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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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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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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Learn SEO from Google’s webmasters

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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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