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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.
This is a guest post from Judy Gunter of DeafJoomla.com, reviewing Accessible Joomla (or a8eJoomla) from a8eJoomla.com. Accessible Joomla is a hack to Joomla’s core files that allows webmasters to conform to web accessibility guidelines and web standards by removing HTML tables in favor of using CSS.
We welcome other guest posts. Simply login and click “Make a Guest Blog Post” in the right-hand menu.
A few people have emailed to ask what module we’re using to welcome people who visit from search engines. If you reach Alledia.com from Google and Yahoo, you’ll see the following text:
The module is SE Keywords, developed by Pietro Gallo, whose also developing search clouds and search modules for Sobi 2.
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been involved in setting up a couple of Joomla sites that have relied heavily on video. Man, it was frustrating.
After a day or so, I ended up with a website full of every conceivable mambot, module and component, but none of them would work correctly:
Finally, after a night to sleep on it, we came up with a solution. Read on to find out how to run videos perfectly in Joomla … oh, and theres a special free gift at the bottom of the post.
I’m very careful about recommending products on this blog, plugging only about 10% of the stuff that gets sent. Thats mainly because so many developers harvest email addresses and send out a mass mailing. Just a two-line, personalised message and a sample of the product is enough to get my interest.
It also helps if something comes from a friend who doesn’t know you’re going to give them a mention.
Today, I got a very pleasant surprise from Ian from NewWorldDesigns.co.uk, who’ve worked with for a long time. His first commercial product came out today and its a great start – its a RSS Feeder for Virtuemart. It allows you to submit a feed of all your products to Google’s shopping search engine. It works out of the box and without any hacks. Its simple to set up and the demonstration video gives you a good idea of what it can do.
So, no affiliate links, no paid posting, just a recommendation. Its a good product.
One of Joomla’s inbuilt SEO flaws is how it handles page titles.
The titles of your Joomla page probably look like this:
<td class="contentheading" width="100%">My Page Title</td>
That makes about as much sense as wrapping up the paragraphs on your page with code like this:
<td class="paragraph" width="100%">This is my paragraph and it rambles on and on….</td>.
Whats wrong with <p> and </p>? Fortunately Joomla does use <p> and </p> but it doesn’t utilise <h1> and </h1>. Fortunately, there’s a new module that offers a potential solution….
As part of a my goal to review every SEO tool for Joomla, I’m moving on to mambots this week.
We’ve previously reviewed Search Engine Friendly URL components such as Open-SEF, SEF Advance and Artio SEF and patches such at the Joomlatwork SEF Patch.
Mambots (or plug-ins) are generally much smaller extensions, often just two files, but they can have a dramatic effect on site’s operation as we’ll see with JoomSEO.
Its not often that a brand new, really useful and completely free Joomla component comes on the scene.
Anthony Ferrara has managed that with his Page Cache component.