I would like to take the initiative to help the new Joomla family members installing Joomla 1.5.x version on their server

Please follow the following steps

1. Download latest joomla package from http://www.joomla.org/download.html
2. Decompress the file downloaded
3. Login to your FTP server
4. Upload the extracted files on the server
5. Now open your web browser IE, Firefox etc.
6. Access the site http://www.yourwebsite.com you will get first installation page.
7. In first page, you will choose language. Default en-GB - English. Click Next button on top right.
8. Next step, Joomla will check your system before installation. On top part, your system must match with requirement. If not, your Joomla installation not functioning correctly. There are several recommended setting on bottom page. If your settings do not quite match the recommended, it will be red warning on actual column. You can fix it or leave. Click next button to continue.
9. Next page about licence. Read carefully. Click next button.
10. Next page about database configuration. Before configure, make sure you made a database for joomla. These must already exist for the database you are going to use.If not ready, open your phpmyadmin. Create a new database, for example give name “joomla”.Then, fulfill all item at database configuration. Click next button.
11. Next page about FTP Configuration, Provide the FTP Details and Click Next button.
12. Next page about site configuration. Enter your site name, email and admin password.Click Install Sample Data button.Then, Click Next button.
13. If you get statement “Congratulations! Joomla! is installed.”, your steps successfull.
14. The last step, remove folder installation from your joomla install directory.

If you want look site, click Site button. Or click Admin button for login to administration page.

Using Joomla 1. 5 to Target Keywords for Search Engine Optimization

This article is about writing SEO content for your Joomla 1 .5 web site and matching up that content to your Joomla sites Meta, Title, and Descriptions.

First think in your head what you plan to write about and select your primary keywords for your article. Go to Google.com's Free keyword look up tool. Type in the primary key word you want to target for example "Joomla SEO" Google will come back with minimal information but enough for you too look at what keywords that have the most traffic. The more popular the keyword the more results you see. Make sure you scroll all the way to the botom and look at the defined keyword you typed. look and compare it to the other keywords that are related. When you find your primary keyword with the most traffic write it down. Next pick out 1 or 2 more that you will use as sub keywords in your writing. This leaves you with 1 primary Keywords and 2 additional sub keywords. Try to keep your keywords to less then 3 word phrases.

At this point you should have the article you want to write about in your head, a list of your primary keywords and 1 or 2 more related keywords. Now its time to write your article.

Write your article with lots of complex words with 3 or more syllables. Don't hurt yourself thinking of big words. Just write naturally and the words will come to you. You should try to write your article with your primary keywords stated in a natural way. You should list your primary keyword every couple of sentences and season in your other 2 sub keywords. Don't over stuff your article with your primary keywords. Think of this rule in your head "always write naturally and season your article with more then less of your primary keywords. Don't forgot about proper English and spelling the search engine is smart and reads like a college professor would."

Another point for Joomla 1.5 site  is that you should disable all the auto Title functions. (Content>Article Manager>Parameters) These are not good for SEO. No need for the PDF icons replicating your content or the time of who it was wrote the article. Keep everything simple and use aka headings tags instead. Make sure you season your heading tags with your keywords.

Lets talk SEO and Meta for Joomla 1.5.

After you finish your article and your holding your primary keywords in your hands. Your title should have about 6 - 12 Keywords. Your description should have about 200 Characters. The same description should be between 12 and 24 words. Keywords should be less then 1000 characters. You should have your primary title and description keywords listed in the meta keywords and vice versa. You should keep your keywords to less then 48 words.

Again these are only recommendations and not to be followed like a bible. The goal of this article is to give you the basics of targeting keywords that you want to come up under in the search engine. This will be the start to your doing your own SEO and preparing to get your specific keywords to the top of the search engine.

If you would like a free basic SEO consultation contact us and we would be glad to talk to you about your needs. We love Joomla Search Engine Optimization and we think its fun to try to get to the top of the search engine.

If you are looking for the SEO do-it-yourself package we advise you sign up for our Joomla hosting package and get a free Joomla SEO install.

Don't start a site and plan to do SEO later. Make it part of your core business. SEO is something you do over years not in a couple of weeks. SEO should be one of the foundations of any serious online business.