Wow – Server Move Finally Completed
Hi All Apologies for skipping the regular post today – we’ve been busy moving all our company and clients sites to a dedicated server. Some of our clients run sports sites and are about to get hit hard by traffic…
Steve
March Update to Search Engine Optimization Test
As reported in earlier posts (launch post, first update and second update) we’re running a test comparing the search engine optimization capabilites of Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. We created three sites, Jabalpur.net.in (WordPress) Amritsar.net.in (Drupal) and Vadodara.net.in (Joomla). Each website…
Is Social Networking Right for Your Site?
Five things to consider before adding social networking features to your site, or even more seriously, launching a 100% social networking site: It is absurdly difficult to monetize even a very successful social networking site. Facebook has a click-through rate…
Free Joomla Templates and Great CSS Advice
Its great to see people in the Joomla community taking the time and effort to build free sites that are genuninely useful resources. Today, I’ll highlight two of the very best: Joomla24.com Back in the Mambo days, when I was…
Simple Machines Forum, Joomla and SEO Part 3
MoonRay, one of the developers over at Joomlaspan.com has been developing a lot of useful tools for Joomla. We use his Google Translation module on the right side of our site, and it really gets a lot of heavy usage.…
Simple Machines Forum, Joomla and SEO Part 2
Yesterday we compared the metadata produced by three different forum setups for Joomla sites: Simple Machines integrated with Joomla Simple Machines unintegrated with Joomla VBulletin Today, we’re going to take that a step further and see how well…
Simple Machines Forum, Joomla and SEO Part 1
Now that Joomla has been around for 18 months, some of its forums are starting to get pretty big. They are becoming potentially huge SEO assets for the accompanying websites. Although not comprehensive, this is a list of some of…
Dashes or Underscores? Setting up your Joomla SEO
In the last couple of weeks, we’ve heard the great news that the default version of Joomla 1.5 will produce more Search Engine Friendly URLs than the current package. The forum post has turned from happiness to suggestions about what…
Why Does Google trust some Joomla Sites more than others?
Search for Joomla (click here to try it) and you get something that has been apperaring more and more in Google search results. Joomla.org is at the top with four extra links underneath: Obviously, this is a pretty good situation…
Why I’d Love Joomla Developers to Stop Encoding Components
Those of you who know me realise I rarely, rarely get worked up ….. I think this is the first time I’ve used this blog to blow off steam. Its so rare, I’ve even had to create a whole new…