Three weeks ago some of the brighest SEO minds in the Joomlasphere took up the challenge to form a thinktank and bring together their thoughts for improving SEO in Joomla! 1.6. Today this team is happy to announce the opening of a public wiki for the Joomla! community to get involved in this process. Over the next 2 weeks we would like to gather as many ideas, suggestions and concepts as possible.
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 talked about using Siteground’s strategy of dominating the search results with extra sites. This is an alternate strategy that involves building positive links to bolster your online reputation. It helps you fill the search results with positive mentions of your business and provides protection against negative news. I’d love to have a dollar for everyone who’s said “we decided to…
Good news over at Joomla.org – extensions with hidden advertising will be clearly labelled. We’ve covered this topic two times on this blog and thoroughly support the decision. I think this will do quite a bit to protect the reputation of Joomla and 3rd party developers. Its embarrassing to explain to high-value clients why their Joomla sites contain hidden links to hotels, apartments or random web developers. This is the notice that will appear on guilty extensions:
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 bad news about your company. A few people have asked for examples of those techniques and I found a great one today. Siteground is a hosting company that targets the Open Source niche. They offer middle-of-the-road prices and like many other companies they manage servers at the ThePlanet.com. They do offer fast answers to support tickets, but generally they offer…
Here’s a freebie for those of you working over the weekend. JoomlaPraise is a new template club offering free memberships to the first 50 people to sign up. Act quick – they’ll probably all be gone in the next few hours.
This is a great tip from Lowkey over on the Joomla forums. It enables you to track searches made on your site from inside Google Analytics. You can go beyond simply what words people used to search and collect data and where they came from and which pages they viewed.
If any of you have a Joomla website or domain to sell, we’ve just opened up a new, free classified ads section to help you. Our Joomla Marketplace is somewhere you can sell Joomla websites, domains and pretty much anything else thats Joomla-related.
We’re releasing a tool to the public today that has been available to club members for a while. Our indexing tool helps you work out how many high-quality pages you have on your Joomla site and how many are indexed. Are you like this poor guy on the Joomla forums with 80,000 extra pages or do Google and Yahoo only have your valuable pages?
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Barrie North has been a prolific writer about Joomla over the last few years. This is a review of his latest book called “Joomla! a Users Guide” about how to run a Joomla 1.5 website.