Joomla instead of WordPress and some Joomla SEO Works for Improvement

Joomla instead of WordPress and some Joomla SEO Works

After writing my last Joomla SEO Blog post, I started working on a Clients website with WordPress as Content Management System.

However running more into the project I hit some technical difficulties in getting the content together in a Joomla SEO Site structure (no, not the layout) to get an optimal results for Search Engine Optimization.

So I made the decision to offer the client to redo the site with Joomla, also since his site content was much more than I initially saw on this old Flash based website…
And yes, in this case Joomla was better for the larger static Website then the Chronologic base WordPress Blogging platform (although you can build a Static Website with WordPress, this one needed more structure…

The layout of the site was based on a PDF example made by a graphical designer.
Is is always a challenge to get such a design into a WordPress, Joomla or Drupal template, but it works ‘almost’ every time.

But as you might have guessed, this project took a lot more time out of my Blogging and Joomla SEO efforts than I would have liked.
The site is done know, it needs to get approved and put on-line now so that we can do some more SEO for it.
The site structure is now optimized, and well formed on the Layout Design as well.

Lesson learned form this… make sure you get all the info you need before taking on a project!
Note to myself: Project assessment must be done better next time…

Joomla SEO month

I did read some fast things here and there and found some great stuff on the Joomla front:
One of the posts writing about Joomla 1.6 and SEO is this one http://www.goodwebpractices.com/joomla/joomla-1.6-seo.html a really great read!
And there is the Joomla SEO Wiki, set up by Johan Janssens as an effort to provide the Joomla Forum with a White paper or suggestions on where to go an the SEO Field with Joomla 1.6.
You can read some of the suggestions and information given there and see the suggestions on the Joomla White-papers on SEO posted there by the Team member Steve Burge of Alledia Joomla SEO Club, great Job Steve!

O, and if you got the time, the money and the need, it is really a great idea to go to his Joomla Training in Chicago after the JoomlaEXPO 2008 Chicago

I don’t live anywhere near the Chicago area, and I don’t even have the time to go the Joomla Dagen in Nederland which are this weekend…

They are Building bridges, so they have other people coming in on Drupal, TYPO3, Plone/Zope and sugarCRM.
Well, I just have to wait for the posts and articles…

You will see some more post on several SEO aspects the next weeks, as I am working on some posts on Joomla 1.5 SEO and looking at the new version of WordPress 2.5 which also has some nice features!

Stay tuned, and thank you for your patience!