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Update to a Joomla SEO Site Review from June

Back in the summer of this year where we had a short series offering free site reviews to companies who didn’t mind having the advice made public to help others learn. We had an email this week from John Parker who asked us to examine his site va-home-loansonline.com which provides home loans to Texas military veterans. You can see what the site looked like before the review at Archive.org. He’s really done a great job of taking our suggestions from the analysis and SEO Book, and then implementing them successfully. Here’s his update, 6 months after the initial review:

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Lots of New Changes at Alledia

Over the last week we’ve been working really hard on changes? here at Alledia, aiming to make the site better for SEO Club members and people who are just visiting. Changes for SEO Club Subscribers New chapters of the SEO Book dealing with Joomfish, multilingual sites, international sites plus case Studies with real-life examples of improvements we’ve made to clients’ websites and the impact they’ve had. New checklists making it easy to ensure you’ve optimized your site for launch, for local search and when you’re upgrading. A really active and supportive forum helping you to get all your Joomla SEO…

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Joomla SEO

The Complete Introduction to Joomla SEO At the suggestion of a few people in the Joomla community I decided to site down and write a beginner’s guide to optimizing a Joomla site for SEO. The bad news: the default version of Joomla isn’t well optimized. The good news: its such a popular CMS that people have come up with fixes for just about every SEO obstacle in Joomla. I’m going to talk about those solutions. Quick Preamble In this introduction, I … … will describe the "how" rather than the "what" or "why" of on-site SEO for Joomla. If you…

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The Top Rated Joomla Book on Amazon

I don’t often talk about work with private clients, but I had one really interesting experience that taught me a lot. Early in 2007, I was asked by Apress.com to be the Technical Reviewer for Dan Rahmel’s new Joomla book: “Beginning Joomla! From Novice to Professional.” As a blogger it was fascinating to get a small glimpse into the world of book publishing and the processes they have for making sure a book hits the shelves ready-to-roll, with all spelling, grammatical and tutorial bugs squashed. I’m really pleased to notice that its now the best-reviewed Joomla book on Amazon.com.

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Read More on Your Joomla Frontpage

This is a guest post from Tom Maiaroto of ExpandTheRoom. In this post he explains how to set the "Read More" on your Joomla frontpage to appear after a certain number of characters. This is useful to keep a standard appearance for your articles when you have a large number of people submitting content. This post grew out of comment that Tom made on our original discussion about the "read more" on Joomla’s frontpage. We welcome other guest posts. Simply login and click "Make a Guest Blog Post" in the right-hand menu.

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