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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Weblog engines reviewed by Smashing magazine

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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...]

Friday 29 August 2008 By Leave a Comment Filed Under: Blogging, Drupal, Joomla, WordPress Tagged With: , , , , ,
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Google Insights use for analysis and upcoming trends

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My Google Alert on Joomla SEO just brought me this link to an Google Insights Article that also discussed the use of this new tool in conjunction with the previous mentioned report in Open Source CMS Market shares. What interested me even more was how these figures where on a regional level, so I did some comparisons between Worldwide, USA, UK and the Netherlands. The outcome did somehow surprise me... Below the graphics for the Worldwide search, showing clearly the search for Joomla as … [Read more...]

Thursday 7 August 2008 By Leave a Comment Filed Under: Search Engine, SEO Tagged With: , , , , , , ,
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Water & Stone Reporting on Open Source CMS Market 2008

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Today I read a Report from Water & Stone, a big name in the Mambo community as one of there Templates is a great looking one with a lot of installations. The report (which you can download here) brings numbers and conclusions on Market shares of Open Source CMS like Joomla!, Drupal, WordPress and many others like e107,Typo3, Modx, Elgg en more... In the report there are clearly three Big names in Open Source CMS, not that we did not know who the leaders are, but Rik Shreves does a great … [Read more...]

Tuesday 29 July 2008 By Leave a Comment Filed Under: Drupal, Joomla, WordPress Tagged With: , , ,
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