Steve’s Blog

October 24, 2007

New SEO Component Coming for Joomla 1.5

Joomla 1.5 is definitely going to bring some SEO benefits in the core, including better URLs and no-follow on some key links such as PDFs. However, the mantra of the Joomla core for 1.5 is simplicity. Those of you who have been testing the Release Candidates have seen that fewer options are available and in a much clearer, easier-to-understand layout. This means that for more complex SEO efforts we’ll still be relying on extra components. The first one out of the block is likely to be from Richard of Joomlatwork.com, who developed the SEF Patch and who used to be…

October 23, 2007

Complete SEF URL Extension Comparison

We’ve long talked about how important it is to use a Search Engine Friendly URL component with Joomla. The best ones don’t just create human-readable addresses but also help your site in many other areas of SEO. Trouble is, the wealth of different components means that its easy to get confused. Which one should I use? Should I pay? Should I use a free component? Hopefully, these two charts will provide a complete comparison guide for the main five SEF URL components. Chart 1: What features does the component have? Chart 2: What other extensions does the component work with?…

October 18, 2007

Thanks for Joining

Thank you very much indeed for joining the Joomla SEO Club. If You Have A Paid Subscription: Please feel free to get started by visiting one of these links …

October 18, 2007

Joomla SEO Club

Important news: the Joomla SEO Club has closed. Why? The short version is that we started a spin-off at the OSTraining.com and that site has grown much larger than Alledia.com. The long version is available in this blog post. What does this mean if I’m a member? We’re aim to make the move more than worth your while. All Joomla SEO Club will get access to OSTraining.com. At OSTraining.com you will find the same people and the same information but much more of both. To claim your access, simply login to this site and follow the instructions.

October 18, 2007

Our New Joomla SEO Club Launches!

SEO isn’t affordable for most people. Most Joomla users don’t have deep pockets and spending $1000 or more for a complete site overhaul often isn’t justified. Sure, you’d like your small business or hobby site to rank better but are you going to make that much money back? What if SEO was available for the same price as a template or a component? What if someone delivered Joomla SEO with same high-quality, low-price attitude that people love to find in Joomla template clubs and extension developers? We’re delighted to announce that affordable, professional SEO advice is here: the Joomla SEO…

October 17, 2007

Review of the SerrBizSEF SEF URL Extension

October 16, 2007

Joomla South East Fourth Meeting in Atlanta

Wednesday night should a lot of fun because its the fourth meeting of Joomla South East, one of a growing number of Joomla User Groups around the world. We’re meeting from 7.00 to 9.00 pm at the 5 Seasons Brewing Company in Alpharetta. Their website is 5SeasonsBrewing.com and you can get a link to the site here. We have a conference room reserved over the brewery. It has an overhead project, wireless internet, plenty of power sockets for laptops and great food and beer.

October 15, 2007

sh404SEF Becomes Better and Better, SerrBizSEF Become Free

I had the pleasure of testing out the latest version of sh404SEF over the weekend. Yannick just keeps making his component better and better. This latest version is 1.2.4x although the difference between Yannick really needs to get a new release numbering system. The improvements between 1.2.4a and 1.2.4x is greater than most developers manage between 0.1 and 10.0. It really is becoming the 800 pound gorilla of SEF tools. The new version isn’t available yet, but here’s a sneak peak at the upcoming improvements:

October 12, 2007

KickApps Integrating Community Features with Joomla

Joomla 1.5 has an alternative to Community Builder and Jomsocial. KickApps is basically a wide-ranging set of social networking tools, including videos, photos, audio, user profile, blogs and the other usual social goodies.

October 11, 2007

New Joomla Site With 1 Million Unique Visitors Per Month

Sites that reach a million people per month are few and far between, but a new Joomla site has just launched with that level of traffic. TNAWrestling.com is the main portal for one of the biggest wrestling organizations in the U.S.. During its first few days it was getting over 1000 simultaneous hits and the site is running smoothly. The site was developed by Fotis and the Joomlaworks.gr team, under the guise of their main company Komrade.gr.