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Some good news today for those of you worried about the search engine rankings of your Joomla sites. According to an inteview with Vanessa Fox from Google, there will be no penalty for having duplicate content (that is: having many URLs pointing to the same page). Joomla and other CMS systems often produce several duplicate URLs. According to Fox, you can use a Google SiteMap to tell the search engine which URL you do want listed. Otherwise the Google bots will do it for you and pick just one of your multiple URLs. Either way, there won’t be a penalty. …

This week has been SEO week here at Alledia, so Friday afternoon must be time for another tip. This one is deceptively simple and comes courtesy of Veloniue Petros over at Over at the Joomla! forum he posted a deceptively simple solution to Joomlas lack of h2 and h3 headings. Google automatically thinks that it you have text wrapped up in headline tags then it must contain more important clues to your page contents than whatever appears in lowly paragraph tags Unfortunately, Joomla! comes out-of-the-box with headings that are wrapped up in long ugly code. By changing a few…

Love it or hate it, DMOZ.org has loomed large of webmasters heads for years now, but it seems likely thats its days are numbered.   By clicking here you can read our article from early this year about the history of the DMOZ and its importance, but technical problems are threatening to render years of credibiliy obsolete in just a month. No new submissions are being accepted and editors can’t login. In fact, they are not even being told what the problems are. A group are publicly venting on this forum thread.   For a centerpiece of the web, DMOZ…

This is one of an ongoing series of blog posts about problems with Joomla and SEO, and more importantly – how to fix them.   As we find time we're going to expand and merge these articles into a longer and more comprehensive guide to Joomla SEO. Watch this space. Joomla produces your site name first and then your page title. For example, see this search.   Many Joomla sites will look like this when the ideal situation would be to have everything reversed:  Datso Gallery User Tab Plugin Released. Joomlapolis – the home of Community Builder. That way people…

We write an article every month for a magazine distributed around Atlanta. December’s article is a brief introduction to more advanced Search Engine Optimization techniques that small businesses can use.   We focus on two of the most useful techniques, building minisites and optimizing your inside pages.   Click here to read the full article.