| Free SEO eBook Winner and New Ping Component |
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| Wednesday, 19 September 2007 | |
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On Monday we offered a free copy of our Joomla SEO eBook for the best answer to the following question:
"What's the easiest way to tell Google what's new on your Joomla! site?"
We really had some great answers, including;
However, the winner is Denis Ryabov who is responsible for developing the very useful new Ping Component for Joomla. Its an easy way to ping around 50 blog services to tell them that your blog has been updated. The lack of pinging has long been a weakness in using Joomla for blogging.
I was aiming to talk about his work in this blog post anyway so I'm delighted he's posted here - his component will make it into the next update of the book. Why are RSS Feeds So Important for SEO?There is of course a whole marketing aspect to RSS Feeds because they encourage people to visit your site daily, but there are crucial SEO uses for them.
but there are three reasons why RSS Feeds are better:
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Indexing speed written by Zorro, October 10, 2007 Google is now indexing blog feeds very, very quickly. I've seen blog posts from Alledia.com turn up in the search results inside of an hour. Hi Steve, just to back you up on this one: About 50 minutes ago I posted an article about the built-in SEO features in RC3. After publishing it, I pinged the blog aggregator services with the excellent new ping component that I mentioned here and use regularly. Then, the phone rang, I had a short meeting, then went back to the computer to check up on Google blogsearch, and lo, there it was. They had indexed my article, and below it they said "44 minutes ago". Pretty damn quick I'd say. Kind regards, Zorro Write comment
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RSS feeds have been one of my biggest nightmares with Joomla. Run-Digital didn't work for me because the feeds published with it kept pointing to a restricted area of the website.
Now I use another component but haven't been able to publish full posts (intro + full content). Any ideas, tips or even paid assistance I would be glad to know.
Thanks for the great info!!