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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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...]

Saturday 27 September 2008 By 11 Comments Filed Under: Joomla Seo Tagged With: , , , , , , ,
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Joomla Duplicate Content and Dynamic URLs – Google’s view

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In the last few days, the Joomla SEO and Bloggers community have been writing a lot about two posts on the Official Webmaster Blog. Two posts, one about Demystifying the "duplicate content penalty" and the other on Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs. From a Joomla webmaster point of view, these items look as if they would turn the world of Joomla SEO upside down... Yes, Joomla can produce multiple URLs that pint to just one content item and Yes, Joomla is a Content Management System … [Read more...]

Wednesday 24 September 2008 By 17 Comments Filed Under: Joomla Seo, SEF, SEO Tagged With: , , , , ,
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Joomla 1.5.5 and SEF Improvements

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Joomla released a new version 1.5.5 after just three weeks of the 1.5.4. release. That release had a serious defect in producing duplicate title code in the HTML output, that has been fixed in this new release. But they did not stop at that... they went on to improve the SEF part of this new version. Some of these improvements are also targeted to the SEF URLs, especially for Blog section and categories. If you want to know more about the improvement in this version, please check Joomla … [Read more...]

Monday 28 July 2008 By Leave a Comment Filed Under: Joomla Tagged With: , , ,
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A Joomla SEO Post I didn’t want to write…

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This is really a post about Joomla and SEO I would rather not have written.... but it is a great case studie, so here we go...About 3 weeks back I did some work on my major dutch website, replacing a SEF component, replacing the template and also updating the site to Joomla 1.0.13 which I should have done some time ago.. (no not to Joomla 1.0.14 yet, but you will see in the end why not).The SEF ComponentsI wanted to replace the OpenSEF component with sh404SEF, mainly because of the way the … [Read more...]

Thursday 21 February 2008 By 2 Comments Filed Under: Joomla Seo Tagged With: , , , ,
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Search Engine Friendly? A WordPress, Joomla and Drupal Comparison.

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First off, search engine friendly is not the same as search engine optimized! This is something Joost de Valk already wrote about in his post Search Engine Friendly vs Search Engine Optimized Search engine optimization does go a lot further then making a search engine friendly website, and building a Content Management system for websites that is search engine optimized..., that is just not possible... What is possible is to look at the search engine friendliness of three popular Open … [Read more...]

Friday 18 January 2008 By 19 Comments Filed Under: Drupal, Joomla, SEF, SEO, WordPress Tagged With: , , , ,
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