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.
Joomla recently announced that they’re looking for white papers, proposing ways to make the next version even better than 1.5. So, together with some of Joomla’s brightest SEO minds, we’ve taken up the challenge and are writing a paper with our suggestions for improving SEO in 1.6. We’d love to hear ideas from the community to include in the proposal: What SEO improvements would you like to see in Joomla 1.6? Already on the list are ideas such as improving control over metadata. What else should we do to make Joomla the most search-engine friendly CMS available?
A big congratulations today to one of our former clients. We mentioned Bleacher Report back in 2006 when we explained how we helped them get accepted to Google News. They have a very smart business model that we’ve seen several times recently:
An entirely subjective list of five components that I’ve found to cause SEO problems on Joomla sites:
Richard and his team from Joomlatwork have been busy. Just a couple of weeks after releasing the SEF Patch, which greatly improves Joomla 1.5 metadata, they’ve launched SmartSEF, which greatly improves Joomla 1.5 URLs. Here’s our review of the beta version: