I just finished my book on Joomla 1.5 SEO.

Here is the editors review from Amazon:

This is a practical, hands-on book that will lead you through the process of search engine optimization of your Joomla!-based web site.
It provides clear instructions and detailed screenshots, so you can see exactly what to do at each step in the SEO process. Once you have finished reading the book and gone through the detailed plans from each chapter, you will have the knowledge to improve the rankings and visitor numbers of almost any Joomla!-based web site.

This book is written for anyone using Joomla! ranging from owners of business sites to web site developers and personal web site owners. Any Joomla! web site owner who wants to sell products or services, or send out a message to the world will find that getting better rankings in the search engines will help them reach their goal.

Some prior knowledge of Joomla! is expected but no prior knowledge of search engine optimization is needed for this book. The reader will get a deeper level of knowledge on how to make their web site rank better and attract more visitors to their site.

I could not have written this description any better than they did.

But what's in it for you?

Here are some pointers:

What you will learn from this book

• Set up your SEO and Keyword strategy
• Develop and implement a plan to improve the ranking of your web site
• Organize your content in a search engine-friendly and user-friendly way
• Get more SEO improvement possibilities with an SEF patch
• Impress the search engines and your visitors by writing titles and articles
• Set up a Joomla! blog and run its RSS feed using Google's FeedBurner service
• Install and use sh404SEF, an SEF component to improve your URLs
• Pick a good SEO template for speed and SEO techniques
• Speed up your site with better images and cache settings
• Monitor visitors and keep a track of the visits to your site using Statcounter stats and Google Analytics

Still not convinced, read a sample chapter here:
Joomla Blogging and RSS Feeds

Want more? well... You can buy it from Packt publishing or via Amazon.com Joomla! 1.5 SEO

I recently switched over to a new Hosting Company after having some issues with an upgrade the old provider did on their platform. Along with this switch I want to do some testing to see how certain changes will work out.

Changing Hosting Company

One of the changes is the change of hosting company, going from a Dutch based server to a USA based server.
It should provide some more traffic from the US if the geotargetting function of Google and Yahoo / Bing takes the IP address of the server into account.
The new platform is also faster then the old provider was...

Changing URLs / Domain

The second change was a change in domain name. I went from wordpress-cms-hummerbie.com to http://wpsitebuilding.com where the old url has a 301 redirect (permantly moved) to the new domain.

Changing WordPress Theme

The third change is the change of the WordPress Theme to the Excutive Blog Theme by StudioPress which is a new theme that has also by search engine optimized by Joost de Valk from www.yoast.com.

In the screenschot below you can see how this theme works out on my new site.

I will post here in a few weeks to tell you if the expected results are indeed working for Building a Website with WordPress. In the mean time go check out the site!

I just setup a website with the AutoCashSystem to see if this is really functioning the way it is promoted.

I must admit the the way you set-up a website with this product is really very easy.
Within minutes I create a website about How to Make Money with Photograpy and I just had to fill in some contact details and I just chanced the Default Title of the site to something more suitable... wicht some help ove another program I use.

Here is the system promotion, just click it to read and listen to the salespage and learn from it!



In the next weeks I will get more email and will try to follow up to see if the program lives up to its promise. Stay Tuned.

I am on leave now and there is one site I build that nees some extra attention so that is what I am working on the next few weeks.

I have alsso another site that I use as an SEO case Study project, both are build with Joomla 1.5.

There is the first one I mentioned that it really geared towards Active Vacations and Vacations Activities.

The other one is set up for Landscape Gardening and Garden Design in California.

Lets see how they improve over the nest few weeks and if I can get some more visitors to these site. A challenge that will keep me active in thsi Holiday Break...