Nooku 0.6 puts focus on SEO

Monday, 29 September 2008 15:44

At the beginning of the month we announced our survey results from our August survey. One of the most interesting feedback we received was the request for better search engine optimization and search engine friendly URL support in Nooku.

Today, if you want to create a multi-lingual search engine optimized Joomla website you need to install a multi-tude of different extensions (multi-lingual, search engine friendly URLs, metadata, etc...) . Not anymore ! Nooku 0.6 will offer all these features out of the box. What can you expect to see in our 0.6 version :

  • Improved search engine friendly (SEF) URL's. Nooku 0.6 will be able to remove any numeric information from the URL's resulting in very clean and fully search engine optimized URL's.
  • Alias validation. Nooku 0.6 will be able to prevent duplicated aliases for content items (articles, weblinks, categories, etc...). It will also be able to correctly convert a title into an alias on the fly for almost any language.
  • Improved metadata support. Nooku 0.6 will allow you to define keywords, description and author information for menu items and translate them. This feature will allow you to translate not only what the user reads but also what a search engine reads.
  • Redirect support. Nooku 0.6 will offer a new menu type called 'redirect', which will allow you to create a search engine friendly URL that will redirect to an external website.
  • Smarter page titles. Nooku 0.6 will optimize the way Joomla! 1.5 creates its page titles to help improve your search engine rankings. 

With the addition of these new features Nooku is slowly evolving into a multi-lingual content manager and will not only be off interest to people who are publishing multi-lingual websites. People who are publishing uni-lingual websites will also benefit from the new search engine optimization features in Nooku 0.6 and the already great workflow optimizations that Nooku 0.5 offers.

On top of that we are also adding a new plugin system that will allow integrators to extend Nooku easily together with a number of smaller improvements and performance optimizations to make your Joomla site run faster.