Joomla And Its Disadvantages

Joomla is the available option for those web site owners that wish to have an open source content management system platform for their site in the internet. For some SEO web design experts, this type of platform is advantageous, but not for all.

An SEO Norway expert has examined this platform and found it has the typical makeup of most online platforms used for hosting web sites. It’s make up is basic. The code is written in PHP format and the data is stored in MySQL. The features include page caching, RSS feeds, pages can be converted for easy printable versions, and it supports multiple languages.  On its pages can be news flashes, blogs, a search box, and polls.

This software was first introduced to the world back in 2005 and had since established a small but loyal following. Of the top 10,000 sites on the WWW, 200 of them use this platform for hosting their site.

The main complaint from the users of Joomla is that it is a resource drainer for the servers that host the site. Because of this, if your site becomes popular and the traffic hits are over 50,000 visitors a day, the site will usually crash unless an web design expert has tweaked the code to accommodate the traffic and properly allocate the resources it is demanding from the server. This is one area of expertise the SEOSEO Trondheim team from Golden Way Media knows extensively.

The complexity of Joomla is its strength and weakness. The ability to have deep level navigation with different sections and pages branching out can be advantageous, but it is also overdone to the point of confusion for some.

Another known problem is that the Joomla RSS feeds only are functional from components on the front or landing page of your website. With this limit, notification of updates that are buried deep in your site will not be noticed. Linkbuilding SEO techniques do help go around this problem but only with limited results.

Joomla uses a non-web standard code at the present time. There are hints that this will be phased out which will make the SEO easier. But at present, Google and the other search engines will list your site, but not like doing so. Except for changing the color of the site and your logo, most changes are complicated and even an experienced SEO web design expert will not be able to work with this code efficiently at first.  To add to the problems, most templates are from different third party sources that all tweak their templates just a little differently. These differences are enough to make the learning curve of SEOing your site a complex maze of unknowns for any outside SEO expert assistance to help in a timely manner.

On the brighter side, because of its complex nature and the rarity of its use, your site has very little chance of being hacked. This is because there are so few sites using this code and format that it would not be beneficial for an SEO hacker to learn it.