SEO may sound complicated and expensive, but there are a number of things you can do to improve your search engine ranking that won't have you spending a dime or tearing your hair out. Here the 10 simplest SEO tips and tricks for Joomla sites. 1) Don't install any sample data when you set up a Joomla! site. When you launch your Joomla! Site, it's very easy to forget to delete all the demo articles that come with it. That will give you pages, links and newsfeeds that are irrelevant to your topic. Delete your sample data and don't forget to empty your trash as well!

2) Your Site Name should be your site's name.
There can be a temptation to cram as many keywords as possible into the "Site Name" field. It doesn't help and when users register at your site, they get an email saying "Welcome to Widgets, Buy Widgets, Cheap Widgets, [ ... ]

New users of Joomla tend to find template module positions confusing and possibly frustrating. Joomla 1.5 has improved the way templates work to ensure this is less confusing, however some users might still find it hard to add template positions to their templates. This article will attempt to clear the air about template module positions.

In the Joomla 1.5 Module Manager ( Extensions > Module Manager, you can assign your modules to a number of positions. As opposed to Joomla 1.0, where positions where defined at website level, the positions in Joomla 1.5 are defined per template. Thus the template positions problems is reduced, and responsibility is now with the template author to ensure that template positions defined in the template details file, actually exist in the template!

If you require additional template positions, y [ ... ]