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For a final part to our series on speeding up your Joomla site, I’d like to give a recommend two companies who are working on tools to make Joomla faster. I make it a point to check the Joomla Extensions website every day to keep track of new developments but I’ve only seen two add-ons that significantly improve performance. Because of the price, I can’t recommend these for use this on all sites but if you do have a key website and some spare change, both of these extensions are worth the investment: As always – there are no…
This week we’re trying to answer one of the most common questions in the Joomla world: “What is the best URL setup for Joomla and why?” Yesterday I talked about default Joomla URLs and why they are a bad idea for your Joomla site. Today is Part 2 of the quest we’re going to look at the default Joomla Search Engine Friendly URLs. Lets see whether this set up is any more useful….
Working in Joomla SEO and browsing the forums, there is one question I hear more frequently than any other: "What is the best URL setup for Joomla and why?" Reading around, I haven’t been able to find a clear answer currently available. So to resolve this question, this will be "Joomla URL Week" here at Alledia. Each day we’re going to break down one of the five most common URL setups with Joomla: Weekend: Default Joomla URLs Monday: Default Joomla SEF URLs Tuesday: Review of Artio SEF Wednesday: Review of Open SEF Thursday: Review of SEF Advance Friday: Conclusions…
Working with Joomla SEO on a daily basis, I’ve been through every SEO tool available. There’s only one that has proved to be indispensible – the Joomla Search Engine Optimisation Patch from Joomlatwork.com. What does it allow you to do? Have complete control over page metatitles Control whether Google takes a snippet from your page for the results page Easily add "follow" or "nofollow" links to individual pages Add custom meta fields Disable the Joomla meta generator tag All of these are key factors in giving your site a ranking boost. JPromoter from JoomlaEquipment.com does similar things. The disadvantage…
A short and sweet post today, following up yesterday’s discussion about making your Joomla site smaller and faster. Someone over at Digg recently pointed out that if Digg made one small change they could save thousands of dollars in hosting costs ever year. That change is to send out webpages in a compressed format. When you get a Joomla component it is often contained in a zip file. This enables the file to be much smaller without damaging the content in any way. You can do the same thing with webpages. In Joomla you just need to click “Yes” in…
Over the last few years, we’ve seen revelations about the huge amounts of data that Google collects about us, our websites, our browsing habits and our lives in general. Wikipedia has a list of everything Google knows about you, and thats only what has been confirmed. Although theres a server full of information about you in Google headquarters, there’s only piece of data about your website that they consider important enough to put in their search results – the size of your website: For Alledia.com its 48k. Why might this be the single most important statistic about your website?…
1) Hi Les & Andy. Could you tell us a little about yourself? How did you come to Joomla? What’s your background? Well, I can tell you one thing is for sure, I don’t have a big ego, I’m way too cool for that! I guess that summarizes everything, so just click on JoomlaStorm.com. All joking aside, my experiences in this grand ole world range from having my diapers changed by my mother to jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. I’m a big fan of the outdoors, I love the Discovery channel (Man vs Wild), I wig-out to Pink Floyd,…
One of the most interesting Joomla developments in 2007 has been a new magazine created every week by one man – Brian Teeman, a former member of the Joomla core team. Each weekly release has the following features: A focus on a particular theme. Week 5 had the theme of "hunger" and Week 6 was "Africa". Brian hunts down and reviews around a dozen quality Joomla sites in each niche. An update of all the latest extensions released for Joomla. Five minute interviews with key figures in the Joomla world. An overview of the latest code changes in…
The other day I’d been doing some testing on the search features for client’s site and I came up with some interesting results. This website, based around sports, was pulling up results headed “Mambo”, “PHP.net”, “MySQL.com”. I checked on Alledia.com and the same thing was happening: I’d forgotten something really simple … by default Joomla comes with the “Search Newsfeeds”, “Search Weblinks” and “Search Contacts” mambots published. If you never get around to deleting all the newsfeeds and weblinks, they’ll then turn up in the search results. So, I unpublished those mambots, and also those the called “Search Sections” and…