Archive for June, 2007

Joomla seo tip: Don’t ever change your url’s!

Published on June 17, 2007 in Joomla! and SEO Tips. 1 Comment

Since I have a bit of lazy days this summer, I am going to give you a few hints and tips regarding SEO’ing in general, and some of the details surrounding SEO for Joomla.

Today I am going to talk about something I see many people fail to do right, and that makes them go straight to the bottom of the search results. Again and again and again.

The problem of changing url’s is especially common amongst us that uses a content management system like Joomla to control our content.

The reason changing url’s makes it impossible to rank well for a site, is the fact that the complete structure of the site is made up by those url’s. The crawlers of the search engines are following those url’s, and if they keep being different, the pages will never get any Page Rank, and therefore they will never rank in the serps eighter.

What can be done then, you might ask?

If you are using Joomla, you NEED to get hold of any of the components for SEF-urls. I have used both OpenSEF, JoomSEF and Sef Advance, and my recommendation is different depending on what other components you are using.

If you are going to run a web store with VirtueMart on your site, I would go for JoomSEF with their commercial add-on for VirtueMart. It works wonders for getting rid of the ItemID problem that is plaguing Joomla.

If you will not use any third party components, Sef Advance is my first choice. It does not slow down your site at all (almost), and keeps the url’s completely stable even when you do upgrades of the core system.

OpenSEF is hard to recommend right now. It is still not out of beta, and it slows down your site heavily. Untill they have sorted out the speed problems, and have also gotten rid of the tendency of changing the produced url’s I can not recommend using the component.

What is your opinion?

Testing out Submit Edge for directory submission

Published on June 2, 2007 in Link Building and Search Engine Marketing. 2 Comments

Up until now we have done more or less everything ourselves when it comes to building links for our sites and our client’s sites as well.

So, when we (Devenia that is), decided to test one of the directory submission services around, we landed on Submit Edge. We are currently testing their “submit to 600 directories” package, and it will be really interesting to see the results over the next few months.

Using a service like this really is a big time saver, because finding and submitting to directories manually is really, really tedious.

What is your experience with manual directory submission services like the one Submit Edge is providing? Do they submit to the number of directories they promise?