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    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • Why does Google hate Jamboworks.com?

      I have no clue why we do not show up in standard google search results for "joomla templates". We do show up with the adsense banners, but why we don't show up in the regular search results is beyond me.

      Does anyone have any knowledge as to why our SEO is so lousy???

      If anyone can find a way to get jamboworks.com onto page 1 i'll give them 1 year of access free. If they can get us to #1 spot i'll give you $200 cash too!
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    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • First change "Premiere Joomla/Mambo Template Club Professional quality designs."
      to "Premiere Mambo and Joomla Template Club. Professional quality designs. New Joomla Templates every month".

      Add 'Joomla Templates' to the keywords.

      Mention 'Joomla Templates' on the homepage. Currently plenty of 'Joomlas' and a few 'Templates' but no 'Joomla Templates'.

      Try Googling for 'Joomla Training'. You are near the top. Do the same for 'Joomla Templates'.

      You'll be pushed to get first position with www.joomla-templates.com around.
      How about $100 for second place ? ;D

      Steve
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    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • Not only Jamboworks.com but more sites with your (absolutely great) templates are invisible for Google. I'm glad you did find out yourself. I have about 10 mambo/joomla sites and only the sites with your templates have an Google problem. Think think!!
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    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • I really don't think it's even possible for it to be a template issue. Quite likely it's caused by content, meta tags, urls etc. Already got a couple of folks sending me some good information so i'll be going through it and evaluating what I'm missing. Keep up the ideas!
      Dick Schaap wrote:
      Not only Jamboworks.com but more sites with your (absolutely great) templates are invisible for Google. I'm glad you did find out yourself. I have about 10 mambo/joomla sites and only the sites with your templates have an Google problem. Think think!!
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    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • Everything looks fine to me. If I search for "Joomla Templates" (with quotes), jamboworks.com is the 3rd link on the right under "Sponsored Links". If i just search for "Joomla", you're the 4th link.
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    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • Since i installed sf_advance in my site and start to have some litlle extra work putting tags in all content items my site jumped to googles 1st page and 1º in msn.com for the keyword i need.

      External links from wigh pagerank is a good thing also, try to put your site in all joomla directories/top sites, and always put a link to your site wen writing in foruns, comments, etc.

      its hard to understand SE, especially google, in my case i have shitty sites in top of me just because they are hosted in geocities, lycos, and a regional portal. google almost doesnt see the diference bettwen geocites.com and geocities.com/mysmallshittyesite

      hope it helps..
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    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • I think Steve is right on the money. I was going to say the same thing (I have a slow trigger ;D ). I too think the slash is causing a problem in the title. I know google ranks pages higher that have meta titles and page titles that agree with each other. I know I've personally bumped my site up a few ranks by doing this.
      Steve Fletcher wrote:
      First change "Premiere Joomla/Mambo Template Club Professional quality designs."
      to "Premiere Mambo and Joomla Template Club. Professional quality designs. New Joomla Templates every month".

      Add 'Joomla Templates' to the keywords.

      Mention 'Joomla Templates' on the homepage. Currently plenty of 'Joomlas' and a few 'Templates' but no 'Joomla Templates'.

      Try Googling for 'Joomla Training'. You are near the top. Do the same for 'Joomla Templates'.

      You'll be pushed to get first position with www.joomla-templates.com around.
      How about $100 for second place ? ;D

      Steve
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    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • Dear Andy,

      Please apply these moves. Remember, there is no one answer, its many, many factos working on a cohesive manner.

      You have a challenge, you design for the consumer base, but you need to address SEO + SEM points.

      Meta Tags
      1) Your title needs to address the appropriate key words you prefer. ( Bad title)
      2) Witihin you Meta Tags, your keywords focus more on Mambo, than Joomla. Add more. (No exclamation points)
      3) I became your customer from the MamboDev.com days. Please ask your existing customer base to change their footer notes that read http://www.mambodev.com  (Example: www.centrodeportivo.com ) You will be surprise how this will assist your backlinlk and that new link write: "Jambo Works Joomla Templates"
      4) As mentioned above, this is not a template issue. You lack the fundamentals of SEO SEM
      5) Place your web site at directory www.dmoz.org - This should eventually get you into Google's Directory
      6) Your Post - Go back to your entries and fill in the descriptions and keywords.
      7) REMOVE THIS FROM YOUR Meta and replace <meta name="title" content="Frontpage" />)
      8) Look at your description = use PLURAL TERMS whenever possible

      <meta name="description" content="High-quality custom Joomla!/Mambo templates,
      the premier Mambo Template Club, training, professional development services and products." />

      9) Keywords - From point #2 - Mucho Mambo - *** Nobodys searches Joomla with exclamation point, Remove "!"

      <meta name="keywords" content="jamboworks, Joomla!, joomla, mambodev.com, template club, templates, template, mambo templates, custom mambo templates, custom mambo components, custom mambo modules, free mambo templates, mambo demo, templates demo, mambo skins, free download, mambo addons, download templates, portal, forum, weblinks, tips, tricks, help, PHP, MySQL, web development, graphic design, mambo, mambo open source, Mambo, Mambo Open Source, CMS, cms, MOS, mos, downloads, files, templates, news, modules, training, mambo training, joomla training, online training, developer training, user training" />

      10) Slash in title does not help us the visitors, not to mention ithas no value from search perspective. OUT.
      11) Open the Syndication Module on all pages.
      12) Every page should have a different title. Never repeat your title or meta tags.
      13) Focus on forum to assist your optimization.

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    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • I agree with the 'title' and 'meta' suggestions above (they were the 1st places I checked).
      So take out the forward-slashs '/' they are probably causing the confusion.
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    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • Isn't there an issue with Joomla! and SEO retruning 404 errors?
      :'(

      forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,28301.0.html
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