How to set custom page titles in Joomla 1.5 for
better SEO
The Joomla CMS default behaviour is that Page titles of the Joomla
Articles created are always set to the
page Title assigned
to each of the articles.
This is not very good behaviour in terms of SEO, as the page title
of each link on the main page is different and there is no
continuous repeating pattern in all of the joomla pages.
Everyone that has even basic idea of SEO knows that page titles are
very important weight factor to make indexing inside Search Engines
succesful.
There is a well know SEO rule which is the more reoccuring pattern
one has in his page titles, more is stressed on the keywords
contained in the title.
As I said for some weird reason Joomla has no common page Title for
all my the created Article pages linked via the
Main
Menu*
Thus in order to improve this bad default Joomla SEO behaviour one
has to change the default auto assigned titles for created pages,
manually.
Two things are necessery to change each of the joomla already
existing
TITLES.
1. Go to each of the pages (.e.g. Home etc.) and change the
Parameters System Page Title settings
After logging in with administrator in Joomla, navigate to
Menus -> Main Menu*
Further on choose a menu item from all your existing items, let's
say
Home and click on it.
On the left side below the
Save, Apply, Close and Help
buttons you will notice the menus:
Parameters (Basic), Parameters (Component), Parameters
(System)
When clicked on
Parameters (System) a submenu will
appear:
Above is a screenshot of the up-described Parameters (System)
[Page Title] location
You need to change where it reads CHANGE THE TITLE HERE
!!!!!! ;)
After entering your own desired page title go and save the article
via the Apply or Save button (also visible in the
screenshot).
Now as the custom Page Title is set, next step is to enable the
custom Page Title for the respective Article in Article
Manager
2. Enable custom Page Title for created pages in
Joomla
Go to the Artciel Manager by following the menus:
Content -> Article Manager
Select the Article of which you want to change the Page Title to
some custom text and click over it.
As the article opens for edit in an html editor, navigate to
Parameters (Advanced) tab and therein change the Show Title
from default setting value:
Use Global
to
Yes
Once again use the Save or Apply button to confirm the new settings
and open your website in a new tab, try to browse and check the
title of the articles parameters just edited. It should show up in
the Title (page heaading) the custom input Title.
Now repeat the same procedure for all pages (Articles), existing in
Joomla to attune the Page Titles to some Google friendly strings
and enjoy the better Search engine indexing which should likely
follow.