We’ve been working hard on producing version 1.1 of the Joomla SEO eBook and in the meantime have a new edition to announce – its now available in Hungarian.
Jozsef Tamas Herczeg from Joomlandia.eu, along with Annamaria Ban, have just launched JoomlaSEO.hu with tips and tricks for Joomla SEO in Hungarian. You can order their translation here.
Other translations are currently in progress, and if you’re interested in translating the book, please feel free to contact us.
I’ve always been pretty cynical about the 2006 launch of .mobi.
My strategy for domain investing has long been “.com and the main extensions of countries you know well”. I did buy half-a-dozen .mobi domains when they came out but have remained a pessimist since then. It seemed like a textbook example of pump-and-dump, with people hoping to sell keyword domains for a high price, before the inevitable collapse.
Well, I’m prepared to admit for the first time that .mobi may actually have a chance. When I logged into to my Bank of America account this morning I saw a big advertisement for their online banking. The domain name was bofa.mobi. No alternatives. No use of bofa.com/mobi or mobi.bofa.com
It is possible that Bank of America may remain lonely in their use of .mobi and their experiment with the extension may not last long, but equally it is undeniably true that the outlook for .mobi is much brighter than it was yesterday.
A whole bunch of stuff from the prolific Barrie North and the Joomlashack team over the last couple of weeks:
Continue reading “A Barrie Bonanza – Survey, Book and Mailing List”
Why on earth is a major company such as WebProNews.com continually allowed to get away with email spam?
They have a very sneaky way of making people think they’re unsubscribing, while in fact remaining on WebProNews’ mailing lists indefinitely.
Joomla had a problem. It used to be a Content Management System with very rigid content management. Section >> Content >> Article. That was it. No flexibility. No way to change that default heirarchy.? And then, all of a sudden, almost without anyone noticing, the problem was solved.
A quick update to where things stand in our review of SEO Extensions for Joomla:
We’ve added banners today for people looking to participate in the Joomla SEO eBook affiliate program.
Its almost common place now to say that newspapers are finished and that all they can look forward to is eeking out a living online, while their paper edition die a slow death.
This is true for most newspapers and in Britain there’s only one newspaper that has consistently been able to overcome the negative predictions.
In late 2003, the Indpendent was a struggling newspaper. It ranked almost last in popularity? among the Britain’s dozen major newspapers. It was then that it made the brave decision to move from being a broadsheet to being a tabloid. Every day the frontpage features a single image or photo trying to grab the readers attention. Some worked and some didn’t but many were little masterpieces of graphic design. 3 1/2 years later it is selling 15.5 per cent more than it did back in September 2003.
While their reporting is good and has won several awards, its their cover photos that really make the Independent stand out. Today, we take a look back at some of the very best graphic design examples from the Independent frontpage over the last 18 months:
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| Tony Blair’s Legacy | Whale Hunting |
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| Climate Change Prediction | Mental Illness Treatment |
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| New Laws | Heroin in the UK |
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| Record Art Sales | New Laws |
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| Immigration into Europe | Special Aids Issue |
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| SUVs and Climate Change | Climate Change |
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| Haj Photos | Healthcare Problems |
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Click here to see all a list of all Independent frontpages since January 2006.
Today I’ve added a complete list of the SEO Tools to Alledia.com. I believe its the only place online where all of these are gathered together in one easy-to-read list.
These are all extensions that I feel can safely be recommended for use with Joomla. Each one helps improve search engine optimization on your Joomla site in at least one key way. Some, such as JPromoter and JoomSEO are included in several categories. Each category is listed alphabetically.
Click here to see the complete list of Joomla SEO Tools.
Fascinating to see Drupal considering different ways to raise money for their project. It seems that every successful Open Source project ends up asking the same question: “How can we get the resources to keep growing and improve our standards?”
Some Drupal community members are already raising pertinent questions in the forum so it will fascinating to see how this plays out: