Google AdSense is a Google application that allows website owners to earn revenue from visitors to their website. It’s those “Ads by Google” links you see on this blog page below this post, and on the right hand column. It’s a great way to earn a little extra income if you have a busy website. This blog describes how to add Google AdSense inside a content page on your Joomla website.
We’ve finished developing an integration between the popular AEC Subscription Manager for the Joomla content management system and the cutting edge Interspire Email Marketer. Using AEC’s Micro Integrations we have developed the process for when a user joins a subscription plan they are added to a contact list of choice and when they expire are removed from the contact list. With this integration it now means one of the most popular and feature rich newsletter systems can be used in a fully automated way with the leading Joomla content management system’s AEC Subscription component.
By default Joomla’s robots.txt file includes a line to disallow search engines indexing your images folder. This means the images on your Joomla site will not be indexed in Google and other search engines Images results. Here’s how to allow images to be indexed.
Joomla 1.5 supports exporting your section or category listing page as a RSS Feed right out of the box. So if you have a menu item linking to your latest news category for example, you can export this as a RSS Feed for others to add to their RSS Readers. The benefit is of course those readers will read your news updates without having to visit your site.
Just after publishing my latest blog, Integrating Joomla and Zencart (Sort Of) Using CURL and Standalone Templates, I realised that this method can be used to show Joomla modules on just about any website that you can add code to. The blog is mainly about Zencart because that’s what I use it for, but I realised if you have any other website you can access the code for, then you can follow these instructions to add Joomla modules to your website.
I’ve developed quite a few Joomla and Zencart sites, some clients taking both together for their website. Joomla being great for the website CMS, and Zencart great for the shopping cart. The problem is, no complete, working integration exists between them. None that I have found anyway. A couple have been written and are work in progress in my mind, but still lacking in fundamental functionality. So the website ends up clearly as two separate systems to the website visitor which is not ideal. So I have spent some time trying to think of a way to integrate the two together and have come up with what looks to be a good solution… CURL.
This blog explains how to set this up in order to show Zencart within your website design. You will need knowledge of PHP, CURL and creating and assigning templates in Joomla and Zencart. Note: this is not integrating the Admin but the front end, to give the impression to the visitor that they are on the same website!
Actually, you don’t even have to use Zencart. It can be any other separate system to your Joomla website that you can change the template for. So you can use this method to add any Joomla module onto any other non-Joomla website. Read more…
In a previous blog I mentioned that your page title (Browser Title or Title Tag) is one of the most important aspects to rank your website for keyword searches. For example, “About Affinity Web Solutions, Web Design in Caerphilly” is better than “About Us” because it not only shows the search engine reader the company name but additional keywords which is important for ranking (see previous blog about 10 basic search optimisation techniques to improve your website rankings).
The problem with Joomla 1.5 is the form to set this title different to what the actual page is called is hidden away in the depths of the Menu Manager, and not in the page editor itself. This blog gives an overview of how to set the page title different to the page name in Joomla 1.5.
I am big fan of the Joomla Content Management System. I must have developed over 50 websites using Joomla over the past few years. With so many advantages over other systems it is my CMS of choice. That said, it’s still not widely known outside the tech world, with so many website owners not hearing of it.
This blog is to provide some information about the benefits of using Joomla.
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