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
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...]
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...]
How To speed up your Joomla site
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...]
Using RSS Feed Syndication for your Joomla website Promotion
Joomla! has some great features build in to set up an RSS Feed that your visitors can describe to. First a short explanation of RSS from wikipedia; "A web feed is a data format used for serving users frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it." This means that the content of the updated or new … [Read more...]
The all Important Metatag Description for SEO
Please make sure that You use your Metatag Description the right way. Looking at Metatags, lots of people think that the metatags aren't that important anymore, so they tend to ignore them. Now it is a fact that, due to spamming the keyword metatag in earlier website ages, this has lost a lot off relevance for your position in the search engines. But, and this is really … [Read more...]
Using Hypens and Not Underscores in Joomla SEO
Most people I guess are still wondering if the should go for Hypens - or Underscores _ in their URL rewrite. Please don't wonder any more, because there is a clear statement in guest blog post on Matt Cutss (Google Engineer) Blog by Vanessa Fox (Also from Google) Organic Site review session " And speaking of putting a dash in URLs, hyphens are often better than … [Read more...]
Little Book on Joomla SEO
Just a short update from my other private blog.... I have made an e-Book of 22 pages covering the same aspects of making Joomla Search Engine optimized. This is my first e-Book, and I don't think I will make another one pretty soon :-) I have to translate it into dutch also, but here is the release post. The Little Joomla SEO Book Ready P.s. This doesn't mean I will … [Read more...]
