Below is a list of the best Joomla template providers. Some sell individual templates and some offer templates to people who subscribe for several months.
Barrie North from Joomlashack.com sent me a copy of his “Joomla Admin Manual” a long time ago and I promised to review it. Yep … I’ve been slack. It was only when a client told me earlier this week that he’d been reading it and found it useful, that I realized I needed to get my butt in gear and read it myself.
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Those of you who read this blog regularly know how highly I think of sh404SEF.
Those of you who don’t … its a great SEO tool, one of the most actively developed Joomla components available, costs $0, and has great support from its developer.
I’m delighted then to have the chance to talk with Yannick Gaultier whos runs the sh404SEF project.
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A lot of people have been talking lately about how great domains are for marketing and SEO.
A quick trip to the movies last week convinced me Hollywood isn’t listening. With millions of dollars made in a single weekend, people in movie marketing still think its a great idea to put their advertising budgets behind a $7 domain name.
Doing anything interesting this weekend?
Steven Pignataro from corePHP is.
During the week he develops Joomla extensions and on the weekend he does something else entirely.
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After the big chart earlier this week comparing the Search Engine Friendly URL Components for Joomla, I wanted to take a similar approach and compare the SEO features of Joomla 1.0 and 1.5.
On the chart is a rundown of all the key on-page SEO factors. We can’t help you when it comes to building links or writing articles people want to read, but we can advise on the technical stuff.
Hopefully this chart will help people who:
Joomla 1.5 is definitely going to bring some SEO benefits in the core, including better URLs and no-follow on some key links such as PDFs.
However, the mantra of the Joomla core for 1.5 is simplicity. Those of you who have been testing the Release Candidates have seen that fewer options are available and in a much clearer, easier-to-understand layout.
This means that for more complex SEO efforts we’ll still be relying on extra components. The first one out of the block is likely to be from Richard of Joomlatwork.com, who developed the SEF Patch and who used to be on the OpenSEF team.
In the fine tradition of OpenSEF, Richard has revealed that the component won’t simply produce Search Engine Friendly URLs, but will be a multi-purpose SEO machine:
We’ve long talked about how important it is to use a Search Engine Friendly URL component with Joomla. The best ones don’t just create human-readable addresses but also help your site in many other areas of SEO.
Trouble is, the wealth of different components means that its easy to get confused. Which one should I use? Should I pay? Should I use a free component?
Hopefully, these two charts will provide a complete comparison guide for the main five SEF URL components.
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Important news: the Joomla SEO Club has closed.
Why? The short version is that we started a spin-off at the OSTraining.com and that site has grown much larger than Alledia.com. The long version is available in this blog post.
What does this mean if I’m a member? We’re aim to make the move more than worth your while. All Joomla SEO Club will get access to OSTraining.com. At OSTraining.com you will find the same people and the same information but much more of both. To claim your access, simply login to this site and follow the instructions.
