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

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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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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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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...]

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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...]

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Nooku? Nooku! The way to go for Multi-language Joomla sites

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A few weeks ago I didn't know what to think of Nooku... I heard of it, read the Blog posts at Joomlatools.org but still saw it as a new Joomfish component. But then I got to the eduvision Joomla conferentie were Johan Janssens and Mathias Verraes did a presentation on their new Joomla Content translation component Nooku. Although Johan warned us about the fact that "Live demonstrations have a tendency to go wrong" theirs run without any noticeable problems. For you who havent heard … [Read more...]

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