Joomla 1.5 Stable release now ready for Download and How to go Further

Joomla 1.5 Stable

Today Joomla 1.5 Stable release is a fact, Just read the announcement form the Joomla Core team and Download your version form the Joomla 1.5 Files.   So how to move forward from here, and what will bring Joomla 1.5 use in SEO and SEF options? I will not be writing about this release here, but on my own Joomla, WordPress and SEO Blog, because I don't have … [Read more...]

OpenSEF alternatives for Search Engine Optimization

I wrote some time ago that OpenSEF development has been taken over by new maintainers. Because I don't know yet how and when a new release is planned I thought I would start looking at alternatives to some of the most used features in OpenSEF. Now, don't take this the wrong way, OpenSEF is still a great component that has many great features and you can still Download … [Read more...]

How to Use Joomla Titles to Improve your Search Engine Optimization

Joomla Title Alias

As you might know, the most important factor for Search Engine Optimization (besides content..) is the Title Tag. In Joomla the Title of your page is the first part of your Content screen.   Writing good titles is essential if you want to get found on the keywords you are targeting. But you also want to keep the titles on your pages short, to make sure … [Read more...]

Joomla SEF Components Update

Steve Burge over at www.alledia.com (great Joomla SEO Blog, highly recommended) does a quick update on the status of the mayor Joomla SEF components  Most Interesting and schocking to me was the fact that the site of OpenSef at http://j-prosolution.com/ has been taken off site.... Luckily the component has been rescued by Chris Davenport and is now available as … [Read more...]

The Joomla Tutorials Website

Yesterday I was browsing some of my statistics and found a querie in Google that was very interesting. It was a search for a manual for the OpenSEF component and the top ranking site, which I didn't now of was this one: The Open Source Network.eu which holds over 160+ Joomla and Mambo video tutorials for free !! So what kind of tutorials to expect: JCE Editor … [Read more...]

Keeping your Joomla site running

I few months back I had a problem with one of my Joomla based websites. When I accessed the site there was just thus error about session_id's And a problem that I now know how to solve "DB function failed with error number 1016" If you need to now how to fix this, check this Joomla Forum post . The problem could occur if there is no regular login from the Administrator … [Read more...]

More Speed for Your Joomla site

I talked to you about How to speed up your Joomla Site and now I have to tell your the next step to take... A new Joomla Cache Component  There is a new component for Caching your Joomla website, and it works great for the sites I run and my customers websites. Dramatically increasing the loading time of your visitors! The component comes from www.ircmaxell.com and was … [Read more...]

Joomla SEF Reviews and Joomap Tip

A couple of months ago I told you about the Joomap and why you should get one but Alledia now wrote about an additional way to Improve your indexing. But that was not not all, they recently done a Joomla URL week about several Joomla SEF Components, the conclusions can be read at Joomla URL Week Conclusions I stick to my OpenSEF component as my most favorite one, and … [Read more...]

How To speed up your Joomla site

Joomla Statistics Setting

Inspired by the post on Alledia blog about Speed and Joomla, I thought I would write some things about how to improve the speed of your Joomla website, using some Joomla integrated stuff and some free tools. Speed is important, both for Search Engine spiders as for the visitors of your website! First thing you should do, is test your website with the The Ocatagate … [Read more...]

The difference between RSS Feed and RSS Feed in Joomla

This post is just to explain two components in Joomla, both are related to RSS Feeds. Joomla News Feeds Component  The First one goes under the component name "News Feeds" and it can be used to integrate RSS Feed content of Other websites into your pages. So lets say you want the content of this Blog to appear in you Joomla website.., just as a service to your visitors. … [Read more...]