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( 22 Votes )
It can be very easy to add quotes or an apostrophe to the title of a new article, but don't do it! For example, I could have made the title of this article Don't Use Quotes or Special HTML Characters in Your Article Titles but I resisted using that apostrophe. Several plugins and components process the data stored in the title, title alias, meta description and meta keywords and do not always account for quotes or special characters so it is a good idea to avoid them. 

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This problem is inherent from the earliest versions of Joomla! and are related to the handling of the Itemid. This solution should work for any Joomla! website that displays the error because there aren't proper menu links to the specific content. There are many open tickets throughout the net in regards to this problem, this should work in some cases.

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( 38 Votes )

Many websites put Google Adsense or other forms of advertising directly in their forums. It's often a good idea to put ads directly before or after specific forum posts but it can be hard to write the code to place the ads correctly. Fireboard makes it easy by placing module positions within the forum component. Here's how you can place Adsense ads directly in your Fireboard forums

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( 20 Votes )

You may have heard that Google and other search engines prefer that you use dashes or hyphens (-) instead of underlines or underscores (_) as word separators in your URLs. Google actually recommends that you use dashes or hyphens when creating search engine friendly or search engine optimized URLs instead of underscores. Here's why. 

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