In this section you can read Alledia blog posts about Search Engine Optimization.
Recently we’ve talked about how Google’s Webmaster Console has been getting better, although it still needs a lot of work. Today it got a stiff kick in the backside from Yahoo who keep rolling out neat new features for on…
Great news for those of you with OpenSEF installed on your sites. Zorro over at blogged about this. Those of you like me with high-school German or less can read the remarkably good translation from Google. This is great…
A quick answer to a question I often get: “is reciprocal linking bad?”. The answer depends on what kinds of reciprocal links you’re using.
A few months back, I blogged that Google was becoming more choosy on the pages it crawled and that having a few high-quality pages on a site might be a better strategy than a lot of low-quality pages. Our suggested…
There’s been a lot of talk recently about how Wikipedia dominates almost every search result delivered by Google: Search for Joomla, and Wikipedia is there at #3. Search for Drupal and Wikipedia is there at #3. Search for Moodle…
In previous blog posts, I’ve talked about how Joomla can create lots of duplicate content pages and wreak havoc with your Search Engine rankings. Today, we’ll deal with a major culprit.
If I could sum up Joomla SEO in the shortest possible way, it would be "control your URLs". Over the course of analyzing many Joomla sites, I’ve seen all sorts of wierd URLs. Sometimes it will be a third part…
One of the questions I get asked most frequently is, “should I use an automatic metatag generator?”. Should we leave our metatags for machines to create? My answer depends on your website…
The technical side of Joomla SEO can be summed up in one sentence: keep your URLs under control. Joomla really is a powerful tool for creating content-rich websites but its also easy to end up with a whole lot of…
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.…