Yesterday we took a detailed look at whether having lots of links from templates can help companies to rank well in the search engines. The answer was "yes" in MSN, but generally "no" in Google and Yahoo. Today we’re going to take the research one step further and look and links from Joomla components.
Pete Russell over at Joomla! Juice! is running a competition where two lucky prize winners will win a copy of our Joomla SEO e-Book worth $37 US plus a copy of Emir Sakic’s SEF Advance Component valued at $54 US. To win this bundle of SEO/SEF prizes valued at about $91 US, just head over to JoomlaJuice.com. While you’re over there, don’t forget to subscribe to Pete’s excellent weekly podcasts from people in the Joomla community. I’ll be on in a future episode, announcing the winner of this competition.
One of the most interesting things about working for clients is that they’ll ask questions I don’t know the answer to. This happened last week. The question was: "I have lots of incoming links from templates that we sell. That must help us to rank well…" Of course, lots of companies add a link back to their own site from templates that they sell or give away. For some companies, this can add up to 1000s of incoming links. However, my immediate instinct was to say "no". That gut reaction was based on two factors: If the links…
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I’ve just been tagged by my friend Scott Fish over at FishSEO.com. The question is, “Why Do I Blog?” Its a simple question, and deserves a simple answer. Blogging helps me deal more successfully with three groups of people:
Today we’re delighted to have a chance to talk with Lawrence Meckan from Absalom.biz. Lawrence has enormous experience with both Mambo, Joomla! and webdesign in general. He is based in Australia and is particularly involved in the development of accessible websites.
Update: This review is out-of-date. Try Joomlify.com for a great WordPress and Joomla integration. Last week talked about how having a blog hosted on your site can be a important SEO tool for your Joomla site. This week, we’ve gone on to talk about blogging with a default Joomla set-up and with the commercial MyBlog component. Both of them are strong options. Today, we’re going to look at a third useful way to blog with Joomla – OpenWP from J-Prosolution.com.
Blogs are becoming a key part of most companies’ SEO strategies. Yesterday we talked about how we blog on Alledia.com using Joomla itself. Today we’re going to take a look at another option, MyBlog from Azrul.com.
On Friday, we talked about why people should blog on their own domain, rather than using a free hosting site such as Blogger.com or WordPress.com. This week, we’re going to have a look at the best blogging alternatives for Joomla. We’ll start at home and provide a rundown of what we’ve found to be the most useful blogging tools for a default Joomla installation – these are the extensions and tools we use ourselves.
Today, we’re delighted to welcome Christopher Adams and Brad Baker from Rochen.com, to the Alledia interview hotseat(s). Chris is the founder and CEO of Rochen. Brad is a member of Rochen’s management team as well as being the Joomla Sites & Infrastructure Coordinator and serving as the Joomla.org Forum Admin. Rochen host the main Joomla! website at www.joomla.org.