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[DSPL01]

Hello! I have a few questions and concerns regarding our site. Hoping that I can gain more information from everyone who's more experienced than I am.

Our site has been up since May 2009 and ever since that time we made our best efforts to stay on top of things although the SEO efforts seems to be not making any progress even with all the SEF page/articles change's we have performed.

Am I missing something here?

I have heard that if I have a dynamic or database driven site that it would be better to produce a SEF page as an alternative. Is this true? If that's the case would I leave that on the root directory?

Or if anyone had this issue - what can I do to make my site more SEO friendly and crawlable (is that right spelling?)?

Thanks in Advance!

[Jill]

I have heard that if I have a dynamic or database driven site that it would be better to produce a SEF page as an alternative. Is this true? If that's the case would I leave that on the root directory?

In 1994 or so that may have been true. Where did you hear such old info?

Joomla is perfectly search engine friendly if you know how to use it.

[chrishirst]

Our site has been up since May 2009 and ever since that time we made our best efforts to stay on top of things although the SEO efforts seems to be not making any progress even with all the SEF page/articles change's we have performed.

Am I missing something here?

"Search Engine Friendly changes". Hmm! Usually that means doing something that would totally destroy (or damage at best) any previous efforts in promotion and optimising.

I have heard that if I have a dynamic or database driven site that it would be better to produce a SEF page as an alternative. Is this true? If that's the case would I leave that on the root directory?

Nope, It's not true. 5 years ago having querystring parameters in URIs could cause some minor problems for crawling under certain conditions.
This is not so much the case now.

Or if anyone had this issue - what can I do to make my site more SEO friendly and crawlable (is that right spelling?)?

Make sure your navigation uses hrefs in the source code rather than being created by javascript or burried in Flash elements.

[Randy]

What they said. Dynamic sites just aren't an issue and haven't been for years as long as you're not doing something crazy like appending session id's onto the urls. Which I don't think Joomla does at all.

One thing that's probably missing from the equation, because it's the missing piece I see for many who are new to SEO is that you're probably totally ignoring the off-site factors. Not only is getting the word out an important part of the SEO equation because it attracts links, but it's even more important from a marketing perspective. Especially in today's world where more and more real people are foregoing search by finding what they need/want via other online venues.

[DSPL01]

Will do and Thank you All for the quick responses.

Randy, we have not forgotten that part. We are trying very hard to be seen out there by word of mouth, social media, and other sources of publications. We will move forward and keep trying and I know it will take some time to be at the top again.

Thanks!

[Catz]

Make sure your navigation uses hrefs in the source code rather than being created by javascript or burried in Flash elements.

That is some great advice more people need to pay attention to!

Not only with Joomla but for all web pages.