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Mambo and Joomla Logos

Comparing Joomla 1.5 and Mambo 3.0

Mambo and Joomla LogosWant to get your head around how far Joomla has come since the early days of Mambo? Download and install one of these 5 and 6 year old versions.

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Important Changes to Our Affiliate Program

Hi All . We’ve some important news for people using the Alledia affiliate program.

There are Three Important Changes Involved in this Move

  1. All affiliate URLs have had to change. This is because iDevAffiliate’s Search Engine Friendly URLs don’t work with the new integration. We’ve redirected all active affiliates to their new URLs. That means that if you’ve sent us more than two or three visitors over the last few months, we’ve created a 301 redirect from your old affiliate URL to the new one. However, I’d still recommend that you login and use the updated version.

  2. The affiliate program has a new address: http://www.alledia.com/affiliates/. Your stats won’t appear inside Community Builder any longer.

  3. You no longer have to join the SEO Club to become an affiliate. Simply visit: http://www.alledia.com/affiliates/ and sign up.

Thanks for your patience and I apologize for the trouble caused by this changeover. Unfortunately it was essential to ensure we weren’t stuck with a product that won’t be developed any longer.

Any questions at all, please feel free to post in the comments or contact us.

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Joomla and Google Alerts

Open Question: Joomla and Google Alerts

Joomla and Google AlertsOver the next few weeks I thought it would be fun to throw out a few open question. We’d love to here your answers to the first questions:

What kind of success do your Joomla sites have with Google Alerts?

  • Are your blog posts always picked up for the keywords you’re targeting?
  • Do you end up in the blog or news category?
  • Do you have any particular tricks to make sure your posts are emailed to as many people as possible?

My personal experience is that I can set up a WordPress site tomorrow and have 100% of the posts picked up. However Joomla sites have been much more hit-and-miss.

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Drupal Founder Earns $7 Million in VC Funding

AcquiaFinally it looks like we may have an answer to the question I posed last year: can Joomla or Drupal produce a RedHat?

Drupal’s founder Dries Buytaert has launched a new company called Acquia that has picked up $7 million in venture capital funding. (Apparently the new name is meant to refer to “aqua” and Drupal’s original meaning of “drop of water”).

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