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- Joomla SEO and Blogging
- A new Joomla Blog Template that stands out
- How to use sh404SEF to Improve MojoBlog SEF and SEO
- Giving your Joomla Blog section a different Template
- Joomla 1.5 Stable release now ready for Download and How to go Further
- Putting your Joomla Blog set up on the Frontpage
- Building a Better RSS Feed for you Joomla Blog
- Blogs and RSS explained the easy way
- Creating Your own Blog category Menu
- How to find a Joomla Blog template
Posted: 25 Oct 2009 12:57 PM PDT You are reading Joomla SEO and Blogging, an article from SEO for Blogs. I recently finished my book on Joomla 1.5 SEO by Packt Publishing, you know the company behind several great Joomla Books and of course the Open Source CMS Awards. One chapter in the book is about Joomla! Blogging and RSS Feeds. This chapter is now made free for you to download! Use this link Joomla! Blogging and RSS Feeds to get download the PDF file. Here is a Summary of Chapter 5:
I hope this free chapter will give you even more insight in the possibilities of Blogging with Joomla. P.s. And if you want to buy the book after finding this chapter useful, I won’t hold it against you… Want to read more in this topic? Go to SEO for Blogs. |
A new Joomla Blog Template that stands out Posted: 23 Nov 2008 12:15 PM PST You are reading A new Joomla Blog Template that stands out, an article from SEO for Blogs. Joomlart.com released a new template called JA Uvite and it is really one of the greatest templates I have seen that you can use on a Joomla based Weblog. The templates features some module’s in its footer that you could use for Related items, Recent posts and even for recent comments if you have a Joomla comment component and modules installed. A great homepage setup like in their example makes this template one of a kind. I really like te colors and the way the modules are placed though out the page. You can download the template if you are a member of the Joomlart template club, membership includes not only this template, but at the moment you have access to 60 others and more to come! Which I think is a great deal for the great looking templates the put out every month. Want to read more in this topic? Go to SEO for Blogs. |
How to use sh404SEF to Improve MojoBlog SEF and SEO Posted: 08 May 2008 01:38 PM PDT You are reading How to use sh404SEF to Improve MojoBlog SEF and SEO, an article from SEO for Blogs. As I mentioned in an earlier post about MojoBlog, that the only thing missing with this Blog tool for Joomla where the SEF options to create nice SEF URLs, and missing the Title tag for each post. Reading some posts from www.goodwebpractices.com and www.alledia.com I wanted to see if the options in the advanced settings of the SEF Component sh404SEF would help to overcome these MojoBlog problems. It did!! and it wasn’t even that difficult, so I thought I would share this with you, so you can do the same… Getting sh404SEF Component and Module ready First of is getting the sh404SEF component to show you its real strength! And you see nothing there that can help you… now just click on the item next to this screen that says “select advance parameters: After this, you will see a screen with some more items to use in this great SEF and SEO Component:
As you can see now, there are to items on this screen that you can use to get some great stuff for you MojoBlog posts. But before you can get to work on those items, you have to make sure of one other very important item to be published! There are a lot of parameters below this screen, but you only have to set it to published, that’s it. Creating the SEF URL Once you have done the above things to get everything into place, lets start by creating a SEF URL for a MojoBlog post. First go to the front-end, while making sure the site, or just the MojoBlog component is NOT showing SEF URLs. You need this to get the “old non SEF URL” to put into the settings. Copy this part of the URL and then go back to the sh404SEF Panel and click on: And then choose “new” , this will bring up a field that will aks for that old URL and the new one.
Save the new URL and you are done with this part, you could check if it works already. Getting the Title and Metatags to Work You have seen another nice items in the sh404SEF Control panel… it says “Metatags” Before you click on it, make sure you have the ”Old URL” you used earlier at hand, because you are going to need it here as well. After you clicked on the above icon , choose “new meta” from the upper right-hand menu. You will get a screen like the one below:
As you can see, the first file is where your old URL should go.
If you are satisfied with your lyrics, save it and go to the front-end, selecting the post you just worked on, in the source code of that screen you should see the Title, description and keywords you just entered… One final thing remains, but that is out of you hands…. wait for Google or other search engines to re-index you page so you can check if what you did is indeed what the robots will pick-up… If you want so see if things work on a live example, go to Hummerbie Mojo Blog and check some of the posts. P.s. One more tip… the “Old URLs” from MojoBlog contain the last code &p=10 (or another number) and that last number correspond with the post ID from MojoBlog. So if you know that number, you can use the old URL you copied and just change the last number. Want to read more in this topic? Go to SEO for Blogs. |
Giving your Joomla Blog section a different Template Posted: 10 Feb 2008 11:47 AM PST You are reading Giving your Joomla Blog section a different Template, an article from SEO for Blogs. Did you know you can assign different templates to different sections that are called on by your Joomla menu? Let’s say you want your Joomla Blog categories to have a different Template then the rest of your website, how would you do this? First you have to create a menu item that holds your section, or the categories like you did in Creating your Blog Menu Now go to “Site” -> “Template manager” -> ” Site Templates” and there select the template you want to use. Now you can select the menu item(s) that should show the different layout. Go to the Frontpage of your website, and try the link yourself, look if it works…it does…! So, where could you run into trouble and how to fix it…. for this to work, you should select two (or more) templates that have the same modules like ” left”, “right” end other positions you want to use, since you can only assign a module to one position. If you have a template that works the wrong way, you could try to chance position calls in the index.php of the template (via the HTML editor in your template manager) . I know, it is so simple, you just don’t think about it this way… Want to read more in this topic? Go to SEO for Blogs. |
Joomla 1.5 Stable release now ready for Download and How to go Further Posted: 22 Jan 2008 05:21 AM PST You are reading Joomla 1.5 Stable release now ready for Download and How to go Further, an article from SEO for Blogs. Today Joomla 1.5 Stable release is a fact, Just read the announcement form the Joomla Core team and Download your version form the Joomla 1.5 Files. So how to move forward from here, and what will bring Joomla 1.5 use in SEO and SEF options? I will not be writing about this release here, but on my own Joomla, WordPress and SEO Blog, because I don’t have the time anymore to update three blogs. So if you want to keep getting great information on Joomla and Search Engine Optimization, make sure you get the RSS Feed of Joomla Search Engine Optimization. I hope to see you there! I wil still monitor this blog and reposnd to comments, just no new posts… Want to read more in this topic? Go to SEO for Blogs. |
Putting your Joomla Blog set up on the Frontpage Posted: 26 Dec 2007 03:01 AM PST You are reading Putting your Joomla Blog set up on the Frontpage, an article from SEO for Blogs. I have set up an example Blog to let you see some of the nice components you can read about at the Joomla Blog Components page Especially with the mojoBlog component as the frontpage of the website. To get the mojoBlog, or any other component, to load on the frontpage instead of the Joomla frontpage you have to do two things. First, create a menu item linking to the component. The first menu item of the mainmenu is always the one that shows up on your website. So, here is the example (in Dutch) with the Red Evolution Scrapbook template. De Joomla Blog Want to read more in this topic? Go to SEO for Blogs. |
Building a Better RSS Feed for you Joomla Blog Posted: 19 Dec 2007 02:41 AM PST You are reading Building a Better RSS Feed for you Joomla Blog, an article from SEO for Blogs. If you have worked with Joomla, you know about its syndication function, right? If not, go publish the module called “Syndication” but most likely you hae seen it on the Frontpage after a new installation of Joomla! Click on the RSS 2.0 icon and look how it turns out…. o, and the articles you see there are ONLY from the frontpage! As you can see, there are no layout options, no images, just text.. Improving your Joomla Blog Feeds But there is help, via a great component called DS-Syndication! DS-Syndication is installed like a normal component and comes with some great features, like a button maker for your RSS Icons, but there is a lot more that this component does. Like giving you the oppertunity to create feeds for each section or categorie, or bundeling more sections or categories end even create a feed for a section and than exclude a categorie… oké this might be a little overwhelming I guess. So lets take a look at some screen shots of this component: Like there is the Button maker, which is Fun, but not why you should use this component: Are there is also a Ping manager and a Ping functionality build in, Ping is just ping… Setting up the good stuff for your Joomla Blog
Now we go in the into the functionality why you want this component… Configuration of your Feed(s) from your Blog section and / or categories. First you can see how to get to the screen and then I will tell you about some of the settings to use: Now after this you get a big screen with lots of settings: And in more detail! So there it is, a lot of settings to choose from, most of them can stay the way they are, but some of them you really should change!
Leave the rest the way it is as standard. You see, you can now have several feeds for each section of for each category, just setup a new feed. You want to check how the feed looks, just click on the Feed URL: You should see the articles form your blog with all the layout and images in tact, just as you want them to be! There is also a special module you can install that shows you all the feeds you created, but I suggest you run your feeds through www.feedburner.com for optimal settings. You can also see some real live feed on the site of SEO for Open Source CMS The DS-Syndication component is brought to you by www.joomlafun.com and can be downloaded from http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/dssyndicate/ Have fun building a Better RSS Feed for you Joomla Blog! Technorati Tags: , Joomla Blog, blogging, DS Syndication, Joomla,, Joomla Component, RSS, Feed, Syndication, Want to read more in this topic? Go to SEO for Blogs. |
Blogs and RSS explained the easy way Posted: 30 Nov 2007 03:34 AM PST You are reading Blogs and RSS explained the easy way, an article from SEO for Blogs. I found these very nice simple tutorials on the Internet that you might want to check out, because they provide simple plain English information about Blogging and RSS Feeds These are video animations about why you want to Blog: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/NN2I1pWXjXI] [blip.tv ?posts_id=517547&dest=-1] And how people are going to use the RSS Feeds you will be creating with Joomla! [blip.tv ?posts_id=209879&dest=-1] Have Fun! Technorati Tags: Blogs, Information, Joomla, RSS Feed, Syndication, Want to read more in this topic? Go to SEO for Blogs. |
Creating Your own Blog category Menu Posted: 26 Nov 2007 11:58 AM PST You are reading Creating Your own Blog category Menu, an article from SEO for Blogs. To separate your Blog form the rest of your Joomla based website, you should give it his, of her, own Menu module. To do this you simply create a new Menu Module. Click new, and Fill the two fields with the text of your choice, but please don’t use just Blog ! because this could get you into problems with some Sef components… If you think your done, think again… the module is created, but not active yet. As you can see, there are several options for you menu, just like all the other menu options. From here on it is your choice on how to put the categories in from you Blogging section. Create tables, or Blog layouts, within the menu as you see fit, but please be consistent enough for you site visitors! Starting with you Blog section on the Frontpage What if you really just want to use Joomla for Blogging… you don’t want to start with the standard Frontpage! No, you want to show your your Blogging section and the latest Blog content from different categories, wouldn’t that be great? And it is possible, with just one menu item, in the main menu… Create a new menu item in the Main menu and link it to a Blog section choice, select all the Blogging categories to show and set the layout values you want to use. Now move the just created menu item up the menu ladder until it is in first position , above Home! Check the preview of your site and see how Joomla uses the First item in the main menu to start your site with… For your menu, you get something like the menu below, where your visitors can directly go to their Blog category of intrest. Technorati Tags: Blog, blogging, Joomla, layout Want to read more in this topic? Go to SEO for Blogs. |
How to find a Joomla Blog template Posted: 12 Nov 2007 07:13 AM PST You are reading How to find a Joomla Blog template, an article from SEO for Blogs. So, you have got the categories and sections done, created you first post and it all went fine. So I your really want to get a great looking Joomla based Blog, then the template should also be a bit Blog-styled. Now here are a few templates that you can use for Blogging with Joomla. The first one is a free template form www.redevolution.com with great old fashion feeling to it. But if you want something more clean, then maybe the Newswire version is more your thing: This template also has some Blogging like features like the Double Menu positions on the right-hand side of the template. Or you could use a free template like Haiku from Rockettheme, a template that will give some peaceful meanings to your Blog, or so you might one to think so. Or of course you want to go full out and buy a Professional template that has a high Web 2.0 ring to it or is more glossy and up-to-date with glossy looks. Which ever way you want to go, make sure you have a template and images to match the topic of your Joomla based Blog. That way people are more likely to see what your Blog is about at first glance, thus making it easier for you to get subscribers to your feed, and as that number rises, your are on your way to successful blogging with Joomla. Technorati Tags: blogging,, commercial, , free, , Joomla, , positions, template Want to read more in this topic? Go to SEO for Blogs. |
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