Yellow Pages – Red Face

Today saw the end of something that has bugged me for a whole year – our Yellow Pages contract. Wow, that’s an expensive, useless heap of nothing for a webdesign company. After two years of growing the company, mainly by…
Today saw the end of something that has bugged me for a whole year – our Yellow Pages contract. Wow, that’s an expensive, useless heap of nothing for a webdesign company. After two years of growing the company, mainly by…
People signing up at Alledia in weeks to come are going to have one extra field to fill in. Recently, we’ve seen a sharp jump in the number of fake registrations and so over the weekend we added a captcha…
Regular readers of my blog must think I’m going at bit cuckoo of late, repeatedly quoting from a 20-year old book written by a guy born in 1911. No apologies – David Ogilvy’s book “Ogilvy on Advertising” is a classic.…
Hi All Apologies for skipping the regular post today – we’ve been busy moving all our company and clients sites to a dedicated server. Some of our clients run sports sites and are about to get hit hard by traffic…
As reported in earlier posts (launch post, first update and second update) we’re running a test comparing the search engine optimization capabilites of Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. We created three sites, Jabalpur.net.in (WordPress) Amritsar.net.in (Drupal) and Vadodara.net.in (Joomla). Each website…
Five things to consider before adding social networking features to your site, or even more seriously, launching a 100% social networking site: It is absurdly difficult to monetize even a very successful social networking site. Facebook has a click-through rate…
Its great to see people in the Joomla community taking the time and effort to build free sites that are genuninely useful resources. Today, I’ll highlight two of the very best: Joomla24.com Back in the Mambo days, when I was…
MoonRay, one of the developers over at Joomlaspan.com has been developing a lot of useful tools for Joomla. We use his Google Translation module on the right side of our site, and it really gets a lot of heavy usage.…
Yesterday we compared the metadata produced by three different forum setups for Joomla sites: Simple Machines integrated with Joomla Simple Machines unintegrated with Joomla VBulletin Today, we’re going to take that a step further and see how well…
Now that Joomla has been around for 18 months, some of its forums are starting to get pretty big. They are becoming potentially huge SEO assets for the accompanying websites. Although not comprehensive, this is a list of some of…