Joomla's default URLs, like the standard URLs of any CMS, are terrible for Search Engine Optimization purposes. They have several querystring parameters, they are not human readable, they offer search engines no keywords or insight into what content the page holds, and they use the Itemid parameter to create multiple URLs for each content item. Luckily there are Search Engine Friendly URL components available for Joomla that solve all these issues for us. 

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Here's a cool SEO tip that will automatically bring you more traffic from Google and other search engines:  Put a Random Content module on your homepage. It's better to have it on as many pages as possible, but the homepage is key. I discovered this trick while experimenting with a few different ideas over at http://www.patrickswesey.com.

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Most of the web sites you visit on a day-to-day basis have social bookmarking buttons under their blog posts, videos, or whatever type of content they feature. If you are reading this article then you probably already have these social bookmarking buttons on your own web site, or you're planning to do it soon. In either case you will need to put some thought into which buttons you want to place on your website. You'll need to choose as few as possible to keep things from getting too cluttered, but you also need to make sure you choose the ones that will benefit you the most. 

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Social bookmarking is a way for people to save their favorite webpages online. By using social bookmarking online people can access their favorite bookmarks from any computer and share them with other people. Bookmarks are usually stored with tags, single words that describe a page, making it easy for people to search for similar bookmarks or find bookmarks they have saved.

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