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10 Ideas for Really Popular Joomla Articles

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Written by Steve Burge   
Wednesday, 16 September 2009 14:24
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Top Ten Joomla ArticlesSometimes its hard to think of ideas for a blog post, so here are ten topics that will guarantee a really popular Joomla article:

  1. Why Drupal sucks
  2. Why Wordpress sucks
  3. Why Drupal and Wordpress both suck
  4. Why the GPL is great
  5. Why the GPL sucks
  6. Compare rival extensions (the developers are sure to chime in)
  7. Start charging money for a previously free extension
  8. Someone at Joomla.org doesn't think I'm right in everything I say
  9. Someone at Joomla.org didn't answer my email within 5 minutes of me sending it
  10. Write a useful tutorial (wait ... that sounds a little too constructive ...)
Sit back and count your new links and traffic ...
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The Dangers of Bland Text

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Written by Steve Burge   
Tuesday, 09 December 2008 08:40
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The Dangers of Bland TextMy favorite discussion at the CMS Expo was during the basic SEO class. We ended up talking about bland, happy talk on websites:


"We provide first-class widgets to satisfied clients", "We offer premier widget solutions to our clients" and other such meaningless, corporate text.


People came up with some great examples and we saw that webdesign companies are the often the biggest offenders:

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1 Great Post Beats 100 Mediocre Posts

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Written by Steve Burge   
Monday, 04 August 2008 18:06
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topblogposts.pngYou may have noticed that I've been blogging less lately. There's probably a dozen reasons for that (family visiting from England, new projects, running the SEO Club, the hot summer making my brain tired) but theres been one stand-out ... I just haven't come across many things I really, really had to post.

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Controversial Joomla Blog Posts

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Written by Steve Burge   
Wednesday, 05 December 2007 09:34
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Controversial Joomla Blog PostsIn the last few days a particularly controversial blog post has made some people in the Joomla world angry. On the OpenJason.com blog, there was an article reviewing various Joomla template clubs. It made comments about some template designers that included phrases such as:

  • "Piss poor quality"
  • "If I wanted to get kicked in the nuts, I'd go to these guys"
  • "I can't even muster up a .5 rating for these idiots. The templates suck"
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