Joomlatwork.com have updated their metadata patch for Joomla 1.5 Release Candidate 4. The patch is free to download by clicking here.
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3 Ways to Pimp Your Fireboard
With free and commercial integrations of phpBB3 planned for Joomla 1.5, we’re soon going to have several excellent forum extensions available for Joomla.
However, for Joomla 1.0 Fireboard is still the best and easiest option. Here are three great ways to spice up your Fireboard installation:
Be Careful of Joomla Automatic Translation Tools
People love short cuts. People particularly love short cuts that they think will reach 1000s of new customers. So, its easy to understand why people might love automatic translation tools.
- "I’ve just translated my site into 12 languages by installing a module! Cool!
- "Hey, my website’s in Chinese now … thats a billion new customers!"
However, this is a clear case where easy is not best.
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Knol.com Another Joomla Site in the News
There’s been a lot of hype this week about Google’s new Knol project that people have been comparing to Wikipedia, and there’s a Joomla connection…
Who are the owners of Knol.com?
Its a Dutch vacuum cleaner company who have been in business since 1969. They have a Joomla website using Virtuemart and a Rockettheme template. Apparently it crashed in the aftermath of the announcement, but its back online now and the owner Hilco Knol says he’s not selling:
"Till now have google don’t take contact with us we are positif suprised for using the name KNOL because it is my own name.
We want to launch our own products what you can see on our knol.com Internet site.
For the rest we see whats happening."
Update to a Joomla SEO Site Review from June
Back in the summer of this year where we had a short series offering free site reviews to companies who didn’t mind having the advice made public to help others learn. We had an email this week from John Parker who asked us to examine his site va-home-loansonline.com which provides home loans to Texas military veterans. You can see what the site looked like before the review at Archive.org.
He’s really done a great job of taking our suggestions from the analysis and SEO Book, and then implementing them successfully. Here’s his update, 6 months after the initial review:
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Lots of New Changes at Alledia
Over the last week we’ve been working really hard on changes? here at Alledia, aiming to make the site better for SEO Club members and people who are just visiting.
Changes for SEO Club Subscribers
- New chapters of the SEO Book dealing with Joomfish, multilingual sites, international sites plus case Studies with real-life examples of improvements we’ve made to clients’ websites and the impact they’ve had.
- New checklists making it easy to ensure you’ve optimized your site for launch, for local search and when you’re upgrading.
- A really active and supportive forum helping you to get all your Joomla SEO questions answered.
- Redesigned the navigation for logged-in users to make browsing the site much easier. You won’t see any more adverts at all.
Three SEO Things People Worry About Too Much
Its a Friday close to Christmas now and I hope most of you are winding down a little as the weekend and holidays come closer. I thought today might be a great day to talk about three things that you really don’t need to worry about as much as you thought:
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How Much Money Do Joomla Template Sellers Make?
Last year we made a post we made last year talking about how large some Joomla companies were in terms of staff. Is it possible to get any more precise details on how well some sites are doing? Yes, some sites do make data publicly available …
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Latest Version of Joomap Has Hidden Advertising
A word of caution about the latest versions of Joomap. They contain hidden advertising with a link back to the developer’s site. Fortunately, there is an easy way to turn if off.
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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.
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.
Video Explaining Google Analytics Funnels in Joomla
Yesterday we explained how to use Google Analytics goals to track whether users are completing relatively simple tasks on your site.
In Part 2 of our series of blogs about Google Analytics and Joomla, we’ll show how to track more complex tasks using funnels.
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