Hey JUGCNers,
We aren't meeting this month, however we are feverishly working on upcoming sessions! The next session will be on April 14th with guest presenter, Chicagoan Dave Crabill. The details are coming together and will be sent out shortly.
Despite our not meeting this month, the week of March 15th is a popular week for other JUG groups have some great sessions coming up. We will do our best to share the details with you about them.
Read on for what we know so far...
Improve Your Search Ranking by Adding Metadata to Your Template
Monday, March 15th 7 pm CST
(Tuesday, March 16th 00:00 UTC)
Bruce Moore will show how to choose a Joomla template and modify it to improve your search ranking--quickly. Google uses schema.org metadata to help parse a site, but some Joomla templates don't do a good job of putting adding these metadata tags to your pages and as a result don't rank well quickly.
Bruce ran for a local office in 2020 and had to build a website that would rank first quickly without costly search words--instead of a prominent person in the same town with the same name who Google initially ranked for all of page one. By paying close attention to metadata and SEO, Bruce's page ranked first within about 30 days, and stayed there through the election.
This session will show you how to evaluate templates for metadata use, and how to modify an existing template to improve metadata use and SEO.
Register at https://www.meetup.com/joomladallas to get the Zoom link for the meeting.