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February 13, 2008

Joomla Indexing Tool

{mosloadposition user8} What Does This Tool Do? It shows if your Joomla site has indexing problems in any of three major search engines: Google, Yahoo and MSN. Instructions Part 1: Add these two numbers: Administrator > Content > All Content Items > At the bottom of the page Administrator > Content > Static Content Manager > At the bottom of the page Part 2: Add these two numbers: Administrator > Content > Section Manager > At the bottom of the page Administrator > Content > Category Manager > At the bottom of the page Part 3: Add the pages on…

February 11, 2008

Joomla Extension of the Month – February 08

Our Extension of the Month for 2008 is a very worthy winner, because it overcomes several important limitations in Joomla’s core. Joomla’s default search component has several issues: You can’t enter a query of more than 20 characters You can’t search only in one part of the site (for example content, forum, comments) Its hard to customize so that results appear in the order you desire The new "Advanced Search" from anything-digital.net solves all those issues.

February 8, 2008

Review of the SEF Patch for Joomla 1.5

If you’ve been reading this blog for more than a few days, you’ll know I strongly recommend two components to improve SEO on Joomla 1.0: sh404SEF from extensions.siliana.net SEF Patch from joomlatwork.com ( winner of an "Extension of the Month" award last year ) The good news is that one of those has just been updated for Joomla 1.5. This is our review of the new SEF Patch.

February 4, 2008

Joomla 1.5 and SEO Components

Joomla 1.5 is now two weeks old and more compatible components are being released every day. For those of you interested in SEO, I thought I might write a short post about the status of SEO components for 1.5:

January 30, 2008

New Recommended Providers Page

Here at Alledia, we specialize in design and SEO work for Joomla and are available for custom work in those areas. However, we often get requests from people who are searching for experts, particularly when it comes to PHP / MySQL coding and server / security work. To make referrals easier, we’ve added a "Recommended Providers" page. The list is currently small, but it will grow with time and these are people we’ve worked with before whose high-quality work we can vouch for.

January 29, 2008

Recommended Providers

Here at Alledia, we specialize in design and SEO work for Joomla and are available for custom work in those areas. However, we often get requests from people who are searching for experts with other skills. This is a list of people we’ve worked with before and whose abilities we can strongly recommend: {moschart id=22} {moschart id=23} {moschart id=25} For onsite training, please also visit JoomlaYellowPages.com to find a company is close enough to your location to visit you.

January 28, 2008

What is sefRelToAbs and How Do I Use it?

Its fairly common for a new Joomla site to have a few bugs when Search Engine Friendly URLs are turned on. Examples I’ve come across in the last few weeks have included a "Go to the Top" link breaking, and several links breaking in old versions of GroupJive. One culprit was to blame: sefRelToAbs.

January 26, 2008

Comparing Joomla 1.5 and Mambo 3.0

Want to get your head around how far Joomla has come since the early days of Mambo? Download and install one of these 5 and 6 year old versions. Mambo 3.0.4, released in May 2001: Mambo 3.0.5, released in June 2001: Mambo 4.0.6, released in December 2002:

January 24, 2008

Open Question: How Will You Survive a Recession?

Open Question Thursday again: Most people reading this blog make some money from the internet. For some, perhaps even a majority, its your largest source of income.