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: , ,
+Herbert-Jan van Dinther

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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Ranking on Google is going to change in 2009

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If you keep an eye on things that are happening on Google, you will find some interesting things going on at this moment. Ranking and Google Changes First I want to point you to two video's from webpronews.com, the first one is an interview with Bruce Clay about this presentation Ranking is Dead where is looks at how Universal search is going to effect your Search Engine Page results. The other one is at the same site, but now an interview with Matt Cutts on some of the Changes … [Read more...]

Monday 24 November 2008 By 21 Comments Filed Under: Search Engine, SEO Tagged With: , , ,
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Learn SEO from Google’s webmasters

If you don't have an RSS feed subscription on the Google Webmaster Central Blog yest, I strongly advice you te get one... On there latest post they included an nice basic SEO Starters Guide from Google which you might want to forward to some of your customers. What better way to educate them then sending them a document produced by the Guys that know Google the best. Af course it is just a basic SEO Guide, but it shows some fine examples of things you need to get done for better … [Read more...]

Thursday 13 November 2008 By 4 Comments Filed Under: Joomla Seo, SEO Tagged With: , ,
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