In addition to the information contained in my article, improving your search engine ranking on Google, this article, covering some more tips and suggestions on your websites Google search engine results placement, will assist your website in acheiving top search engine rankings.

If you have done any reading on Google search engine results placement, you will know that essentially, Google ranks a page depending on the number of quality links it has pointing to it.  If we had two identical pages and one had 50 quality incoming links and the other had 10 quality incoming links, the page with more links would rank higher.

It is imperative that the search engines index all of your webpages, so that they are aware of each pages content and are in a position to serve them in the search engines results pages.  If you own one of the many websites where only certain pages have been discovered, then this Joomla SEO article will help you get the major search engines to index all of your webpages.

I am often asked the question, Why is my website not ranking in the search engines??  There are numerous reasons why a particular web page, or infact website would not rank in the search engines.  I have collated these into this article and have provided links to other information, like how to create search engine friendly websites, that I recommend you familiarise yourself with, to better understand how to get your web pages into the search engines results pages.

Although Joomla does have some SEO tools included in the core application, they are turned off by default and even after these have been activated, the webpages are still not truely search engine ready, this is not the only issue though, there are other Joomla SEO problems that also play a crucial role in your websites lack of performance in the search engines.

In recent times HTML and CSS validation has become a hot topic in webmaster circles, with many points of view on its importance and the correct approach to take, when creating search engine friendly websites.  In the below article on HTML and CSS validation, I will touch on a few different perspectives and attempt to provide you with my best practise approach to HTML and CSS validation.

Over the years we have had numerous enquiries from webmasters and website administrators, asking why are my web pages not ranking in the search engines?  Generally, one of the problems is that they have not built search engine friendly websites.  Below are a few pointers on search optimization to help you ensure that you design search engine friendly websites.