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Leadership is Now The Strongest Marketing Strategy

One of the hardest things to explain to people when we’re discussing SEO nowadays is that its not about the h1 tags, nofollow links and managing Page Rank. Aaron Wood summed this up well by saying that for the modern marketer, PR should stand for “personal relationships” rather than “Page Rank”. Even more accurate is this quote from Seth Godin “Yelling with gusto used to be the best way to advertise your wares. There was plenty of media and if you had plenty of money, you were set. Today, of course, yelling doesn’t work so well. What works is leading.…

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Sponsored Review of WebHostingReport.com

This is an interesting review request that popped up in our inbox. WebHostingReport.com is a good domain name but a somewhat thin affiliate site. It aims to rank for hosting, blog hosting, cheap web hosting and other keyword terms. The site doesn’t have much going for it in terms of interest, but its a nice example of targeted lead generation. To me it looks like more a more sophisticated version of the Siteground promotional sites we discussed last year. A short list of five hosts, with one favored host almost always on top Lots of interlinking for keywords A small…

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Joomla Classes in Texas and the Mid-West

The Joomla Training bandwagon is starting to roll this year. We’ve thoroughly covered the East and West coasts of the United States, and not it’s time to do more work on the center of the country. If you’re in Texas and the Mid-West we’ve got Joomla classes coming up for you in the next three weeks. Texas Joomla Classes Dallas – May 18 Austin – May 19 San Antonio – May 21 Houston – May 22

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Feedback Request on New Joomla Jobs Component

This is a guest post by Ulas Alkan from InstantPHP.com. He’s looking for feedback on his new jobs component for Joomla 1.5. I mentioned a couple of years ago that Joomla really needed a quality jobs board. Maybe this is it … Jobs is a recruitment component for Joomla. It offers web sites owners to run their job software website. Jobs is targeting 2 types of web site (Company web sites and Community based web sites). The full product description is on this url and you can see the full demo by visiting this site.

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Reward Offered for Joomla Server on a Mac

We’re putting a price on the head of a really annoying problem … we’d like to rope in a Joomla desktop server for the Mac that runs as easily as servers do on the P.C.. The Goal Download a package to your Mac desktop Open the files Click and Joomla is running The Problem We’ve been directing Mac users to use MAMP but they’ve found it confusing and additionally need to install Joomla. There are servers available for the P.C. but none for the Mac. Only JSASOnline.com have come close but their last post about the project was in early…

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8 Joomla SEO Template Principles

This is a guest blog post from Cyrus Patten. Joomla can create powerful, robust and stunning templates. In addition to the flexibility of the templates, many of them dynamically change to fit your content and extensions. This is a great feature of Joomla! However these features can lead to some very bloated, complex and non-search engine optimized templates. The following is a list of template principles to look for when purchasing or designing your next template.

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Interview with Damian Hickey Founder of Jentla

This is an inteview with Damian Hickey, the founder of Jentla, which is a large-scale multi-site product for Joomla. The Jentla team are launching the product in the U.S. at this week’s CMS Expo in Chicago. 1. Could you explain Jentla in layman’s terms? Jentla makes it really easy to develop and manage 1,000?s of Joomla websites. Many businesses have multiple websites but they can?t gain any advantages with Joomla until they are linked together under a centralized site manager. That?s what Jentla does. Adding, approving and publishing web content works just like offline where it flows through several responsible…

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