Welcome to Alledia - the Joomla SEO Experts

One of the best things about running a blog is the opportunity to read comments posted by people who are smarter and more experienced in many areas.

Today, I'm going to dig back into the Alledia archives and pull up and some great tips and tricks posted by readers. 

How to Reset a Lost SuperAdmin Password

Zorro from www.nitsche.org points out that Joomla 1.0.13 has changed password handling and added a SALT (encryption) to the password field. So if you have lost your superadministrator password, you need to run a new database query to recover it:

UPDATE `jos_users` SET `name` = 'admin', `password` = 'af9083d4b82dbc0745b124db3b3cf15d:M0WuLowO4rtRTddG' WHERE `id` =62 LIMIT 1 ;

Removing Joomla's Dynamic URLs from Search Results

Often when running Joomla's SEF URLs you'll find that dynamic URLs still manage to get indexed and create duplicate content. We've discussed several ways of dealing with this using Yahoo's Site Explorer and Joomla's robots.txt file, but Trichosis (no URL given) came up with a very elegant solution. Simply add this to your robots.txt:

disallow: /*?*

Using Your Joomla Sections and Categories to Improve SEO

Barrie from www.compassdesigns.net responded to our post about getting Page Rank flowing through your Joomla site by posting links to these two great articles:

• http://www.se...com/orbidex/2002/0222_orb1.html
• http://www.we...erworld.com/forum10003/3060.htm

Using SIFR (Funky Fonts) On Your Joomla Site

In response to our post about using the SIFR technique to add non-web safe fonts to your Joomla site, Brian from www.uklinux.net pointed out a website where anyone can generate SIFR files without needing to dowload any software: http://ianpurton.com/sifr/

Improving Search on Your Joomla Site

Zorro (again) from www.nitsche.org demonstrated how to make your Joomla site search more useful. Instead of searching for any of the terms in a query, it searches for all of the terms:

In /components/com_search/search.html.php:

Find line 126, replace 'any' with 'all'.
Find line 215, replace 'any' with 'all'.

Also, in /components/com_search/search.php:

Find line 102, replace 'any' with 'all'. 

There's also a post on Joomla.org showing how to set "exact match" as the default. We're using that hack on Alledia.com because it seems to bring the most useful results.

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Intro Text Limit
written by Anthony, August 26, 2007

Thanks for this round up ...

You should add your own hack for limiting intro text ... its very handy

password
written by Gdget, September 17, 2007

This is your pass: 'af9083d4b82dbc0745b124db3b3cf15d:M0WuLowO4rtRTddG' ?
Or we need to MD5 or SHA on it before we update it ?
If we set it to NULL is ok ?

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written by steve, September 17, 2007

Hi Gdget

Your password will be "admin"

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written by ACER, July 05, 2008

We've discussed several ways of dealing with this using Yahoo's Site Explorer and Joomla's robots.txt file, but Trichosis (no URL given) came up with a very elegant solution.

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written by pay per click management, October 03, 2008

I want a customized Joomla search in my online shopping website. I might use the above given code for this purpose but I still need to ask, if there is any other tool to implement a customized search apart from Google CSE.

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written by Essay, October 09, 2008

Thanks a lot for this round up. I'm planning to switch over to Jhoomla shortly and this should serve as a good base for it.!

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