Review of Joomla! a Users Guide by Barrie North
Barrie North has been a prolific writer about Joomla over the last few years. This is a review of his latest book called “Joomla! a Users Guide” about how to run a Joomla 1.5 website.
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Open Question: SEO Changes in Joomla 1.6
Joomla recently announced that they’re looking for white papers, proposing ways to make the next version even better than 1.5. So, together with some of Joomla’s brightest SEO minds, we’ve taken up the challenge and are writing a paper with…
Congratulations to Some Joomla Fans
A big congratulations today to one of our former clients. We mentioned Bleacher Report back in 2006 when we explained how we helped them get accepted to Google News. They have a very smart business model that we’ve seen several…
5 Joomla Components Harmful to Your SEO
An entirely subjective list of five components that I’ve found to cause SEO problems on Joomla sites:
Review of SmartSEF
Richard and his team from Joomlatwork have been busy. Just a couple of weeks after releasing the SEF Patch, which greatly improves Joomla 1.5 metadata, they’ve launched SmartSEF, which greatly improves Joomla 1.5 URLs. Here’s our review of the beta…
Joomla Indexing Tool
{mosloadposition user8} What Does This Tool Do? It shows if your Joomla site has indexing problems in any of three major search engines: Google, Yahoo and MSN. Instructions Part 1: Add these two numbers: Administrator > Content > All Content…
Joomla Extension of the Month – February 08
Our Extension of the Month for 2008 is a very worthy winner, because it overcomes several important limitations in Joomla’s core. Joomla’s default search component has several issues: You can’t enter a query of more than 20 characters You can’t…
Review of the SEF Patch for Joomla 1.5
If you’ve been reading this blog for more than a few days, you’ll know I strongly recommend two components to improve SEO on Joomla 1.0: sh404SEF from extensions.siliana.net SEF Patch from joomlatwork.com ( winner of an "Extension of the Month"…
Joomla 1.5 and SEO Components
Joomla 1.5 is now two weeks old and more compatible components are being released every day. For those of you interested in SEO, I thought I might write a short post about the status of SEO components for 1.5:
New Recommended Providers Page
Here at Alledia, we specialize in design and SEO work for Joomla and are available for custom work in those areas. However, we often get requests from people who are searching for experts, particularly when it comes to PHP /…