Heading Structure and Front-Page Duplicates in Joomla
A follow-up to the technical checklist, covering two things that get done wrong more often than they get done: consolidating the front page, and the heading…
SEO
Search visibility, URLs, duplicates and structured data.
Technical SEO Checklist for a New Joomla Site
Joomla has a reputation for being weak at SEO out of the box. It is mostly undeserved — what it actually needs is half an hour of configuration that nobody…
Where Joomla Sets a Canonical URL and Where You Must
A canonical link tells a search engine which of several similar URLs is the real one. Joomla does not emit one for you, so every decision here is yours…
Redirect Old Query-String URLs After Moving to Joomla
You move a catalogue site to Joomla and the old URLs look like /index.php?cid=2&tid=3&fid=345. Joomla's redirect manager sees the path — /index.php — and…
Structured Data in Joomla 6 Is Already Switched On
Structured data used to mean an extension, or hand-editing layouts to sprinkle microdata attributes through the markup. In Joomla 6 it is core: a system plugin…
Seven Ways to Remove Duplicate Content in Joomla
In the previous article we looked at where duplicates come from and how to find them. This one is about removing them. Every site is different, so treat these…
Duplicate Content in Joomla: Where It Comes From and How to Find It
Duplicate content is the complaint that never quite goes away in Joomla. It is rarely a bug — it is the natural result of a routing system that can reach the…
Do You Still Need a Third-Party SEF Extension?
For years the first thing installed on a new Joomla site was an SEF extension, because the core router genuinely needed help. That has not been true for a…