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JoomlaYellowPages lists over 200 Joomla companies

JoomlaYellowPages.com now has listings for over 200 Joomla companies. If you’re looking for a Joomla developer in Fiji or a designer who speaks Belorussian, then you’ve come to the right place.   We don’t just approve anyone – all the companies on the list have Joomla experience, a clear online explanation of their Joomla services and a browsable portfolio.    Africa: 19 companies Asia: 16 companies Australasia: 18 companies Europe: 96 companies North America: 46 companies South America: 8 companies   To add your company to the site, simply register, browse through to where you live and then click "Add…

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10 Steps to Great RSS Feeds with Joomla

RSS Feeds are a great way to build visitor loyalty and to keep them coming back to your site. They’re also good for link building as people keen to keep their sites regularly updated are always looking for good RSS content. The benefit for you is that you get a link back to your site and hopefully some added traffic. So what’s the best way to set up RSS Feeds within Joomla? I’m glad you asked….

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Joomla South East Meets Tonight in Atlanta

Tonight’s going to be a lot of fun because its the first meeting of Joomla South East, one of a growing number of Joomla User Groups around the world. We’re meeting tonight (Wednesday, May 16th) from 7.30  to 9.30 pm at the Eclipse di Luna Restaurant  (). For those of you that know Atlanta, we’ve tried to make the meeting as accessible as possible be hold the meeting close to the center of the city, where i85, i75 and i20 all meet.

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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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