In this section you can read Alledia blog posts about Search Engine Optimization.
One of the questions I get asked most frequently during SEO work is, "Which component should I use for search engine-friendly URLs with Joomla?" There are currently three available: Open-SEF from J-Prosolution.com (Free) Artio SEF from Artio.cz (Free) SEF Advance…
Today’s post could really be called Duplicate Content in Joomla Part 2. Yesterday, I blogged about duplicate content in Joomla and the damage it can do to your SEO efforts. Well, soon afterwards I realised that a follow-up was needed…
A while ago, we talked about how to make MosTree more Search Engine Friendly. Well, we have a Part 2 to that article, this time dealing with the way the word “Root” appears in the directory homepage and the titles…
Be careful with Virtuemart and your efforts at Search Engine Optimization. We had an SEO client during January who suffered from an odd problem that has overtaken 2,800 pages according to a Google search. It seems that VirtueMart sometimes appends…
A while ago we blogged about the slow death being suffered by the Open Directory. On October 20th their servers crashed and since then no-one was able to submit sites and editors could not update categories. Finally, two months…
A few weeks ago we mentioned that there was some good news for those people who have duplicate content on their site. A Google staff member mentioned that there was no longer going to be an active penalty for websites…
I had the pleasure of talking to Phil Braddock, a Melbourne based Joomla developer, over the Christmas holidays. He runs Salsa Internet and is someone who comes at Joomla from the perspective of someone focused on trying to improve…
Apart from Alledia.com, the most popular site we run is JoomlaYellowPages.com, based on the excellent MosTree directory component from Mosets.com. The site has only been up and running for 4 months, but it has already got some good search…
A great blog post over at ModernLifeisRubbish.co.uk yesterday about how good hosting can really help your Search Engine rankings and about how bad hosting and site optimization can cause you a lot of trouble. Stuart Brown got onto this issue…
I was online looking for a printer the other today and took to browsing through Hewlett Packard’s search results. After flicking through for a while, something started to feel odd? Wasn’t there a big scandal in the news about HP…