Quite a few people have been asking lately about the benefits of using Google SiteSearch. In theory, it’s great idea because people can use Google’s own search engine to search your site without leaving it. There’s even a slick module that allows you do this easily on Joomla 1.5. This should produce more accurate results, right? Wrong. Here’s six reasons why you’re better off using your own site search rather than relying on Google:
In one of a series of guest posts here on the Alledia blog, Kyle Ledbetter of Joomlapraise.com asks whether admin templates are worth the effort. Over at JoomlaPraise we make Joomla templates and extensions and have recently released AdminPraise, an administrator template for Joomla 1.5 that falls somewhere between a template and extension. However, the question we’d like to ask is … do Joomla users want/need an alternate admin template? The admin template system is obviously in place for this reason, but no one really uses it. We’ve seen slight variations on the Khepri template, but that’s about it.
This how-to came from a question posed by an SEO Club member: “How I do move from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5 yet still keep all my /content/view/24/32 URLs?” I’ve talked with him before and explained that redirecting URLs to a new version is a disaster. My experience it brings a 30 to 50% drop in traffic, so keeping these old URLs was vital. I did some digging around and found the Backlink plugin. This is a great little tool that is almost completely unknown. I found only around 10 Joomla forum posts and a single blog entry about it which…
This is a sponsored review from errr .. SponsoredReviews.com. I don’t do many of these before, but I’m working late, watching a soccer / football games to start and doing a review seems like fun. There are several requests waiting so it only seemed fair to tackle the first one in the list … Forums-Free.com. The site is, as the name implies, a free forum hosting website. It allows you to create forum boards with phpBB3. Its a free forum but is it any good?
Thank you very much indeed for agreeing to beta test our new product. This may come as surprise to some of you … others have been suggesting we do this for several months: What is the product? An SEO-optimized Joomla 1.5 template that is quite literally the fastest Joomla template every made. Rather than try to add hundreds of extra features we have tried to strip out every single uneccessary feature to make the site run as quickly as possible. Download: Click here to download. The template is 1.5 only. The package contains a normal template .zip file, another with…
If you don’t want pages to indexed by search engines, it’s standard SEO practice to add rel=”nofollow” on links to that page. Pages you might not want indexed include “Terms and Conditions”, “Privacy Policy” and other pages that contains content you don’t want to rank for. However, inside Joomla core, nofollow is not an option for menu links. At the request of some SEO Club members, and with some smart help from Brian Teeman, we’ve modified the Joomla menu module to allow no-following of links. How to Use Upload the new module Publish this in place of mod_mainmenu Whenever you…
Almost a year ago now we launched the Joomla SEO Club. It was a completely new concept at the time and for the last 11 months, I’ve been focused on making it flourish. I believe we’ve succeeded. Almost no-one was offering Joomla SEO services last year and now it’s a standard offering by many companies in the Joomla industry. Now it’s time to see if we can push the envelope once more and help meet other unaddressed customer needs. Starting today and continuing for the next few weeks, we plan to launch three significant new ventures here at Alledia. The…
Happy Birthday Joomla! September 1st is the project’s 3rd birthday. You can read the original announcement from 2005 here. Only 10 days previously the domain name had been registered alongside several other alternatives that the team were considering. How far has the project come? We’re now reaching the point where a several percent of all the sites on the web are built with Open Source Content Management Systems. At the beginning of 2004, our industry barely existed:
We’re delighted to announce three new areas in Extension Guides, our freshly-added 6th section to the SEO Club. These are easy-to-understand articles explaining how to use the most popular Joomla SEO extensions: Artio SEF SEF Advance SEF Patch for Joomla 1.0 The first extension that we covered is sh404SEF and that guide is getting longer and longer, partly that’s because it’s powerful and complex, but also because of great feedback from club members.