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May 09 2008
Good and Bad Internal Linking
SEO
Written by Steve Burge   
Friday, 09 May 2008

Until recently it was easy to laugh at newspapers and their attempts to move online. Even now many are struggling to catch up. However, some leading papers are proving to be very adept and are rolling out advanced Content Management Systems with great SEO tactics.


One favorite strategy is to create highly-targeted pages for particular keywords and promote them heavily with internal links.


This is a technique that just wasn't possible back in the days of HTML because of manpower needed to create so many links. However on a Joomla! site its easy and I'll show you how:

 
May 07 2008
We Launch Our Joomla Training Classes in Atlanta
Alledia News
Written by Steve Burge   
Wednesday, 07 May 2008

Joomla Training AtlantaWe're delighted to announce that our first Joomla training class will be on Saturday June 21st in Alpharetta, Georgia.


The training will be in Alpharetta, just a few miles north of Atlanta from 9 am to 4 pm. We've chosen Roam as the location as it offers high-tech, comfortable meeting rooms equipped with wireless internet access, whiteboards, projectors.


Because this is the first class we aim to make it extra special. We're limiting registration to 10 students and are providing a wide-range of extra gifts.

 
May 05 2008
New Products from a Joomla Lead Developer
Joomla Sites
Written by Steve Burge   
Monday, 05 May 2008

JXtended.comIf you've been around the Joomla or Mambo projects during the last 5 years, you'll have heard of Andrew Eddie. Currently he has the unwieldy title of "Development Working Group Coordinator", but spend any time on the forum and you'll see he's hard at work in many areas of the Joomla project.


Last year we interviewed Andrew about extensions that he was developing. This week he launched his new site JXtended.com and with it over a dozen products.


Apart from making the owner of JExtended.com rich (I mistyped three times when writing this article alone) what can we expect from the new site?

 
May 03 2008
All Alledia Blog Posts Now Creative Commons Licensed
Alledia News
Written by Steve Burge   
Saturday, 03 May 2008

Creative CommonsQuite a lot of people have written asking permission to translate blog posts here on Alledia, so it made sense for me to clarify the license for the articles.


As of today, all Alledia.com blogs posts are now licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.


That means you can copy, translate and mashup any and all blog posts. The only requirement is that you provide a link back to the original article.

 
May 02 2008
Short Cuts for Great Google Rankings
SEO
Written by Steve Burge   
Friday, 02 May 2008

Dancing CowboySometimes you just want a short-cut. Sometimes the idea of slogging away for months to reach your goal just doesn't seem worth the effort. Take the woman on the right. My wife just went to Japan and found this "Dancing Cowboy" machine. Designed for people who want to get fit without effort, you don't have to do anything. Sit there, and the machine will shake like a horse and do the exercise for you.


I'm sure theres a lot of people out there who'd like some SEO shortcuts. From an e-mail I got this week:


"4 months to do SEO seems like a long time to do anything. I mean what takes 4 months?"


Wouldn't it be nice if there you could jump ahead of much older and more established sites? Here are five ways to leverage Google's own features to your advantage:

 
Apr 30 2008
Joomla Events No Longer a Rare Event
Joomla News
Written by Steve Burge   
Wednesday, 30 April 2008

Joomla DayI've been in the Mambo and Joomla world for several years now without going to a Joomla event. Now I'm headed to two within the next six weeks (Chicago and Vancouver) and every time I look at Joomla.org theres a new event announced.


I did some research and in April alone there were Joomla events in Norway, Canada, South Africa, the Netherlands, France and Spain.

 
Apr 25 2008
Joomla Training in Atlanta Starting in June
Alledia News
Written by Steve Burge   
Friday, 25 April 2008

Joomla Training Atlanta We're delighted to announce that we're going to be holding Joomla training sessions in Atlanta, Georgia starting on Saturday June 21st, 2008.


The classes are aimed at people who want to manage and build successful Joomla sites. We'll be giving practical but not highly-technical tuition. Each session will run for a full day and be limited to only 10 students.


If you'd like to be alerted when we start registrations, please sign-up below. We'll be in touch within the next two weeks.

 
Apr 24 2008
Review of the Missing Metadata Module
Product Reviews
Written by Steve Burge   
Thursday, 24 April 2008

Missing Metadata ModuleDan Rahmel's Missing Metadata module has been floating around the "top rated" list on joomla.org for some months. The module was created as an example for Dan's book Beginning Joomla!, but is it useful as more than a coding demonstration?



 
Apr 22 2008
The One Where Steve Goes All Matt Cutts
Alledia News
Written by Steve Burge   
Tuesday, 22 April 2008

Those of you who hate having their picture taken (90% of you? 95%?) will know how I felt. Several people have been asking for photos of me ready for upcoming events. I tried to put if off for as long as possible but today I needed to get it done.


I'll be at the upcoming Joomla events in Chicago and Vancouver, so if you want to say hello, you know what I look like.


As the camera was out, I thought it might be a good idea to introduce to my blogging partner, Ninja. This little guy is rarely far away from the keyboard when I'm working. Especially now spring is here, he loves to come and sun himself in the window overlooking my desk.


 
Apr 18 2008
Five Really Useful Joomla Blog Posts
Recommended Sites
Written by Steve Burge   
Friday, 18 April 2008
Five Really Useful Joomla Blog Posts I write summary posts very rarely, but in the last few weeks I've read several great Joomla-related articles.

Its time to point you towards five really useful Joomla blog posts, one each on the topics of usability, performance, analytics, e-commerce and MySQL.
 
Apr 15 2008
Facts and Figures on the SEO Clubs First 6 Months
SEO Club
Written by Steve Burge   
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Joomla SEO Club Wow - its been six months since we launched our Joomla SEO Club. Back then I promised that one day, when enough time had passed to provide reliable data, we would post a detailed overview of our experience. Today, is that day.
 
Apr 14 2008
A New Alternative to Joomfish on Joomla 1.5
Joomla News
Written by Steve Burge   
Monday, 14 April 2008

Joomfish NookuFor years, there has only been one option if you wanted to build a multilingual Joomla site.


Joom!fish is one of the most popular and widely-used extensions in the Joomlasphere and has a great team behind it, including Joomla core team members Alex Kempkens and Robin Muilwijk. Its recently been updated to work on Joomla 1.5.

 
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