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Joomla SEO

The Complete Introduction to Joomla SEO At the suggestion of a few people in the Joomla community I decided to site down and write a beginner’s guide to optimizing a Joomla site for SEO. The bad news: the default version of Joomla isn’t well optimized. The good news: its such a popular CMS that people have come up with fixes for just about every SEO obstacle in Joomla. I’m going to talk about those solutions. Quick Preamble In this introduction, I … … will describe the "how" rather than the "what" or "why" of on-site SEO for Joomla. If you…

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The Top Rated Joomla Book on Amazon

I don’t often talk about work with private clients, but I had one really interesting experience that taught me a lot. Early in 2007, I was asked by Apress.com to be the Technical Reviewer for Dan Rahmel’s new Joomla book: “Beginning Joomla! From Novice to Professional.” As a blogger it was fascinating to get a small glimpse into the world of book publishing and the processes they have for making sure a book hits the shelves ready-to-roll, with all spelling, grammatical and tutorial bugs squashed. I’m really pleased to notice that its now the best-reviewed Joomla book on Amazon.com.

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Read More on Your Joomla Frontpage

This is a guest post from Tom Maiaroto of ExpandTheRoom. In this post he explains how to set the "Read More" on your Joomla frontpage to appear after a certain number of characters. This is useful to keep a standard appearance for your articles when you have a large number of people submitting content. This post grew out of comment that Tom made on our original discussion about the "read more" on Joomla’s frontpage. We welcome other guest posts. Simply login and click "Make a Guest Blog Post" in the right-hand menu.

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Video Explaining Google Analytics Goals in Joomla

Today is the first in a series of video blog posts about setting up Google Analytics on your Joomla site. We’re getting started by explaining how to setup goals – how do you track whether your site is doing what it was designed for (selling products, generating leads, making you money). In the video I talk about sending everyone to a single page once they’ve completed a goal on your site. Click here for those instructions. For experienced Analytics users we have five advanced tips.

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Controversial Joomla Blog Posts

In the last few days a particularly controversial blog post has made some people in the Joomla world angry. On the OpenJason.com blog, there was an article reviewing various Joomla template clubs. It made comments about some template designers that included phrases such as: “Piss poor quality” “If I wanted to get kicked in the nuts, I’d go to these guys” “I can’t even muster up a .5 rating for these idiots. The templates suck”

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25% Discount if You Join the SEO Club During the Next 48 Hours

If you’re thinking about joining the Joomla SEO Club, but haven’t yet, this is a great week to subscribe and start learning. The are lots of interesting discussions going on in our forum and we’ve recently added lots of new material including new SEO Book chapters, new video tutorials, and checklists to make sure you launch, update or improve your site in the post possible way for SEO.

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Joomla Extension of the Month – December 07

Today is the return of our "Joomla Extension of the Month" award! It ran for nearly a year but took a break during the summer when I wasn’t really getting excited about any of the new components being released. Fortunately that has changed in recent weeks and there have been several great new Joomla extensions. First up for the revived award is Mass Content from Webtotalservice.no.

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