Steve’s Blog

Love it or hate it, DMOZ.org has loomed large of webmasters heads for years now, but it seems likely thats its days are numbered.   By clicking here you can read our article from early this year about the history of the DMOZ and its importance, but technical problems are threatening to render years of credibiliy obsolete in just a month. No new submissions are being accepted and editors can’t login. In fact, they are not even being told what the problems are. A group are publicly venting on this forum thread.   For a centerpiece of the web, DMOZ…

This is one of an ongoing series of blog posts about problems with Joomla and SEO, and more importantly – how to fix them.   As we find time we're going to expand and merge these articles into a longer and more comprehensive guide to Joomla SEO. Watch this space. Joomla produces your site name first and then your page title. For example, see this search.   Many Joomla sites will look like this when the ideal situation would be to have everything reversed:  Datso Gallery User Tab Plugin Released. Joomlapolis – the home of Community Builder. That way people…

We write an article every month for a magazine distributed around Atlanta. December’s article is a brief introduction to more advanced Search Engine Optimization techniques that small businesses can use.   We focus on two of the most useful techniques, building minisites and optimizing your inside pages.   Click here to read the full article.   

Joomla is a great CMS, but its Search Engine Optimization (SEO) capabilities leave a lot to be desired. This problem is well-know however, and a lot of developers are beavering away on solutions. Here are 6 essential tools to get your site off on the right foot:   1) Joomla SEF Patch   Its key benefit is that it allows you more control over the <title> tags. Instead of simply being "Home" or "Frontpage", you can add a more descriptive and keyword-rich title.   2) JPromoter (Commercial)   Allows you to generate meta data and titles for each page individually.…