Information, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks

The latest information, tutorials, tricks and tips for every aspect of Joomla website management. Topics include social bookmarking, search engine optimization (SEO), web development, small business best practices, web site monetizing with Google AdSense, performance optimization and much more for the Joomla CMS.
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Are your Google AdSense ads earning low revenue due to low cost-per-click (CPC)? Perhaps you''ve worked to set up a good ad placement strategy to raise your click-through-rate (CTR) but each click isn't paying you very much? There's a great website to help you remove the low-paying ads from your site, creating more room for the ads that will pay you more for each click (HCPC). I'll show you how to use the tools to generate a list of 200 blacklisted URLs automatically tailored to your specific website.

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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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Here's a cool SEO tip that will automatically bring you more traffic from Google and other search engines:  Put a Random Content module on your homepage. It's better to have it on as many pages as possible, but the homepage is key. I discovered this trick while experimenting with a few different ideas over at http://www.patrickswesey.com.

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A lot of small businesses have generic web hosting with email addresses that simply forward to a personal email account. This gets the job done but is very unprofessional. If a customer sends an email to billing and your reply is from your Yahoo! email account, the customer will see that you are a small-time operation without any infrastructure and will immediately lose faith in your business. I am about to show you how you can use the powerful features of Gmail to manage all of these email addresses from a single Gmail account, how to use Filters and Labels to organize all of this incoming mail, and how to respond to each of these emails while automatically replying with the correct name and email address.

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Here's a quick but extremely useful tip for PHP developers. When working on plugins or extensions for an existing framework, use the print_r() function on the API objects to find out what data structures they contain. Great PHP help tip.

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