.

It’s a long and slow process, but it’s fun and you can automate a lot of it. Start reading, and try out some of these techniques to get the backlinks to your site.

[thedigger Friend thediggerJoin date: September 2011Posts: 10Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#426510

Do the following things :

1. Create sitemap.xml and submit through google webmaster
2. Try to create few links of inner pages using social bookmarking
3. Always try to keep link of your latest uploaded page to your home page for few days.

I think google will not find any difficulty to find your new pages and index new pages smoothly. So always link to your new page/pages on home page.

[michelsmith Friend michelsmithJoin date: November 2011Posts: 26Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#430077

Hi,

There are five main tasks to implement systematically whether to build quality backlinks for your blog / website:

1. Create quality content;
2. Submit your blog to directories related;
3. Submit new content to the blog Social bookmarks;
4. Comment on blogs, websites and related forums;
5. Get links to the various pages of the blog / site.

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[ntanim Friend ntanimJoin date: March 2012Posts: 1Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#443023

Although the sitemap index file can list sitemaps in a different directory, the sitemap files themselves cannot reference URLs that are outside of the directory tree/subdirectory in which they are located – which I believe is what you are asking in the second part of your question. So, no, in answer to your overhaul question, I don’t think you can. EDIT: At least according to the sitemap spec.

The only criteria with referencing sitemap files from the index is that the sitemap files are on the same domain. (By the way, the sitemap index file should have <sitemapindex> as its root element, not <urlset> as in your “Sitemap.xml” example – these are for ordinary sitemap files.) Regards, Nawshad

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