No. 1 on Google and No Clicks

Title Problem traffic drop effect

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...]

+Herbert-Jan van Dinther

Weblog engines reviewed by Smashing magazine

wordpress-joomla-drupal-blogging

Yet another great post from Smashing Magazine, this time Glen Stansberry wrote post reviewing of 10 Weblog Engines among them WordPress, Drupal and Joomla! Af course they included MovableType and ExpressionEngine which I also tried but didn't like that much. Looking and writing about the following aspects of each engine: Programming language. What features you’ll need. The size of the software’s community. The age of the software. If you … [Read more...]

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WordPress SEO Post and Joomla Lessons

Joost de Valk has written a great article on his new website about WordPress and SEO, Calling it "The Definitive Guide To High Rankings For Your Blog"  and I must say, he does a splendid Job in working through all the aspects of SEO for WordPress.And indeed the Blogging world is raving about this article as well:Here are few … [Read more...]

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A new Blog? No, it just moved..

Most of you, have found this Blog to be on a sub-domain from the main site Design Cars. And although that was were it started, it soon became obvious to me that it was not the best place for it. No, Design Cars and this Joomla SEO Blog did not really match...from an SEO point of view that is. Next to my other site and Blog about Joomla! Pathos Seo and that Joomla Blog I wanted to give you more information on search Engine Optimization for Joomla and WordPress and in a later stage … [Read more...]

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One of the fastest ways to get into Google… Blog and RSS Feeds

If you want to know how fast you can get into the Google index... My best time is 38 Minutes :-) No really!, I wrote the post about Joomla 1.5 RC 4 and the SEF patch just about 40 minutes ago.... I do have a Google alert on "Joomla SEO" which should inform me if anything with Joomla SEO is posted or written on The Internet. And I got an email with the alert that my Post was "discovered", so I did a search on simply "Joomla sef rc4", about 11.800 results showed up, and the post was … [Read more...]

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Working a WordPress Blog into Joomla!

MojoBlog Component selection for administrators

Last Year I wrote about the fact that it is a Great Option the use a WordPress Blog in a subdirectory of your Joomla installation the Improve the Search Engine Visibility of your Website. Before that I looked at the WP-JD Component to Integrate a WordPress Blog inside Joomla itself.. which was not really that great, because of the Instability of the Component, on my site at least. At Joomla.org it seems to work fine.. up to a point. But know there is a (Please be aware of this if you … [Read more...]

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