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Understanding the Joomla Content Structure

Filed Under: Joomla! General, Seo Basics

Some people have a hard time understanding the Structure that is used in Joomla to organize the Content.

But it is not that hard to understand if you look at it from a different angle.

Joomla is a Content Management System that in the core can be compared with a Study book.

 
Joomla Section Joomla Sections

The section part of Joomla can be look at as the main parts of a Book.

Like for example an Atlas, the Section are the Continents.

Joomla category Joomla Categories

The categories in Joomla can be classified as the Chapters of a Book

In the Atlas example, these are the country's in each of the continents.

Joomla Content Item Joomla Content Item

The Joomla Content items are the pages in a book, each containing information to make a Chapter.

In the Atlas example, these could be pages that describe the Geological ans Social economics of a Country.

Putting it all in Perspective

If you look at the structure of this site, you will see how its build…
First there are sections about Joomla, WordPress and Drupal.

The Joomla Section is split up into categories as:

  • Joomla General
  • Joomla Modules
  • Joomla Themes
  • Joomla Components
  • Mambots and Plugins
  • Joomla Search Engine Optimization

One example of a content Item is this page, which is in the category “Joomla General”

The Joomla Content Structure explained

Keep this structure in mind if you are going to build your website in Joomla.
Make Sure you have drawn the structure on paper before building it in Joomla, it will save you a lot of headache afterwards…

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Building a Search Engine Optimized Website
How to SEO Your Joomla website
Setting Up a Blog with Joomla
The Difference between WordPress Pages and Posts

Tagged With: building, category, content, item, Joomla, section, struture 1 Comment

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  1. How to Optimize you Joomla site with Keywords and categories says:
    February 1, 2013 at 6:56 am

    […] You see, where may people think of the rigid structure of Joomla for placing content is a bad thing, it is actually a great thing for SEO. In Joomla you have to set up a structure in Section, Categories and Items which is pretty simple as you can read on Understanding the Joomla structure […]

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