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SEO, Joomla! and your Template :: Joomla! Community Magazine ™

Posted by George Sklavounos in Joomla, SEO on August 13th, 2010

Team EaSE Article: SEO, Joomla! and your Template
Many people ask “Is Joomla! good for SEO or not?” and a final answer is: “Yes it is!”. Joomla! is the ideal software with which you can build any website: business, corporate, education, government, portals etc. At the same time it is one of the easiest content management systems to set up, for many reasons, and good for the purpose of better rankings in search engines too.

On-page optimisation

SEO is not just an on-page process. It is an organic process which should start from keyword research (terms and phrases), building a search engine friendly web site and building links. What is most important from these three? All three.

Building a search engine friendly website is very important. As any website, Joomla! needs a good template, robot.txt file, sitemap, SEF URLs and body tags.

Learning how search engines work is a long process, but here are some fast-track guidelines for on-page SEO steps

A Web Page can be considered SEO friendly if it has:

  • meta description (max 150 characters)
  • good architecture
  • link to the home page
  • breadcrumbs
  • category or/and section link
  • title with H1 tag, with keyword or phrase (title tag max 70 characters)
  • subtitles with keywords or phrases
  • great ratio text to code
  • content (article) which is near to the closing head tag
  • unique content
  • proper name of images, with alt attribute and folder name
  • a few instances of keywords and/or phrases in the article (heading, alt, bold, italic)
  • speed and no more then 150 kb
  • low number of CSS and javascript compressed files

Before search engines crawl a website, they will first try to find the .htaccess and robot.txt files.

continue reading the article at: Team EaSE Article: SEO, Joomla! and your Template :: Joomla! Community Magazine ™.

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DJ-Classifieds Search Module – Design-Joomla

Posted by George Sklavounos in Joomla on July 23rd, 2010

Free joomla themes, modules and plugins

Dj-Imageslider is an extension that allows you to easily …

Dj-Imageslider is an extension that allows you to easily …

The DJ-Classifieds component allows you to add text adver…

New , improved version of DJ-Catalog component brings new…

Component allows you to segment products, assigning them …

The DJ-Art Gallery component allows you to add up to sev…

This module display all categories as menu links.

This module displays advertisements in a certain order: l…

CoolIris (formerly PicLens) module for VirtueMart is our …

Search module for DJ-Classifieds component

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Tutorial:Create a Custom 404 Error Page – Joomla Documentation

Posted by George Sklavounos in Joomla on June 15th, 2010

Tutorial:Create a Custom 404 Error Page

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J!OSCARS – Nomination – J and Beyond | An International Joomla(TM) Event – May 30th to June 1st, 2010

Posted by George Sklavounos in Joomla on May 20th, 2010

J!OSCARS – Nomination

2010 sees the launch of the first ever global “Joomla Open Source Creative and Artistic Recognition” awards to be held at the J! and Beyond conference in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Nominations are welcome in all the categories below and from these our International Jury will create a shortlist of finalists.

From this shortlist the event attendees will vote and the winners will be announced on Monday, May 31st 2010 at the J! and Beyond conference.

In addition to the categories below there are two additional “Special Awards”, that will be decided by the Jury, for “Joomla! Innovation of the year” and “Outstanding personal achievement”.

via J!OSCARS – Nomination – J and Beyond | An International Joomla(TM) Event – May 30th to June 1st, 2010.

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Free Joomla Extension – SEO Keyword Factory v1.0.0

Posted by George Sklavounos in Joomla, SEO on April 22nd, 2010

Free Joomla Extension – SEO Keyword Factory v1.0.0

SEO Keyword Factory will allow you to create and maintain a search engine friendly web site by building and saving keyword-rich URLs for a better search engine relevance.

The SEO link is created automatically after the search keywords that brings the visitor on that certain page. Google, Yahoo and Bing are now integrated. In order for the component to function properly, webmasters must enable the System SEO Keyword Factory plugin, which detects the referral from the search engine and will allow to create and maintain a search engine relevant website.

 SEO Keyword Factory

The component comes with a link manager, where all created links are displayed, given the webmaster the possibility to add new links or edit existing ones. When editing, the landing page can be changed, the keywords, number of hits and the publishing state of that certain item. The filter function allows a search after relevant words.

At the component settings, global configuration, the webmaster can set the plugin status and the following parameters:

  • keywords transformation (upper, lower, capital, unchanged),
  • keywords separator,
  • link terminator,
  • number of columns and rows visible per page in the frontend,
  • banned words (if any of this words is found in the search engine keywords, the link will not be generated).

This product is part of our GPL Club. We are offering it now for free download to all site users, according to our terms and conditions. Support for this product is part of the GPL Club and available only to our GPL Club members.

via Free Joomla Extension – SEO Keyword Factory v1.0.0.

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Demo BonckoWall Plugin | Demo | Joomla

Posted by George Sklavounos in Design, Joomla on March 29th, 2010

Demo BonckoWall Plugin

BonckoWall Image Wall 2.0.1 (Plugin) (13.94 kB)
If you like to add Cooliris enbeded wall to your article this is the Plugin for you!!

Just insert {bonckowall}/directory_immagini/{/bonckowall} in your article (content item) and a Cooliris Enbeded Wall Gallery will be created.

Images can be stored in your files system or  Picasa or Flikr.

Demo BonckoWall Plugin

What’s New 2.0

Picasa and Flikr support

via Demo BonckoWall Plugin | Demo | Joomla.

BonckoWall Coolirs Wall Gallery Plugin

Adding cooliris image wall galleries inside your Joomla articles simply writing {bonckowall}/img_dir/{/bonckowall} inside any article and all images files existing in the folder “/img_dir/” or on Picasa or Flickr will be “automagically” presented as an cooliris embed wall images gallery
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joomla realestate modules

Posted by George Sklavounos in Joomla on March 23rd, 2010

Real Estate Property

Order By : ID | File Title | Downloads | Submit Date | Submitter | Author

stuff1.gifModule Search

stuff1.gifModule Select Reference

stuff1.gifModule Sellers

stuff1.gifmod_prop_carrousel

stuff1.gifmod_prop_cat_type.zip

stuff1.gifmod_prop_last.zip

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Definitive Guide for Joomla + VirtueMart + JoomFish Multilanguage Shop

Posted by George Sklavounos in Joomla on March 2nd, 2010

Definitive Guide for Joomla + VirtueMart + JoomFish Multilanguage Shop

If you want to have a multilanguage shop, you need to do several things.

1. You must have version of Joomla! 1.0.12 – download from www.joomla.org
2. You must have installed VirtueMart 1.0.9 – download from www.virtuemart.net
3. You must have installed Joom!Fish 1.7 Stable – download it from www.joomfish.net
[NOTE] – Even Joom!Fish contains bots and module, it is installed at ONCE as a component. Please verify before install that your mambots/system folder has permitions to write in.
4. Install the languages you want to use in your Joomla! – Find all available languages by clicking here.
5. Add the VirtueMart Translations you are going to use in administrator/components/com_virtuemart/languages
6. Configure the languages in Joom!Fish in the standard way. Look at www.joomfish.net if you experience problems.
7. Add your products in the normal way in VirtueMart
8.1. Add to the folder administrator/components/com_joomfish/contentelements/ the files, that you should download by CLICKING HERE. You can upload those files easy with the Joom!Fish Content Element Installer. Get it from here and upload the files one by one and NOT AS ZIP.
8.2.Alternative way is to install the attached file as component. It will self remove itself and the installation will give back an error. Don’t worry, this should be exacly in this way.

Keep in mind that you need to do either 8.1 or 8.2 and not both of them.

9. Open the translation feature of Joom!Fish. Choose, what to translate from the dropdown and start translating the products, manufacturers, whatever.
10. Publish the translations.

That is it.

Edit on 13 January: Updating the thread with new versions and adding the self-adding support component.

* com_vm_joomfish.zip

via Definitive Guide for Joomla + VirtueMart + JoomFish Multilanguage Shop.

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How to include modules in Content & articles for Joomla

Posted by George Sklavounos in Joomla on February 18th, 2010

How to include modules in Content item (for Joomla 1.5.x)

Step 1: Set up the module

Let’s first create a module for use with this example.

  1. Go to “Extensions – Module Manager”. Look for the module “Main Menu”. Check the box besides the title, and choose “Copy” from the menu.
  2. You will see a new module called “Copy of Main Menu” appearing below the original “Main Meu”.
  3. Click on “Copy of Main Menu”. First make sure Enabled is set at ‘Yes’.
  4. Now, for the field “Position”, first take a look at the entire list of the module positions in the pulldown menu. Then choose a new module name and just type it in there. Yes, just manually type it in, since it will not be in the pulldown selection list. This is a combobox that allows you to add new items by typing the new item in the entry field. In this example, I’ve chosen the new module name to be user201 as shown below..
  5. In the field “Menu Assignment”, for Menus, make sure you select “All”:
  6. Save the module.

Step 2: Create the content page

We will now create a content item for containing the module.

  1. Go to Article Manager and create a new article.
  2. In the article, enter the following:
    3. This is a test to include a module inside a content page.

{loadposition user201}
  3. Note that the module name after loadposition has to match the module position you have created in Step 1.
  4. That’s it! Save the article. We’re all set!

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PhotoSlide GK2

Posted by George Sklavounos in api's, Joomla on February 18th, 2010

Welcome to our News Image module demo page for PhotoSlide GK2 Component!
Here you can see some of the examples that you can configure by changing parameters in module.
You will always find in this page the latest module version release. For the other modules available, please select the top links.
For detail information, please read the respective HelpFile, provided on the PhotoSlide GK2 component package.

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