| 01 March 2010
Posted in Tips and Tricks

We have started a new computer forum as the InstantPhp.Com . Because of this, We are currently reading search engine related articles .  I see most people writes their top 10 tips to improve the search engine rankings.

I'm going to try to write my own top 1o tips for Joomla 1.5

1. No black hat techniques, don’t buy into link farms that just send traffic, you will not receive converting visitors. You will need backlinks from the related web sites.

2. Ensure you have your own web site domain rather than relying on free sites and article directories like Squidoo and Hubpages. These are good but use them to drive one-way traffic to a landing page on your own web site domain.

3. Make sure that you have meta tags related to your web page content. These should contain your keywords derived from your keyword research. Use Wordtracker to find out what daily searches contain those keywords, you may need to optimize further. Checking this JED category may help you

4. The content must be original, avoid duplicate content. Notice I am using the word ‘relevant’ a lot here, the reason being is that it’s often overlooked in favor of keyword density – forget it, you risk being banned if you use keyword stuffing techniques. Generally 3 to 5 key phrases (assuming long tail e.g. popular online games) per 500 to 1000 words.

5. Create blogs and mini-sites related to your niche that all serve your market with back links to your main business web site. This is a good time to use Squidoo, blogger and Hubpages as they are very high traffic sites. Include back links to your site in your bio.

6. Add ALT tags to all your images with relevant words related to your web page.

7. Submit a press release highlighting your product benefits to the top press release networks such as PRWeb and URLwire. If you don’t know how to prepare one, consult lulu.com as it teaches you the basics.

8. Create discussions on web sites like Facebook, MySpace  and twitter related to your niche and invite potential customers to voice their questions, concerns, etc. Include back links to your site in your bio.

9. Promote your web site services in free high traffic classified ads such as USFreeads. Include back links to your site in your bio.

10. Offer support to people needing your products by finding questions on Yahoo Answers and showing them the solution with a link to your site and a reason to visit. Be honest, show the benefits.