OpenSEF Will Be Back
Great news for those of you with OpenSEF installed on your sites. Zorro over at blogged about this. Those of you like me with high-school German or less can read the remarkably good translation from Google. This is great…
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New Version of sh404SEF
Of all the Search Engine Friendly URL components released under the GPL, sh404SEF is the most active project. Yannick Gaultier has taken the old 404SEF codebase and added a host of new and improved features. The latest update is no…
Great SEO Improvements in Joomla 1.5
One of the questions I hear most often on the Joomla SEO Forums and at Joomla.org is: "Will Joomla 1.5 be any better for SEO than 1.0.12?" The answer, we’re pleased to say is yes. Behind the scenes work is…
Which Forum is Best for SEO?
An interesting question over on our Joomla SEO Forum: "Why did you use VBulletin for the forum instead of Fireboard?"
Business opportunities in the Joomla world
I’ve been following the Joomla GPL debate really closely, but have stayed away from blogging about my opinion. I’m not a 3rd party developer, nor I am I knowledgeable enough about the GPL to add more to the debate than…
How to Add Funky Fonts to Your Joomla Site
We’ve had a 24-hour make-over on Alledia. Throughout today we’re using the SimSun font for all headlines on the site. Its made possible by a cool technology called sIFR (or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement), created by Mike Davidson. It solves…
Add your Virtuemart Products to Froogle
I’m very careful about recommending products on this blog, plugging only about 10% of the stuff that gets sent. Thats mainly because so many developers harvest email addresses and send out a mass mailing. Just a two-line, personalised message and…
Joomla Extension of the Month – July 07
This month’s award goes to one of the best Joomla extensions and one that is almost certainly the most under-appreciated. JACLPlus is a hack that allows you to create an unlimited number of new user groups and give them fine-grained…
Automapping and Duplicate Content
This post is a follow-up to our previous discussion of automapping, and why it can be really useful in helping you avoid duplicate content problems on your Joomla site. For those of still thinking about how to handle duplicate content,…
Can Some Domains Extensions Hurt your SEO?
There’s a great thread over at Domainstate.com, reacting to the news that ICANN, who control top-level domains on the Internet, have decided to create yet more extensions. After the runaway success of .aero, .coop, .museum and .name, people are clearly…