Hi all,

I am super happy to announce the release of a brand new Joomla extension that I have worked on for the past few months: please welcome 4Analytics!

I'm sure you arealdy guessed by the name: it's a fully-featured analytics extension, one that I believe brings a few things not available just yet in the Joomla ecosystem.

But why?

For what seems like forever, measuring your website traffic was synonymous with opening a Google Analytics account, and adding a few lines of javascript by copy/pasting them to your template index.php file, or adding a plugin just for that.

But then came a few things that changed the landscape:

• privacy laws, such as GDPR in Europe, CCPA in California and a lot more in various countries around the world
• an actual concern for privacy by a growing number of users (ads and cookie blockers extensions)
• the "need for speed", or why have Google or other load several hundreds kilobytes of javascript doing plenty of things only them cared about, while you are fighting to optimize all your content and images for speed?
• the complexity of navigating analytics services dozens of pages and reports 

Hi all,

This is the text transcript of my talk at JoomlaDagen 2024 in Tilburg on June 1st. Watch the full video on all that's happening in the land of Search Engines (a lot is...) here.

My name is Yannick Gaultier. I'm from France. I'm here to talk today about search engines and SEO and what's happening. Here are the sponsors of the event. I'm not one of them, but let's, uh, so here there are the people who can make this event happen and please use their extensions, their services.

My own company is called Weeblr.com and I have been involved with Joomla since about 2005. I've been doing extensions mostly in the field of SEO. I had an extension that has been running for 15 years called SH404SEF, which was all about SEO. Since the pandemic, I have completely renewed all these extensions and I'm running a series which are now 4AI, 4SEO, 4SEF, 4Podcasts, 4video, and 4logs. Recently, 4Command. All of them have in common that they are focused on SEO or content, which is basically one and the same.

But today, I'm not going to talk about any of my extensions and I'm not going to talk about detailed SEO. Maybe what you're expecting like, what exactly which settings should I set and how should I set them in J to do good SEO? Because of course, that does not exist. That's usual SEO talk. But today I want to talk about HCU and AIO. Does anyone know, is it familiar to anybody here? Oh, that's excellent, that's excellent.

Hi all,

Per the title, here is the full video of my talk earlier this month at JoomlaDagen 2024 about all that's happening in the land of Search Engines (a lot is...)

If you prefer reading, I have a full transcript on the next blog post here.

Cheers,

Yannick

Hi all,

I am an SEO guy. For the last 15 years, I have kept learning SEO, analyzed SEO blog posts and announcements daily and tried to put all that learning and tracking in a number of Joomla extensions such as 4SEO or 4SEF.

And SEO has been all about content for a while now, so I have also made extensions to assist with content:

• 4AI since Artificial Intelligence is here now to create content, text or images, translate, check-spell, summarize, tweet or write meta-descriptions
• 4Video because videos are important for today's sites, but you need to pay attention to performance when adding them
• 4Podcast as podcasting is a growing medium for people to consume what you have to say

All that to say that I know Joomla fairly well, and here at Weeblr, we have a history of technically advanced, modern Joomla extensions that are maintained and supported over time.

But one thing I am not is a seasoned Joomla website administrator. So maybe I could use a bit of help?

Hi all,

Over time, I've frequently encountered this question, as well as numerous instances where misunderstandings about the term "canonical" and its use in SEO have led to problems, confusion, and a great deal of wasted time.

I've been meaning to write about the concept of canonical for a while and this week, a comment at the end of a support ticket finally prompted me to do so. The comment was : 

I need to learn more about what "canonical" means

The thing is, canonical is used (mostly) in two different ways and they seem to contradict each other:

• a page is canonical (or not)
• a page has a canonical tag

The confusing part is that:

when a page has a canonical tag, it's usually because it's not canonical

How is that possible and should you care anyway?