April 22nd, 2010 in
Review |
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Have you ever worked with any Flash CMS? Personally I have not… till now. I’m very well familiar with Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, even worked with Magento, but Flash content management systems seemed quite obscure and frustrating for me. All these suspicions might have been caused by difficulties working with Flash and updating Flash websites or by Flash myths regarding search engine optimization. Whatever the case, all these fears are left in the past after trying Flash content management system from FlashMoto.
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April 6th, 2010 in
SEO |
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“This may come as a surprise but there are people out there who don’t know that you exist. [Drupal] SEO is a powerful and inexpensive way to get your name out there and build some credibility with your target customers.” – Ben Finklea, CEO of Volacci & author of Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization
The fact that you are reading this right now means that you are most likely a Drupal user, strongly considering Drupal as your CMS of choice, and/or have a website that needs a serious boost in the traffic department.
You probably know that your target customers are not going to stumble on your article, or your product, or your site if you are listed on page 23 of a Google search for whatever you are trying to sell. You want to make sure that your search rankings are under your control as much as possible, instead of allowing the rankings to wrangle you.
Fortunately, Drupal users have a secret weapon – Drupal itself!
Here are some helpful Drupal SEO tips to put into practice – and if you know all of this already – well, practice makes perfect!
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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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November 1st, 2009 in
Wordpress |
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If you are using Wordpress as a CMS, then you probably want to present your content with multiple languages. Recently, I came across a Wordpress blog that presents their content with three different languages, so I decided to investigate the methods and plugins to turn Wordpress into a multilingual website, and share my findings with WDB’s readers.
Maintaining a multilingual website is not easy. The best way to present multilingual content to your visitors is to allow them to switch between different languages anytime. So, the plugin needs to take care of this and links different languages’ content together.
Beside linking the content, the URL of the translated content also important. There are two different ways to present your URL:
- You can have the same permalink for the translated content, and add a language flag at the end of the URL (ex: www.domain.com/multi-language-article/?lang=en, www.domain.com/multi-language-article/?lang=es, www.domain.com/multi-language-article/?lang=zh).
- The translated content will have absolutely different URL.
So, how to choose your URL is yet another main consideration before you launch the multilingual website? In SEO point of view, having an absolutely different URL will gain better advantages Later on, we are going to look into 5 different plugins to manage your multilingual Wordpress website. These plugins have their pros and cons, so choosing the best plugin that suit your needs in the most important.
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August 3rd, 2009 in
Contests |
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We just end our first giveaway contest, which was sponsored by Yooba. We are giving away 25 prizes but there are only 14 participants. So, all of them are winners and Yooba will contact them individually and give the promotion code to them.
Again, thanks Yooba for sponsoring this contest and i hope the winners enjoy using Yooba. If you don’t want to miss any contest/giveaway, make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us in Twitter.
July 20th, 2009 in
Contests |
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Yooba is a web based Content Management System specially designed for Flash content. As a Software as a Service it’s scalable, and can be packaged to your requirements. As with a conventional CMS, Yooba enables easy and fast creation, publication and administration of content for web pages, without any programming knowledge.
From an individual creative’s perspective you can work with creation of templates and content, and then deliver manageable Flash objects for your clients. This way a designer with no Flash experience can be part of the Flash content lifecycle, where Yooba would serve as a great resource.
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June 30th, 2009 in
PHP,
Resources |
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Content Management System, or CMS is an application used to manage news easily so that users can publish, edit and delete articles from the back-end admin system. HTML and other scripting language are not necessary to operate a CMS, though having them will add more advantages.
Since we had looked into 22 open source PHP frameworks, i decided to do a roundup of 20 Open Source PHP Content Management Systems so that readers who don’t have strong PHP knowledge can easily create their website using free and open source CMS.
Wordpress is a powerful yet easy to use content management system. Initially it was designed as a blogging platform. However, it slowly become popular and can be customized into a powerful CMS with some tricks and plugins. I had wrote an article about Wordpress SEO plugins and also talked about things that you should know about Wordpress 2.8.
Drupal is a free and open source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP. It is used as a back-end system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites.
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