Search engine optimization

To have the website better indexed by the search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, the pages have to be with meaningful names. That's why we will use Joomla's SEO feature.

If you want to use SEO for your Joomla installation you will have to enable mod_rewrite. Mod_rewrite is installed on all MajestyMedia Servers and in order to enable the rewrite rules, you will have to rename the htaccess.txt file in your Joomla installation directory to .htaccess.

Then you should enable Joomla's SEO functionality from Site -> Global configuration in the admin panel.

In this page you can change the Metadata Settings about your site along with other useful information. Though we are interested rather in the left part - "SEO Settings" and we will change "Search Engine Friendly URLs" to Yes. After that we will click on [Save] from the top right menu.

For example, this will change the link to the "About us" page from:

http://your_domain_name.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=2

to

http://your_domain_name.com/index.php/About us (yes, that's right, with the blank space)