We’re releasing a tool to the public today that has been available to club members for a while.
Our indexing tool helps you work out how many high-quality pages you have on your Joomla site and how many are indexed. Are you like this poor guy on the Joomla forums with 80,000 extra pages or do Google and Yahoo only have your valuable pages?
Barrie North has been a prolific writer about Joomla over the last few years. This is a review of his latest book called “Joomla! a Users Guide” about how to run a Joomla 1.5 website.
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Joomla recently announced that they’re looking for white papers, proposing ways to make the next version even better than 1.5.
So, together with some of Joomla’s brightest SEO minds, we’ve taken up the challenge and are writing a paper with our suggestions for improving SEO in 1.6.
We’d love to hear ideas from the community to include in the proposal:
What SEO improvements would you like to see in Joomla 1.6?
Already on the list are ideas such as improving control over metadata. What else should we do to make Joomla the most search-engine friendly CMS available?
A big congratulations today to one of our former clients. We mentioned Bleacher Report back in 2006 when we explained how we helped them get accepted to Google News.
They have a very smart business model that we’ve seen several times recently:
An entirely subjective list of five components that I’ve found to cause SEO problems on Joomla sites:
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Richard and his team from Joomlatwork have been busy. Just a couple of weeks after releasing the SEF Patch, which greatly improves Joomla 1.5 metadata, they’ve launched SmartSEF, which greatly improves Joomla 1.5 URLs.
Here’s our review of the beta version:
Our Extension of the Month for 2008 is a very worthy winner, because it overcomes several important limitations in Joomla’s core. Joomla’s default search component has several issues:
The new "Advanced Search" from anything-digital.net solves all those issues.
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If you’ve been reading this blog for more than a few days, you’ll know I strongly recommend two components to improve SEO on Joomla 1.0:
The good news is that one of those has just been updated for Joomla 1.5. This is our review of the new SEF Patch.
Joomla 1.5 is now two weeks old and more compatible components are being released every day. For those of you interested in SEO, I thought I might write a short post about the status of SEO components for 1.5:
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Here at Alledia, we specialize in design and SEO work for Joomla and are available for custom work in those areas.
However, we often get requests from people who are searching for experts, particularly when it comes to PHP / MySQL coding and server / security work. To make referrals easier, we’ve added a "Recommended Providers" page.
The list is currently small, but it will grow with time and these are people we’ve worked with before whose high-quality work we can vouch for.
Its fairly common for a new Joomla site to have a few bugs when Search Engine Friendly URLs are turned on. Examples I’ve come across in the last few weeks have included a "Go to the Top" link breaking, and several links breaking in old versions of GroupJive.
One culprit was to blame: sefRelToAbs.
This is a sponsored review from errr .. SponsoredReviews.com. I’ve never done one of these before, but I’m up early on a Saturday morning, in the U.S. and waiting for English football games to start on Irish TV (!) and doing a review seems like fun. There are several requests waiting so it only seemed fair to tackle the first one in the list … stylishwebdesign.us.
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