I am currently in the process of building a new website for my own pleasure, and I thought I would tell you about to process involved in setting up a search engine optimized website with Joomla 1.5.x

You might thinks, well that should not take long… just grab a copy of the new Joomla version, install it en you are ready to got, that easy.

But that would be just a tiny little to simple… there is just more to do BEFORE you install Joomla (or any other CMS for that matter)

In the next weeks or so you can read here about how to get started once you have gotten an Idea to create a website about.
You will be reading about:

• Domain name selection
• Keyword research
• Getting into the mind of your visitors
• Setting Up a website structure that is easy to use, good for your visitors and search engines
• Choosing a hosting company
• Choosing your template and layout
• Installing and fine-tuning Joomla SEO Components
• Writing Content and what to write Search Engine Optimized content
• Tracking visitors
• Promoting your website

As you can see there is a lot to cover and at the end I (and maybe you to) should have a website that is doing well in the Search Engines and is also great for your visitors.

What I am nog going to tell you, is what the sites URL is, just to keep things clean in the process.
Some of the things I am going to tell you will see at the end of the serie, but by then it should not have a large effect on the visitors number.

Warning! Don’t expect a high frequency of posts about this project, since some thing really taken time, however once a week I guess there should be an update on the project.

P.s. most of the things will also be applicable to a Joomla 1.0.x website.

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I was at a conference a few days ago, and as a follow-up you could visit a website with the presentations in a pdf format.
For me it is a lot easier to handle digital formats to store, than paperwork, so I went and downloaded them.

But is a was reading one of them concerning SEO, I read a definition of SEO that stated it means “Search Engine Optimalisation”
This one was new to me……..
The speaker is a well informed Search Engine Optimizer him self and is very good at it.
But now he got me more then a little curious.

What is the right term for what a Search Engine Optimizer does?

I did some soul searching but in the end run some Google queries.

With these results:
search engine optimalisation 21,900
search engine optimalization 22,900
search engine optimization 36,400,000
search engine optimisation 40.7007.700
I did the same with Live.com and Yahoo and:
DMOZ.org
No results on search engine optimalization
No results on search engine optimalisation
Open Directory Sites (1-20 of 1478) search engine optimization
Open Directory Sites (1-20 of 533) search engine optimisation

So I went to the best place in town to learn :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seo
Search engine optimization (SEO) is a subset of  search engine marketing, and deals with improving the number and/or quality of visitors to a web site from “natural” (aka “organic” or “algorithmic” search engine) listings.

Which brings also a nice historic point on SEO Contest (read it, just for inside knowledge)

A Good thing to me….. because I went for Joomla Optimization, lucky me!

But from the wikipedia article I now have a question for you:
SEM is it really Search Engine Marketing…..or should it be Search Engine Manipulation?

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