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How To Create A Home Page Title Tag For Joomla Sites 2008-05-13 07:30:20 Joomla SEO Tip - Home Page Title
In 2 Mins
Your home page title tag is one of the most important title tags on your site. By default, Joomla displays the site name you specify in the config which isn’t that Google friendly, because it’s good to get your important keywords in your home page title.
How [...] Read more:Joomla
, Sites
Good Page Titles & Clean URLs in Joomla 2008-05-13 06:30:35 OK so you have a Joomla
site, your server has got .Htaccess support, you have turned on Search Engine Friendly URLS (SEF) and you’ve successfully installed and activated sh404sef so you can start automatically converting dynamically generated urls into something that is more ‘readable’.
Now your Joomla site produces nice clean url names that humans and [...] Read more:Titles
, Clean
Make Joomla URLS SEO Friendly | Joomla SEO Tips 2008-05-12 06:27:26 sh404SEF is one of the best JoomlaSEO
plugins I have used. Make Joomla SEO friendly with this easy to install and use plugin. It’s simple to setup if you are familiar with Joomla, htaccess, and have a basic knowledge of seo.
With this component, it’s easy to activate SEF URLS, although you do need to [...] Read more:Friendly
Joomla SEO Made Easy With The sh404SEF Component 2008-05-12 06:27:01 Joomla sh404SEF Component
The sh404SEF Plugin makes Joomla SEO
easy. I’ll be posting some simple Joomla seo tips to make Joomla sites work better in Google.
First up - download and install the Joomla sh404SEF Plugin (or rather ‘Component’) by siliana.com.
You can read what others say about this plugin on the Joomla forum, and the instructions [...] Read more:Joomla
Joomla Search Engine Friendly URLS (SEF) 2008-05-12 06:26:17 Joomla is a fantastic content management system that allows you to do, well, just about anything with your website - that’s why it is one of our CMS of choice for new clients. But when you install Joomla, search engine friendly URLs are not on by default, you need to configure it.
Joomla SearchEngineFriendly
[...] Read more:Joomla
Joomla SEO Week > 1 Week Of Joomla SEO Tips 2008-05-12 06:25:43 Joomla SEO
Tips
Joomla is one of the best open source content management systems in the world - and it’s free. We design and develop Joomla websites for all types of organisations, so I thought it was about time we had some Joomla seo tutorials on the Hobo blog.
As with most CMS, Joomla out of the [...] Read more:Joomla
Microsoft Not Buying Yahoo! Microsoft Pulls Out Of Takeover 2008-05-04 07:42:54 Microsoft Yahoo
Deal - No Takeover
Microsoft appears to be throwing in the towel with regards to the hostile takeover of Yahoo. In a public email transmitted to CNN and picked up by Search Engine Land too, Steve Balmer of Microsoft sent Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang the following message, ending the attempt by Microsoft to buy [...] Read more:Microsoft
, Buying
Google Page Rank - PR Update - Tue 29 April 2008 2008-04-29 12:54:59 Google Page Rank Update
- Tue 29 April
2008
We’re getting reports of a Google Page Rank update today, Tue 29 April 2008, happening across certain data centers.
It’s clear it’s not complete, and it’s worth pointing out Google Toolbar PR Green you see in the update is out of date and not an accurate measurement of [...] Read more:Google
, Google Page Rank
Welcome Our 100,000 Visitor! 2008-04-25 15:33:33 Yup, since January 01 2008 the Hobo site has been visited by no less than 100,000 unique visitors, from all over the world. For a small business that’s no mean feat considering we have never spent one penny in traditional advertising. We’ve not bought one link, even from Yahoo (although I might one day).
All we [...] Read more:Welcome
, Visitor
13 Things To Discuss To Keep A Web Design Client Happy 2008-04-25 14:22:37 If you’re aiming to agree a fixed price for the development of the website, as we do, ensure the project goes smoothly before you start, by communicating with your client at the outset.
They’ll appreciate you for it, there will be less surprises, and you may be able to start making a profit from fixed cost [...] Read more:Client
, Happy
, Web Design
18 Things To Blog About For Amnesty Tomorrow | Bloggers Unite 2008-05-14 09:43:26 Remember tomorrow is Bloggers Unite Day For Human Rights, and this year it is Amnesty
International we’re spamming promoting in search engines and blog engines.
You can blog about anything to do with Human Rights;
While the words might change from country to country and are sometimes taken for granted, human rights represent one of [...]
Insert H1 Tags In Joomla | Joomla SEO Tips 2008-05-14 06:30:24 Insert H1 Tags In Joomla
There’s no factual based evidence that I know of (that springs to mind) that conclusively proves H1 headings on pages, or even H1-H6 headings have any benefits to high ranking in Google.
However, it is semantically correct to have one H1 on your page, the W3C says so. That’s why I like [...] Read more:SEO
10 Free Blog Directories Worth Submitting Your Blog To 2008-05-13 17:37:41 - I thought I would take a short break from Joomla Week and thought it would be neat to list 10 free blog directories worth submitting your site to (in my opinion) - for traffic, better Google listings or reputation management.
Note I’ve picked blog directories that feature in Google, with a decent PR, and [...] Read more:Directories
, Worth
, Free Blog
20 Reasons China Is Not Olympian 2008-05-15 13:50:05 When China
made its bid for the 2008 Olympics, government authorities promised improvements in human rights. Seven years on, China remains a country that executes, tortures and silences its citizens. Amnesty International on Human Rights In China.
China’s Human Rights Shame
Have the Chinese authorities reduced the number of crimes punishable by the death penalty? No
Have the [...] Read more:Reasons
, Olympian
7 Joomla SEO Tips | The Idiots Guide 2008-05-18 17:58:48 So Joomla
week ends on the Hobo blog, and we’ve created a beginners guide to Joomla SEO
.
If you’re creating a Joomla site, apart from creating useful content, intelligent website structure and getting links to your site with your primary keywords in them, consider these 7 on-page / on-site seo tips for Joomla;
Turn On Joomla Search [...] Read more:Idiots
, Guide
Prevent Joomla Duplicate Content Problems 2008-05-18 17:50:35 Joomla DuplicateContent
Issue
Joomla, like most if not all content management systems, creates duplicate content management issues. The sh404sef plugin alleviates some of these issues, but not all.
A primary source of duplicate content woe in Joomla is when you publish the PDF and Print icons on pages. You see Google will index the page the [...] Read more:Joomla
Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments 2008-05-20 20:15:27 Why You Should Nofollow
Your Blog Comments
?
Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?
Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?
Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?
This is an experiment……
Post from Hobo SEO Company Scotland
Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments
Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments? 2008-05-20 17:38:20 Andy Beard & Dave Naylor wrote interesting posts (see what I did there) about blog comments and specifically whether or not you should nofollow blog comments in an attempt to build a site that Google trusts and therefore allows to rank for competitive terms
We used to be a dofollow blog. Now we remove [...] Read more:Nofollow
, Comments
8 Great SEO Group Interviews 2008-05-25 20:45:21 I thought it would be cool to track some of the better group seo interviews on the web. It’s useful to check out what experienced seo think of different seo techniques and factors - and where disagreement lies and why!
Search Engine Ranking Factors - 35 SEO
Experts share their views
Link Development - 11 SEO Experts [...] Read more:Great
, Group
, Interviews
Add PageEar PagePeel Banner To Wordpress Blog 2008-05-29 14:46:57 I hate unexpected pop-up windows. So recently when a client wanted some sort of pop up on their site to highlight a product, after discussing options and my views, we decided to trial the free Pageear PagePeel Banner
, a slick sort of pop up window plugin that opens when your visitor hovers over the ‘peel’ [...] Read more:Wordpress
John Cardno - Scam Tickets For Music Festivals? 2008-05-31 23:56:02 Hmmmm…. it’s kinda hard to stay on the sidelines here…. I’ve got problems with people replying to a post about T In The Park, whilst monitoring logs which show people are actually checking up on this guy - John Cardno, and asking if he is a scam. “Don’t Trust John Cardno”. That’s an example.
Is John [...] Read more:Tickets
, Music
‘What’s The Best?’ - Web Design & SEO 2008-06-11 20:50:26 The irony of obsessively searching for what’s the best way to do something often leads to the same conclusion;
What Is the best SEO
Tactic for websites?
There is none.
What’s the best font size to use designing websites?
There is none
What is the best cms?
There isn’t one
What is the best colour combination for websites?
There isn’t one
What is the [...] Read more:Web Design
No Such Thing as Advanced White Hat SEO? 2008-06-11 18:21:10 Quadzilla (who I look forward to meeting at SEO
Class Scotland) has boldly published his views on the whole SMX / Black Hat Conference thing going on in the states as reported by Search Engine Land and I think kicked off by Lisa Barone highlighting the ‘fact’ SMX featured questionable seo tactics, not advanced white [...] Read more:Thing
, White
Hobo at SEOClass 2008 > SEO Training in Edinburgh, Scotland 2008-06-15 18:00:57 SEO Class Edinburgh
, Scotland
Monday, June 23, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
I will be presenting a seo workshop at the two-day session SEO Class Edinburgh, now run by Jim Boykin’s We Build Pages and Internet Marketing Ninjas. Guaranteed, if you’re looking to attend the best seo training classes in Scotland this year, this will be it.
In [...] Read more:SEO
, Training
Should You Bother With The Robots Meta Tag? 2008-07-04 10:50:08 TIP 4OK - So we’ve talked about the Title Element, the Meta Description Tag and the pointless (IMO) Meta Keywords tag.
The only other Meta Tag I am interested in, generally, is when I am trying to control which pages (at a page level) are indexed, or which external links are to be counted by Google [...]
Create The Perfect Meta Description For Google (& Searchers) 2008-07-02 18:30:37 TIP 3Like the title element and unlike the meta keywords tag, this one is important, both from a human and search engine perspective.
<meta name="Description" content="Get your site on the first page of Google
,
Yahoo and MSN too, using simple search engine optimisation.
Call us on 0845 094 0839. A company based in Scotland." />
Forget whether or not [...] Read more:Perfect
, Searchers
What’s The Best Keyword Meta Tags Formula? 2008-07-02 13:33:55 TIP 2Ahh, a bastian of crap and unethical seo companies - the meta-keywords tag! How many crap seo companies mention cleaning and optimising this tag in their presentations? Companies that waste time on these waste clients money.
<meta name="Keyword
s" content="seo, search engine optimisation, optimization" /
I have one piece of advice with the meta keyword tag, which [...] Read more:Formula
What Is The Perfect Title Tag For Google? 2008-07-01 17:08:30 TIP 1I’m keeping these 1 A Day SEO Tips in July quick and simple - and again, this is just my preference, backed up with observations I’ve made over the last few years I’ve been learning / practicing seo. This is the stuff people ask me - What Is The PerfectTitle
Tag For Google
?
<title>The [...]
Onsite SEO Tip Per Day 2008-07-01 08:03:25 I thought it would be cool to post an on-site seo tip a day over the course of July, so the first one will be posted later today, with a new one posted every day after until the end of July.
Of course, there’s no one best way to optimise a website, but I thought I [...] Read more:SEO
SEO Class Edinburgh 2008 Closes 2008-06-26 16:44:08 I’m just now getting back into the swing of things after a fantastic 3 days spent at EdinburghSEO
Class 2008 with Jim Boykin, Chuck and Matt from US internet marketing firm We Build Pages and some Internet Marketing Ninjas.
I thoroughly enjoyed the get-together, although truth being told I was terrified at the prospect [...]
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