Joomla! 3 SEO and Performance

Simon Kloostra’s book, Joomla! 3 SEO and Performance, is a very focused, short book that is chock full of useful tips and links to resources that Joomla! website developers and administrators may not be aware of. As a long-time Joomla! user and founding member of the Northern Virginia Joomla! Users Group, I find that this book fills a gap on my Joomla! bookshelf. Simon Kloostra (see his site at joomlaseo.com) is clearly an authority on Joomla! and SEO, but he avoids unnecessary jargon, provides context, and explains SEO in a clear and pleasant style. As of the date of this review, the book is quite current. It includes evaluations of and recommendations for dozens of resources to consider for your toolkit. One frequent question in user group meetings is which commercial template provider is best. This book does get specific and list well-regarded template providers, and also delves into the SEO considerations of template design. This which gives the site developers something more to consider in making their template selection or development decisions. Perhaps even more valuable is his coverage of ways to maximize Joomla! performance. We have all seen sites that are slower than they need to be; this book explains what to do about it and provides a clear explanation of caching options and ways to optimize both css and javascript files. Even those with good backgrounds in SEO and Joomla! will find additional insights that will justify their investment in buying and reading this book. Joomla! 3 SEO and Performance

This book is a list of the most essential things a web designer must do in order to achieve the requirements of search engines and finally, a good ranking. I write this review as a SEO beginner, not as expert. In the process of reading I highlighted most of the titles and key phrases in the book that represent the elements of a list that is good enough for a beginner to start their web site optimization. The book contains many useful links and extension recommendations for Joomla that helped me to deeply reconsider all my work flow as a web designer. Consider this book as a starting reference that can be extended with the recommendations of other authors as well.

This was a very helpful and up to date book written exactly for my needs. The fact that it addressed the subject in practical detail as well as the fact that it was up to date with Joomla 3.4 was very helpful. I am impressed with all of the practical hints I received from the book. I suggest this on a short list of must read book for Joomla users.

Great content, covers everything I wanted to see and learn about. But the book seriously needed someone to proof it and typeset it better than the local desktop publisher. There are typos from start to finish, sometimes two or three on a page if you include grammar. And the page layout is terrible, the terms widows and orphans apparently is not in this typesetters vocabulary. So it makes the book difficult to read at times and you have to play a game of which word would make the most since that is missing or is the incorrect word. When grammar, spelling and incorrect words bother me, that is saying something since my grammar and spelling is horrible.

This is a great resource and checklist for website SEO. It provides tips on standard SEO topics as well as SEO extensions, image optimization, SEO audits, cache settings etc. It's163 pages is a good summary of website management for SEO and performance.

When the subject is SEO I'm just a beginner and this book really helped me a lot. It covers all Joomla SEO core possibilities and many essential extensions. The Performance part of the book It's also excellent. After applying some guidelines on a client website the loading time became twice faster and the Google rankings start to improve.

This is perhaps the best Joomla book I have bought so far. The author discussed several extensions that were invaluable for improving the speed of my Joomla website. There were also a lot of insights that I feel you would only get from using Joomla for many years.

I thought I was familiar with a great deal of SEO but this book told me a lot I hadn't realized, taking me into areas of Joomla I'd not known about. It's compact, clearly written, very accessible. Just the ticket.

Love this book - 75% through it and have found lots of tips and help. Although not very old it is a little out of date (for example some Extension developers have changed their names). Better than other resources that I have used. - books and websites.

You lack of SEO knowledge in Joomla? This book is for you: Clear, precise and illustrated with concretes examples, a must!

What a fantastic book, covers the subject in real depth, very well written, it would be a great benefit to all Joomla 3 users, developers and website owners.