Joomla Blogging and SEO for Joomla Moved

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A few weeks ago the WordPress.com based Blog on Joomla Blogging and Seo 4 Joomla were closed down by WordPress.com for violating their Terms Of Service. I also had a Dutch WordPress.com site shutdown and after an email to the people of WordPress that was brought back up. The problem with all three of the sites was the fact that they linked to my website about Joomla … [Read more...]

Joomla SEO and Blogging

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I recently finished my book on Joomla 1.5 SEO by Packt Publishing, you know the company behind several great Joomla Books and of course the Open Source CMS Awards. One chapter in the book is about Joomla! Blogging and RSS Feeds. This chapter is now made free for you to download! Use this link Joomla! Blogging and RSS Feeds to get download the PDF file. Here is a … [Read more...]

Putting your Joomla Blog set up on the Frontpage

Main Menu Joomla First Position

I have set up an example Blog to let you see some of the nice components you can read about at the Joomla Blog Components page Especially with the mojoBlog component as the frontpage of the website. To get the mojoBlog, or any other component, to load on the frontpage instead of the Joomla frontpage you have to do two things. First, create a menu item linking to … [Read more...]

Building a Better RSS Feed for you Joomla Blog

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If you have worked with Joomla, you know about its syndication function, right? If not, go publish the module called "Syndication" but most likely you hae seen it on the Frontpage after a new installation of Joomla! Click on the RSS 2.0 icon and look how it turns out.... o, and the articles you see there are ONLY from the frontpage! Here are some screen shots of you … [Read more...]

Creating Your own Blog category Menu

Joomla Blog Menu

To separate your Blog form the rest of your Joomla based website, you should give it his, of her, own Menu module. To do this you simply create a new Menu Module. You can do this by going into your Administrator panel and choose Menu -> Menu Manager, you now see als the menu's that are already in the system. Click new, and Fill the two fields with the text of … [Read more...]

How to find a Joomla Blog template

JoomlaShack Templates

So, you have got the categories and sections done, created you first post and it all went fine. The Joomla Blog Layout options for your Blog menu is working fine, but as you look at the frontpage of your site, it doesn't look like a Blog, does it? So I your really want to get a great looking Joomla based Blog, then the template should also be a bit Blog-styled. Now … [Read more...]

The Joomla Blog categorie choice and Layout set up

Joomla Blog Menu Parts

If you want to setup a Blog, here is my first advice: Setup a section like " Blogging","articles" or something alike, then put in that section a categorie like " Weblog" or "Blogging". Please do NOT use a categorie "Blog"... because some SEF components for Joomla take that as a replacement for " Blogsection or Blogcategory! And you do want to use a SEF Component, … [Read more...]