Mike at Simbunch.com has created a very useful little mambot that forces all external links to open in a new window. (free registration required) What Does It Do? The mambot can add these tags to all external links: target=”_blank” (open…
Joomla 1.5 has really taken hold in recent months, overtaking 1.0 to become the more popular system. The aim of this post is to compare the URLs in 1.0 and 1.5 so that you know what to expect in the…
I’m sure most of you have heard the trick question for webdesigners: “which browser do you use?”. (The correct answer is “all of them”, because designers need to check their work in every major browser.) SEO people will give you…
What are Internal Links? Internal links to your site are the links that reside on pages that belong to your domain. So links to subdomain and subfolders also count. Why Do This Automatically? If you have a lot of content…
Sometimes you just want a short-cut. Sometimes the idea of slogging away for months to reach your goal just doesn’t seem worth the effort. Take the woman on the right. My wife just went to Japan and found this “Dancing…
I recently came across a cool SEO tool: SEO-Browser.com displays a website the way search engines view your site. The site is displayed with all images and formatting removed, leaving just the links, headings, and text. Viewing a website…
One of the hardest things for a new site owner to do is start generating links. However, because you’ve built your site in Joomla, you have the chance to get? a good number of valuable links. Earlier this week we…
Last year I wrote a couple of posts about how important it was to fill the search engine rankings with positive mentions of your company. Its one of the cornerstones of online reputation management and can help to filter out…
An entirely subjective list of five components that I’ve found to cause SEO problems on Joomla sites:
Joomlatwork.com have updated their metadata patch for Joomla 1.5 Release Candidate 4. The patch is free to download by clicking here.