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Review of JoomSEO Mambot

As part of a my goal to review every SEO tool for Joomla, I’m moving on to mambots this week.   We’ve previously reviewed Search Engine Friendly URL components such as Open-SEF, SEF Advance and Artio SEF and patches such at the Joomlatwork SEF Patch.   Mambots (or plug-ins) are generally much smaller extensions, often just two files, but they can have a dramatic effect on site’s operation as we’ll see with JoomSEO.

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Google’s URL Removal Really Works

A few months back, I blogged that Google was becoming more choosy on the pages it crawled and that having a few high-quality pages on a site might be a better strategy than a lot of low-quality pages. Our suggested solution was to add unwanted URLs and directories to your robots.txt file. However, that’s an imperfect solution because search engines don’t always obey the directions in robots, nor do they act quickly. Fortunately, there’s a new, improved solution….

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Joomla 1.0 or Joomla 1.5?

Currently people building websites with Joomla are in an odd situation. There’s no upgrade path from Joomla 1.0.12 to Joomla 1.5, so we need to make a choice. Do we recommend the current stable version or do we ask customers to be patient and wait for the new, shiny updated Joomla?

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4 Reasons Why Archives Should be Archived

The web still has lots of carry-overs from the real-world. Think of the way the names given to so many online items, such as folders, bookmarks, pages and tabs. They comfort people by reminding them of a real-world office. As people become more comfortable online we can dispense with some key 20th century ideas. Among these, perhaps the most useless of all is the Archive. Back in the day, when we needed row-upon-row of dusty filing cabinets to store the information of a single organization, archives were a neccessary evil. In the online world, they’re next to useless. Allow me…

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How to Fill the SERPs with Your Company

There’s been a lot of talk recently about how Wikipedia dominates almost every search result delivered by Google:   Search for Joomla, and Wikipedia is there at #3. Search for Drupal and Wikipedia is there at #3. Search for Moodle and Wikipedia is there at #4. Search for WordPress and Wikipedia is there at #8.   It seems the only way to escape Wikipedia’s clutches is to be too unimportant to be included.   Recently, I’ve noticed a rival creeping up the rankings ….

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