Joomla – Uploading and linking different types of files such as PDF’s

Step 1:
From your control panel click on the “media manager” icon.

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At the bottom of the page you will see a place to browse for the PDF, Click on the browse button and you can now navigate to the file.
Once you have selected your file click on the “start upload” button. Once it’s completed the file will appear in the space above.

Step 2:

Now go to the article manager from your main control panel and edit the wall insulation page and highlight the text that you wish to link and then click on the link icon. On the pop up you can now change the URL to:

/images/yourfilename.pdf

And finally save changes. (Images is the default location where everything is uploaded to via the media manager.)

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How it works

You sign-up to their website and place an ad on your website that looks very similar to Google ads and every time your page is loaded showing an ad, Adsflip will give you 1 credit!

That’s how simple it is!

You can then also create an ad and choose which category your website fits into such as “Internet” and then add your keywords, URL etc
Once complete you can then assign how many of your credits you would like to give to your ad and that’s it, it will now show on all content related websites untill your credits balance is 0. ( in which time you have made more from your site)

Advantages to your site:

• Promoting your site to loads of sites!

• Extra traffic!

• And best of all its free!

Its still in its beta stage so there is bound to be a few bugs but I would recommend get signed up and get some free traffic!

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A Quick Guide to SEO

What is SEO?

For those of your that don’t know SEO stands for search engine optimisation in the basic sense of the word, making your site more search engine friendly so it can find your pages better and hopefully increase your weight with serach engines in turn bringing more traffic.

What does it involve doing?

There are a few sides to SEO but the main things involved that need to be optimised in your websites are:

1. title i.e. Anything that’s between <title> and </title> in your pages head tags. For an example

Yoursite.com – Welcome to this Great Books Website

2. Your websites Meta description. Example:

<meta name=”description” content=”Great stores is based in the UK and provides great books and great prices!” />

3. Your websites keywords, Example:

<meta name=”keywords” content=”books, affordable prices”>

4. Finally submitting your site to quality sites.

How can I optimise my site?

 
- <!–[endif]–>Meta Title:

 To start, think about the keywords you would like to be listed for and what words you think people type in search engines that relate to your website.

In this example we sell books but “books” by its self is a very common search term we will need to be more specific if we want to rank high. So let’s take “affordable Books”.

Now we have the keyword you must try and fit it into your Meta title, things to remember when placing keywords:

Positioning – placement of the keyword can be important try and place it towards the front and not at the end!

Length – don’t make your title to long.

So ours is now: Yoursite.com – Affordable books at the Great book store, UK

<!–[if !supportLists]–>- <!–[endif]–>Meta Description

Your description is also very important try and places your search keywords toward the front of your description. Also try and create an informative but short description with everything that is appealing. More and more people will read the description in google and then click on the link,  if they like what they read rather than just clicking on the number 1 site.

Things to remember:

Don’t go over 200 characters as Google won’t show much more past this.

- <!–[endif]–>Meta keywords

Keywords need to follow the pattern you have created you should add the main keyword you want people to search for near to the front as you have done before. To find out what keywords you may benefit from one option is to view the source of other websites that rank top 10 in the search engines and check their keywords! Although keywords are becoming less of a factor but always worth adding.

- <!–[endif]–>Link Submitting

Check Out the Link on the right.

Final thought

Hopefully this has given you a brief insight into SEO and how to go about optimising your pages. There are many different opinions and ways of optimisation but this will give you a step in the right direction.

Please leave your comments and thoughts and SEO success with any different techniques.