Below is a list of the best Joomla extension providers. Some sell individual extensions and some offer them to people who subscribe for several months.
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Steve’s Blog
How to Solve Common SEO Problems with JReviews, Fireboard and MosTree
I’ve talked before about how having less pages indexed is often better and after doing SEO audits on several sites last week I was reminded of how important this was. Sites with only 200 or 300 genuine pages of content had over 1000 pages indexed in Google.
Lots of Joomla components produce 100s and sometimes 1000s of unnecessary extra URLs that are then indexed by Google. A simple example is Mostree which is a very robust component but because it was built in pre-Ajax days, it creates separate 4 extra pages for each listing: recommend, rate, review and report listing.
In this post we’re using JReviews, Fireboard and MosTree as examples. You can cut-and-paste the rules from this post into your robots.txt file. However, please read the "important notes" section first.
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Video Explaining How To Write Joomla Page Titles
Part two of my video blog posts about creating HTML page titles in Joomla. This is partly inspired by Barrie from Joomlashack who pointed me to a great post by Copyblogger.
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My First Attempt at a Video Blog
This is my first attempt to create a video tutorial in Joomla.
Its an answer to a question we get a lot … "Whats the difference between a page title and an HTML title?"
It also seems a good place to start because modifying page titles on clients’ sites has produced better results than anything else we do. Adding SEF URLs, generating more links and improving site structure are all less effective than page title improvements.
Above all, I’m interested to see what you think. Are video blogs worth the effort?
5 Great Google Analytics Tips
As a follow-up from my last post which pointed about Brian Clark’s quote about reading more books, I’d love to highlight a great eBook I read over the weekend.
At the last JoomlaSouthEast meeting, Brent from 3by400 showed me a great Google Analytics book called simply “Google Analytics Short Cut“. Wow, does it pack a lot of useful information into a $10 PDF. 
The book certainly isn’t an introduction to GA. Its pretty technical at times and won’t help beginners, but for people already familiar with GA its full of great information. I’ve reproduced some of the best tips here.
Joomla Tutorials
Read MoreJoomla TutorialsGreat quote from Brian Clark of Copyblogger
Great quote from Brian Clark of Copyblogger fame about how to become an expert:
"I was chatting with a friend about this topic recently, and we both came up with same initial answer about becoming an expert—read books … most people don’t read and many of those who do swamp themselves with RSS news feeds instead of the foundational knowledge contained in books."
RSS Feeds are like the news … interesting for keeping up with current events but completely lacking when it comes to building knowledge of value. I can honestly say I learnt more about Google Analytics from reading one $10 book over the weekend than from months of analytics blogs. More about that tomorrow … 😉
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Joomla Web Design
- If you have design that you need converted into Joomla with minimal changes, our price is $750. The timeframe for completion is around two weeks.
- If you need a template designed from scratch our prices start at $1500 and rise from there depending on the complexity of the design and the number of mockups. The timeframe for completion is around one month.
To find out more about template projects, please click here to see our FAQ section on design.
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Joomla Templates
Below is a list of the best Joomla template providers. Some sell individual templates and some offer templates to people who subscribe for several months.
How to read the chart:
- 3 / 6 / 12 Months: Regular user subscription normally requiring you to keep a link back to the designer’s website
- 12 Months Developer: Subscription for developers and website builders who want to use the templates on clients’ sites.
Review of the Joomla Admin Manual by Barrie North
Barrie North from Joomlashack.com sent me a copy of his “Joomla Admin Manual” a long time ago and I promised to review it. Yep … I’ve been slack. It was only when a client told me earlier this week that he’d been reading it and found it useful, that I realized I needed to get my butt in gear and read it myself.
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