Steve’s Blog

Local Domain Forums Grow Rapidly

As domains become mainstream worldwide, its been interesting to see how popular the extensions have become for each country. In most places .com is actually less popular than the local alternative. One result of that is that domain forums have sprung up, specialising in names from all sorts of countries. Here’s a smattering of some of the best. If we’ve missed any, drop a line in the comments and we’ll add them to the list: AcornDomains.co.uk   (U.K.) CanadianDots.ca   (Canada) INForum.in   (India) Forumdominios.com  (Spanish names) USForum.us   (U.S.A.)

Read MoreLocal Domain Forums Grow Rapidly

What is Automapping?

One of the most important things to remember when managing SEO on your Joomla site is that duplicate content can easily become a problem. Its easy to have many different URLs pointing to the same page. Fortunately, some Search Engine Friendly URL extensions use a feature called “automapping“. Today, I’ll explain what that is.

Read MoreWhat is Automapping?

Link for People Worried About Joomla Duplicate Content

Worried about all those PDF and RSS feeds from your Joomla site that keep popping up in search engine results? Theres a great post over at SEOMoz.org this week, talking about some of the topics we’ve covered on Alledia before: Whats the best way to deal with PDF and Printer-Friendly pages? Is Duplicate Content hurting my rankings? Their advice? Use a no-index tag on the links. If you’re wondering how do that, check out our PDF hack here. For what its worth, solving this problem led to 25% more visits from search engines to their old blog posts.

Read MoreLink for People Worried About Joomla Duplicate Content

SEO Review of VA-Home-LoansOnline.com

Today is part 2 of our blog series called "Joomla SEO Site Review". Every week we’re going to look at a new Joomla site and address several questions the site owner wants answering about their site’s SEO. We’ll discuss them on the blog and then open things up for other people to give their feedback as well. Hopefully it will raise some topics that will be useful to lots of people, not just the site owner. If you’re interested in having your site featured, feel free to contact us with your site’s URL and 4/5 questions you’d like answered.

Read MoreSEO Review of VA-Home-LoansOnline.com

Hungarian Version of the Joomla SEO eBook

We’ve been working hard on producing version 1.1 of the Joomla SEO eBook and in the meantime have a new edition to announce – its now available in Hungarian. Jozsef Tamas Herczeg from Joomlandia.eu, along with Annamaria Ban, have just launched JoomlaSEO.hu with tips and tricks for Joomla SEO in Hungarian. You can order their translation here. Other translations are currently in progress, and if you’re interested in translating the book, please feel free to contact us.  

Read MoreHungarian Version of the Joomla SEO eBook

Bank of America Launches BOFA.mobi

I’ve always been pretty cynical about the 2006 launch of .mobi. My strategy for domain investing has long been “.com and the main extensions of countries you know well”. I did buy half-a-dozen .mobi domains when they came out but have remained a pessimist since then. It seemed like a textbook example of pump-and-dump, with people hoping to sell keyword domains for a high price, before the inevitable collapse. Well, I’m prepared to admit for the first time that .mobi may actually have a chance. When I logged into to my Bank of America account this morning I saw a…

Read MoreBank of America Launches BOFA.mobi