Building a Website with Joomla 2.5 Beginners Guide

Joomla-2-5-Beginners-Guide

I did not work on a new Joomla website since I wrote Joomla! 1.5 SEO as I was more interested in working with WordPress at that time. I wanted to see if, and if so how much, better WordPress was / is when it comes to search engine optimization. I will tell you how that turned out in a new post later this month. For now I am trying to get into the Joomla 2.5 game and see how much has improved with this new version. Did I work with Joomla 1.6 and 1.7? No, and I almost did not work with 2.5 … [Read more...]

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Start Blogging on SEO and More…

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It has been 1 year, 7 months and 25 days since my last post on this blog... During that time I did a lot of work on client websites and setting up websites to earn money as an affiliate. From the later I learned the most on how search engine optimization has changed in that timespan. In The Netherlands where I live Google has a market share of almost 99% so you can imagine that SEO here is heavily focused on how to get top rankings in Google. With the Google Panda update (yes, it hit … [Read more...]

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Joomla 1.5 Multimedia by Allan Walker – A Book to Consider!

Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia by Allan Walker

I received a review copy of Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia from Packt Publishers and was expecting to read a lot that I already know about Images and the image manager in Joomla!. But instead it was an eye-opener about the possibilities that Joomla! and some special extensions gives you to create a complete multimedia experience for your visitors. This book is a great addition to your search engine optimisation efforts as we all now that video, mp3, podcast en mobile web interfaces are becoming … [Read more...]

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No. 1 on Google and No Clicks

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In the last few months I have been moving some websites from subdomains to new domains and sometimes changing there apperance. Here is what happened on one of them... The site was number One on Google for a long tail keywords phrase and it site was getting some nice traffic from this term. After the move from its sub-domain life and going into its own domain I changed the template to a more suitable one and optimized the site to get more traffic. One thing I did was the craft the Home … [Read more...]

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Moving Hummerbie’s SEO Blog to its new home

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As I mentioned on Twitter before, the next step in my 2010 cleanup was Hummerbie, the moving of the Blog that is, not the site Hummerbie.com. If you are reading this post via your RSS Feed reader or your Feed Mail subscription the Joomla SEO Blog is now on HerbertvanDinther.com, yes on its own domain and no longer in a subdomain of a Joomla! based website. It has served its purpose in getting traffic for its Big Brother, and now its time to set it free on its own to see if it can grow … [Read more...]

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It’s Done… The Joomla 1.5 SEO Book is out Now!

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For those who have missed my writings, this is why you did not see much blogging going on here over the last 10 months... As it is just released Packt is promoting the Book with a special discount that will expire on the 24th of Oct 2009. So get your copy NOW with the special discount at http://www.packtpub.com/article/exclusive-discount-offer-joomla-seo before it expires. And I promise I will start blogging about SEO again on a regular base :-) Need more info on what you can … [Read more...]

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