Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve started to notice a new branding trend: companies with famous logos are leveraging their brand recognition to promote their websites. I first saw this watching a TV show on NBC (for those of…
This month’s Extension of the Month has caused more excitement about a component release than almost anything else I can remember in the short history of Joomla. Fireboard has caused people to sit up and pay attention because it is…
My friend Scott over at FishSEO, has pointed out that a new WordPress theme generator is available. The script gives you remarkable control over everything from the position and color of the sidebar to the color of almost every kind…
If I could sum up Joomla SEO in the shortest possible way, it would be "control your URLs". Over the course of analyzing many Joomla sites, I’ve seen all sorts of wierd URLs. Sometimes it will be a third part…
For those of you that haven’t read it yet, there’s a fascinating post over on the Joomla forums, that touches on many crucial questions for the project. The thread started innocuously when one member posted a “Things I don’t like…
Yesterday we took a detailed look at whether having lots of links from templates can help companies to rank well in the search engines. The answer was "yes" in MSN, but generally "no" in Google and Yahoo. Today we’re…
Pete Russell over at Joomla! Juice! is running a competition where two lucky prize winners will win a copy of our Joomla SEO e-Book worth $37 US plus a copy of Emir Sakic’s SEF Advance Component valued at $54 US.…
One of the most interesting things about working for clients is that they’ll ask questions I don’t know the answer to. This happened last week. The question was: "I have lots of incoming links from templates that we sell.…
Please click here to download the book. Note: Over the last few weeks, we’ve been working hard to expand the book online. We’ve added 8 new chapters and dozens of new articles. Unfortunately that means that this PDF is not…
I’ve just been tagged by my friend Scott Fish over at FishSEO.com. The question is, “Why Do I Blog?” Its a simple question, and deserves a simple answer. Blogging helps me deal more successfully with three groups of people: