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A friend has asked me to take a look at her site and I need some help in understanding two issues:

  1. In the url, all the site’s pages have the address Accessible Niagara – Opening Niagara, Ontario to people with mobility impairment with only XX being different. Does this mean that all the pages are stored in a database?

  2. In looking at the code for any of the pages - and I have only a basic understanding - there appears to be a significant amount of code referring to advertising while the site does not have any advertised links. Is that the result of Joomla coding a page for “everything” and then just turning items “on” and “off” for the customer?

Any clarification would be appreciated.

Bryan


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Yes, and Yes. Joomla is a Swiss Army knife, and you may only be using
the toothpick!

Walter


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Does this mean that all the pages are stored in a database?

Joomla is CMS system which stores its content in a MySql database which populates template pages on request hence the seemingly strange URLs

As to the advertising question - I haven’t looked at the site code so not sure about that one.

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Thanks for the info guys!


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And the real question Bryan is what she wants you to do with it once you have looked at it?

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The friend has been quoted a cost of $500 to insert new meta data on 22 pages and it seems that the decision she has to make is whether to continue going further along the Joomla path.


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The whole point of Joomla is that it’s easy enough for a layperson to
administer their own site. Metadata is added in the admin console,
which your friend should have the password to. It’s just a matter of
getting into the content editing part of the admin site, and clicking
on each page listed there in turn. The keywords and description meta
tags are entered on the right side of the screen in the old version of
Joomla, haven’t used the latest version but it’s probably similar.

Walter

On Mar 11, 2011, at 9:57 PM, Bryan Irvine wrote:

The friend has been quoted a cost of $500 to insert new meta data on
22 pages and it seems that the decision she has to make is whether
to continue going further along the Joomla path.


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Thanks for the help Walt.


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joomla metatags are dead easy.
There’s a place in the site configuration to do the global tags and
as Walt said,each section, category and page (called articles in
joomla) has a place for more relevant tags.
The time put into to identifying which tags will help is the real
cost in seo, There are several free tools to help with that.
Also, remember that google and other search engines will discount
metatags if too few of them appear in the copy on the page they’re
associated with.

On Mar 11, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Bryan Irvine wrote:

Thanks for the help Walt.


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Thanks Ginjg for the re-direct to the free tools. Stumbled upon the extnsions.joomla.org page


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