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Make Your Joomla Site Search More User Friendly

As Microsoft will tell you, one of the hardest things in the world to get right is search. 

Neither Simple Machines, Drupal or Joomla have acheived really satisfying search results. In fact I’ll often go outside of the Joomla forums and search them using Google because the results are more relevant than SMF’s own answers. Its not surprising – Google emply 1000s of people to get their results right. Open Source projects don’t have that luxury.

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Edit All Joomla Content from the Frontend

Today, we’ve released a small hack of MyContent from Joomlicious.com.

MyContent is a great component that allows people to edit their submitted content from the frontend.

We needed a small change: one of our clients needed to edit all the articles on the site from the frontend, regardless of who submitted them. This hack allows them to do that.

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JoomlaYellowPages lists over 200 Joomla companies

Joomla Yellow Pages LogoJoomlaYellowPages.com now has listings for over 200 Joomla companies. If you’re looking for a Joomla developer in Fiji or a designer who speaks Belorussian, then you’ve come to the right place.

 

We don’t just approve anyone – all the companies on the list have Joomla experience, a clear online explanation of their Joomla services and a browsable portfolio. 

 

 

To add your company to the site, simply register, browse through to where you live and then click "Add your listing here".

 

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10 Steps to Great RSS Feeds with Joomla

RSS FeedRSS Feeds are a great way to build visitor loyalty and to keep them coming back to your site.

They’re also good for link building as people keen to keep their sites regularly updated are always looking for good RSS content. The benefit for you is that you get a link back to your site and hopefully some added traffic.

So what’s the best way to set up RSS Feeds within Joomla? I’m glad you asked….

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Joomla South East Meets Tonight in Atlanta

Joomla South EastTonight’s going to be a lot of fun because its the first meeting of Joomla South East, one of a growing number of Joomla User Groups around the world.

We’re meeting tonight (Wednesday, May 16th) from 7.30  to 9.30 pm at the Eclipse di Luna Restaurant  (http://www.eclipsediluna.com). For those of you that know Atlanta, we’ve tried to make the meeting as accessible as possible be hold the meeting close to the center of the city, where i85, i75 and i20 all meet.


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Review of JoomSEO Mambot

As part of a my goal to review every SEO tool for Joomla, I’m moving on to mambots this week.

 

We’ve previously reviewed Search Engine Friendly URL components such as Open-SEF, SEF Advance and Artio SEF and patches such at the Joomlatwork SEF Patch.

 

Mambots (or plug-ins) are generally much smaller extensions, often just two files, but they can have a dramatic effect on site’s operation as we’ll see with JoomSEO.

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Joomla, WordPress, Drupal or simple old HTML

HummerbieA great post by Hummerbie over on his blog.

He followed up from our SEO test results and some musings about regular site updates over at SEO Refugee.

Hummerbie’s post raises the question of whether Google looks at your website software. Does Google treat your site differently if it is built with Joomla, WordPress, Drupal or simple old HTML?

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