Do you know if your site is Down?

Configuration of Domain check

If you run a site, you will at some point in time encounter a site outage. That is not only with a Joomla site, it can also happen with WordPress or Drupal or any other Content Management System. I am now talking about the fact that a complete server is down or that the Internet Connection [...]

Joomla Basics 60 percent of Top 5 Negative Ranking Factors

Joomla in its standard installation has some options set that might give you negative ranking factors, read more on how to prevent this by some simple changes to your configuration.

The Little Joomla SEO Book now also in Russian

I just received an email telling me that “The Little Joomla SEO Book” just has been translated into Russian… Now that is what I like about the Internet and sharing Knowledge, so that people can help each other, even in other languages. If you are Russian, you can go to Russian version of this book [...]

The Forgotten Joomla SEF Component

Remosef Options

Joomla SEF Components I was looking at one of my clients Mambo based website, to see what it would take to move it to Joomla. Main reason for this was that the Administrator Interface of version 4.5.x breaks the menu in Internet Explorer 7. One of the Components I used on this site was Remosef, [...]

Using your Search Engine Results to Improve your site

Joomla SE Search Strings

You are always looking at your statistics, to see how people are coming to your website, right? You know you should… But here is another way of looking at your website and what people are looking for on your site. You have of course the Global Configuration statistics for Text Search set to on. And [...]

Optimize your Joomla website from the Back-end

If you want your Joomla website to run as smooth as you can, you have to optimize your MySQL tables at some point. If you work with your PHP Admin software, you now how time consuming this can be, although you can have some scripts made up to do this maintenance task more easily. But [...]

Simple things to do on Your Joomla site to avoid basic Duplicate Content

I was reading a Post on Pandia on Duplicate Content on then I realised there are some basic settings in a standard Joomla Installation that create Duplicate Content. As you look at your standard installation, you will see three icons on every page: – a PDF Icon to Create a version of the page in PDF [...]