Impact on SEO

[chadibenstein]

I'm just about to start blogging so have a beginner's question. Wordpress is described as having a lot of tools available for supporting SEO. Will these tools generally work just as well with Wordbridge as with Wordpress itself?

[vittala]

Hi
Providing SEOs for your blog post depends on you doing things like using titles properly, providing alternative and title text for links and images in your posts, having well structured and linked content. These items that are used in your posts will appear on the Joomla side, so will be equally well treated by a search engine indexing the original post, or the post as seen through WordBridge.
In Joomla, you are able to use SEO friendly URLs and these will work for your posts provided through WordBridge.
SEO plugins on the WordPress side that add extra content into posts (such as meta-data tags) will have no effect on posts displayed through WordBridge. However, there are SEO equivalents for Joomla that you can use.

Regards
Vittal

[EmilyHerr]

I've noticed that wordbridge pulls in the post id and appends it to the beginning of each slug. Is this necessary in order for it to function? It's not user friendly and makes for hard-to-remember URLs.

Example: localhost/joomla/index.php/blog/post/300-whats-up

And If I'm being picky, the "post" part of the URL is kind of redundant as well and ideally should be removed.

[vittala]

Hi @wdac-davy

Yes, we need the IDs in the slug to correctly identify the unique posts.
I notice that you have index.php showing in your URLs. You can make friendlier URLs (without the index.php part) if you follow the steps here: https://docs.joomla.org/Enabling_Search_Engine_Friendly_%28SEF%29_URLs

Regards
Vittal

[EmilyHerr]

Hmm, that's too bad. I'm aware of how to go about taking out the index.php;
I had only installed the plugin on my local testing environment to see how
it worked and noticed the number in the URL.

Davy Hoerr - Web Developer
St Louis SEO & Content Marketing Expert
Email: [email protected]
Office: 314-499-8253

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Vittal Aithal [email protected]
wrote:

Hi @wdac-davy https://github.com/wdac-davy

Yes, we need the IDs in the slug to correctly identify the unique posts.
I notice that you have index.php showing in your URLs. You can make
friendlier URLs (without the index.php part) if you follow the steps here:
https://docs.joomla.org/Enabling_Search_Engine_Friendly_%28SEF%29_URLs

Regards
Vittal

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