The Read More option in 1.5 RC3

In my previous post I mentioned the fact that the Read More option of Joomla was not editable anymore. Before that I wrote about how-to-solve-the-joomla-read-more-problem in version 1.0.x But I found an item in RC3 in the Advanced Parameters of the article section that makes in possible to do an “Click here to read” text per [...]

Joomla 1.5 RC2 and RC3 The SEO and Other Differences

The Feed Options are now part of the site settings

Looking at the latest Release Candidate of Joomla, version 1.5 RC3 you will find some Differences as it comes to the SEO functions. First off, the difference in Options in RC2 The SEO Settings in Joomla RC3 So what are the results of this settings: With the Suffix Active As you might notice, the last [...]

The New and Improved Joomla DS Feed Syndication Component

If you have read this Blog for a Longer period of time (or have gone through the Sitemap..:-)) you might have read about the DS Syndication Component in my post Overcoming the Joomla RSS Feed Problem Well, there is a new version of this component since August of this year and I must say it [...]

How To Solve the Joomla Read More Problem

I was reading a post from Brain Clark on Copyblogger about the “Click Here problem” and I just had to think about Joomla. You know the famous “Read more” line that comes up if you split your articles into an Introduction and the main part of the Article. Reading some of the results in the [...]

Joomla Dynamic Page Title option for Improving Internal Linking

Use the Joomla Dynamic Page Title Option

So, your are working hard on your Titles and improving them with relevant keywords and making them attractive for users… but do you have the Internal linking also down?  One of the lesser used options on the Joomla SEO Configuration is the option to use Dynamic Page Titles. But using this option can also increase your [...]

Joomla and Missing Metatags

Joomla Missing Metadata

If you are like me, you like to have your Metatags like description and keywords filled with relevant content.. You could have Metatag generators for you website, or overviews of the content with a component like OpenSEF. But what if you don’t use OpenSEF but sh404SEF? In that case you could register and download the [...]

Is Joomla 1.5 RC 1 Ready for Search Engine Optimization?

Joomla SEO Configuration Settings

I have been running a test-site installation of the new Joomla 1.5 RC 1 to see what improvements there have been made for SEF and SEO. There is a difference between SEF and SEO, you can read more about that on  Search Engine Friendly or already Search Engine Optimized but I will not go into that much more here, as [...]