The aim of this guide is to help and support subscribers to WYNCHCO Joomla! CMS Support.
If you actively manage a Joomla!® CMS website in a UK business, academy school or third sector organisation then you may also find this guide useful.
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Is your website using a no longer fully supported version of Joomla! CMS?
The Joomla! Project™ no longer provides bug and security fix support for the following versions of its CMS (except where indicated in the list below):
- Joomla! 1.0.
- Joomla! 1.5.
- Joomla! 2.5.
- Joomla! 3.x.
- Joomla! 4.x (security fix support ends in October 2025).
If your website is still using one of the no longer supported versions listed above, we can help.
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Joomla! 5 Official Documentation
Get it straight from the horse's mouth!
List of Contents
Fixing Broken Links
Headings and Titles
HTML alt Attribute
HTML title Attribute
Keyword Strategy
Menu Item Aliases
Meta Tags
Reduce Bounce Rates
Rich Content
Search Engine Friendly Page Navigation
Search Engine Friendly Robots TXT File
Schema.org Plugin
Search Engine Friendly URLs
SEF Plugin
Site Map Extensions
Speed up your website
Use an SSL Certificate with your website
Useful SEO Web Links
Signposting used in this guide
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Search Engines
Two very popular search engines in the UK are Google and Bing.
Each provide a range of tools to help you improve your website's performance in search engine results.
Bing Webmaster Tools
Google Search Console
Google Search Console was previously called Google Webmaster Tools.
To open the Search Console, first sign into Google, open a new tab and visit the following link:
Google Search Console may help you improve and optimize your website.
Google Analytics 4
Google Analytics 4 replaced Universal Analytics on 1 July 2023.
Read more: Introduction to Google Analytics 4
Useful Google Analytics 4 Links.
Using the Google Analytics 4 Tracking Code
Step 1: Consider the pros and cons of using a Tracking Code with your website.
This useful September 2022 Joomla! Community Magazine article considered:
- whether or not you would be better off without a Tracking Code, amd
- some alternative options for analysing website traffic.
Read more: The alternatives to using a Tracking Code
Step 2: Create a Tracking Code.
This October 2022 Joomla! Community Magazine article outlined how to create a Tracking Code.
Read more: How to create a Google Analytics 4 Tracking Code for your website
Step 3: Add a Tracking Code to your website.
The optimal way to do this is by means of editing your website's template.
Read more: How to add the Tracking Code to your website.
Google Analytics and GDPR
If you are using Google Analytics with your website then you could unwittingly find yourself on the wrong side of relevant data protection laws in some jurisdictions.
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Disclaimer
We do not guarantee that your website's performance in search engines will improve as a result of making any one change to your website's structure, navigation or content.
No-one can provide such a guarantee.
Your personal data is nobody's business.