Building a Website with Joomla 2.5 Beginners Guide

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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...]

Sunday 13 May 2012 By Leave a Comment Filed Under: Joomla Tagged With: , , , ,
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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...]

Saturday 22 October 2011 By 1 Comment Filed Under: SEO
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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...]

Sunday 28 February 2010 By 7 Comments Filed Under: Joomla, Joomla Seo Tagged With: , , , ,
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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...]

Sunday 24 January 2010 By 3 Comments Filed Under: SEO, WordPress Tagged With: , , ,
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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...]

Wednesday 6 January 2010 By Leave a Comment Filed Under: Blogging, Joomla, SEO, WordPress Tagged With: ,
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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...]

Thursday 15 October 2009 By 1 Comment Filed Under: Joomla, Joomla Seo, SEO Tagged With:
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Why Joomla, WordPress and Drupal all Fail at Search Engine Optimization

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Yes, that is right, they all fail at Search Engine Optimization... I have been reading several new posts about how well WordPress is doing SEO compared to Joomla! and how good Drupal is in SEO compared to WordPress and....well, you get the general idea. it seems that every time people are defending their choice to use a certian Content management system. Which is a good thing, you can show people the reasons why you love the system(s) that you use. We all do, we all like the system of … [Read more...]

Monday 27 April 2009 By 39 Comments Filed Under: Drupal, Joomla, SEO, WordPress Tagged With: , ,
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Lost and Regained Traffic from Google, Yahoo and MSN the Easy Way

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Above is a little picture I wanted to show you. For those among you who are used to looking at website traffic graphics you see that something strange has happened here... You see, the picture above is from one of my websites and shows clearly what the impact was of the following story. I made a mistake, a simple one but with large consequences as you can see. Because of this mistake traffic for this site almost went done to zero. But if it had gone down to zero it would have been … [Read more...]

Sunday 29 March 2009 By 12 Comments Filed Under: Optimization, Search Engines, SEO Tagged With:
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Moving from Feedburner to Google Feeds and Why?

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If you are running your feeds through Feedburner, you should know that Google bought that service in 2007. Now they are making the next step, moving the feeds from Feedburner.com to feeds.google.com. And you have to follow... and you should do it before the end of February 2009. How? well there is nice instruction written by Michel Martin from Pro Blog Design on How to Move from Feedburner to Google I just moved my Feeds over to my Google account and it is really easy and you cannot !! go … [Read more...]

Wednesday 21 January 2009 By 6 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, Search Engine Tagged With: , ,
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The new Joomla Extensions Directory JED Policy and SEO effects

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In the last week of this year Joomla announced that the Joomla Extensions Directory (JED) is going to be Only Joomla 1.5 GPL licensed Extensions as of July 1st 2009, and more importantly also all Joomla 1.0 extensions will be unpublished on the Juni 30th 2009. After the Only GPL Listing announcement, there are heated debates on this decision on Joomla Forums and Blogs like for instance by Barrie North from Compassdesign and Steve Burge from Alledia, both stating … [Read more...]

Tuesday 30 December 2008 By 5 Comments Filed Under: Joomla Tagged With: ,
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