A short and sweet post today, following up yesterday’s discussion about making your Joomla site smaller and faster. Someone over at Digg recently pointed out that if Digg made one small change they could save thousands of dollars in hosting…
Over the last few years, we’ve seen revelations about the huge amounts of data that Google collects about us, our websites, our browsing habits and our lives in general. Wikipedia has a list of everything Google knows about you, and…
1) Hi Les & Andy. Could you tell us a little about yourself? How did you come to Joomla? What’s your background? Well, I can tell you one thing is for sure, I don’t have a big ego, I’m way…
One of the most interesting Joomla developments in 2007 has been a new magazine created every week by one man – Brian Teeman, a former member of the Joomla core team. Each weekly release has the following features: …
The other day I’d been doing some testing on the search features for client’s site and I came up with some interesting results. This website, based around sports, was pulling up results headed “Mambo”, “PHP.net”, “MySQL.com”. I checked on Alledia.com…
What’s the one crucial Search Engine Optimization mistake made by many of the most prominent Joomla sites? Mistake: Mis-using Global Configuration metadata. In the last few weeks I’ve seen many websites harm their SEO chances by having the same description…
Accountant – get one. You build websites. The mathematics in your code doesn’t mean you can do your books. A good accountant can save your business. Backup everything. Backup your sites, backup your databases, backup every computer everyday. Take…
We’re delighted to welcome Anthony Olsen from JoomlaBamboo.com to the interview hot seat. Although it may not look like it, Joomla is a only one of the strings to Anthony’s bow, as he told us last week…. 1) Could you…
Using your keyword list as a meta title. "Dogs, Boarding, Grooming, Pets, Pooches, Kennels, Food" is not a decent meta title because search engines see these as separate keywords. Dog Boarding – Dog Grooming – Dog Kennels is much better. Not…
As reported in earlier posts (launch post and first 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 was created…