March 5th, 2010 in
SEO |
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The search engine optimization industry has changed over the years. However, the basic principles remained the same. I’ll try to cover here some of the main things you should focus on in order to become and stay strong in the search engine results.
One thing before we start: Understand this is a relative game. You don’t have to reach some absolute goal to rank #1 for a particular keyword. All you need to do is to be ‘better’ than the guy who is on the #1 spot.

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March 3rd, 2010 in
SEO |
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Joomla is a powerful CMS, used by over 20 of the world’s 10,000 most popular websites. With Joomla on your side, you’re more than capable of building the best site around, but what use is a great site if nobody’s going to see it? It’s common knowledge that Joomla lets itself down when it comes to search engine optimization (SEO). Limited and slow, there’s precious little you can do, SEO-wise, in Joomla core.
To boost your unique visitor numbers, get seen on Google, beat the competition and, ultimately, make more money, you’re going to need to fortify Joomla with the right extensions. We explore 15 of the best SEO extensions for Joomla below. All but the last four in this list are completely free, so there’s absolutely no reason not to give them a try.
While free extensions provide a range of lightweight, quick-fixes to annoying SEO problems, commercial solutions tend to offer a comprehensive suite of SEO tools, packaged in a really slick way.
Tips: If you are using Wordpress, please check out our previous article about Wordpress plugins that increase your search engine rankings.
For the best SEO results, it’s vital that your meta descriptions contain text relevant to each page’s contents. Filling in descriptions for every page can be a real chore, which is why many Joomla experts incorporate SEOSimple into every site they build. It automatically uses a chunk of text from the top of each page as its meta description. Downloading and installing this plugin takes no more than 2 minutes, but it could save you hours in the long-run.
Price: Free

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August 17th, 2009 in
SEO,
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Broken link, or dead link is a link that point to an address that is unable to reach. If your blog or website has many broken links, then it may give a very bad impression for your readers and visitors. Furthermore, broken links will also affect your SEO ranking. It is because Google PR will directly affected by the quality of your internal and external links.
In my previous post about Wordpress SEO plugins, i had shared about Broken Link Checker, which is a Wordpress plugin that able to check your articles for broken links. However, if you are not Wordpress users, then you may not able to use this plugin.
So, i am going to share 15 helpful web based broken links checkers that able to use by everyone. These online tools able to check broken links without install any software or plugin.
This Link Checker looks for issues in links, anchors and referenced objects in a Web page, or recursively on a whole Web site.

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July 10th, 2009 in
SEO,
Tools |
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Search Engine Optimization, or SEO is the process of structuring your web page so that search engines can reach, read and index your page in a higher ranking and finally bring more organic traffic to you.
So, who should perform SEO for our websites, the web designers or the bloggers? Obviously, SEO should be done by web designers as well as the bloggers. Why i said so? Web designers should design the page structure so that the page can easily be read and indexed by search engine while the bloggers should make sure the articles contain keywords that can really generate traffic.
As a blogger, you are encouraged to use Wordpress as your blogging platform. Why? Because Wordpress has a lot of awesome plugins for SEO purpose and it is well-structure for SEO purpose.
Today, we are going to look into 15+ Useful Firefox SEO tools and extensions for bloggers. Web designers who run blog may also need these tools.
SEO for Firefox is definitely the most powerful Firefox SEO plugin. This plugin pulls useful marketing data points and integrate into your search results. For example, it pulls the PR, delicious save counts, Technorati links, Alexa rank, WhoIs information and etc. You can selectively turn it on and off by using the icon at Firefox status bar.

SeoQuake is a program that integrated in Firefox so that users can view a large number of search engine parameters on the fly. It consists of SeoToolbar, Seobar, and output of requested parameters on Search Engine Result Pages.

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A good search engine ranking will generates more organic traffic to your site.If you are using Wordpress, don’t worry. Wordpress already did the hard part for you. But, there are some SEO features that aren’t implemented in Wordpress core. You can easily archeive these features by installing plugins.
It is totally up to you that how much plugins you need to install in order to get a better search engine ranking. But try to keep the amount to minimum so that you won’t crash your server. Today, we are going to look into 10 Wordpress plugins that will increase your search engine ranking.
This plugin enables certain modifications to your Wordpress blog to achieve Search Engine Optimization. For example, you can customize your post title, post description and post tags for individual post. Furthermore, this plugin also has features such as auto generates Cononical URLS for your entire Wordpress site and select index/noindex for various archives pages.
This plugin will monitors links in your site and list out links that don’t work or any missing images. The reason why this plugin is essential is because you may write an article and link to www.domain.com. This link may goes down in future and become dead ends for search engine. By using this plugin, you can get notifications immediately and remove these dead ends.
This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. A sitemap will help search engine spiders to crawl your content. The generated sitemap also supported by other search engine such as Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com.
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