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JoomlaDay USA was 2 weeks ago and it was a blast. Laura, Dorothy and the "Joomla Bunch" did a phenomenal work at putting the event together and we should have access to all the talks in video soon. Many thanks to all of you and I'll post back when the videos are up.
But JoomlaDay USA was also a major event for Weeblr and me personnally, as we were finally able to start the public beta period for our new shiny all-in-one SEO extension,4SEO:
It's been nearly a year in the making and uses the best technology available today (in my opinion, of course!) to give you an insanely fast and easy experience inside of either Joomla 3 or Joomla 4. We have put all the experience gathered on both Joomla and SEO over the last 14 years (!) into it, in the hope of providing a simple and mostly automated answer to the difficult technical SEO problems most website owners face.
Read more: 4SEO all-in-one SEO extension introduced at JoomlaDay USA
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A bit more than 2 weeks to go and we'll finally be able to attend a JoomlaDay again. Well, sure, it's online but after so much time I'm pretty happy to gather with fellow Joomlers from around the USA and beyond.
So happy in fact that after being accepted to speak, I decided to become a sponsor and try help Laura and the entire team in putting the event together. Don't know the team? they've done
The speaker line-up is impressive and they will cover the entire spectrum of building and running Joomla sites.
I myself will discuss "What's up in SEO in 2021", covering both new SEO things as well as trying to sort out what matters and what does not.
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A couple of months ago, I started using Firefox more and more and found that I was missing on at least one SEO-related extension. That's when I set out to build a simple browser extension to accompany me in Firefox and ... 2 months later, we now have a fully featured Firefox and Chrome SEO extension. Yes, it was so useful to me on Firefox that I could not do without it on Chrome :)
Here's is a short extract from the documentation:
SEOInfo displays icon alerts as you navigate website pages for SEO-related technical errors. At the click of a button, all SEO and performance information and graphs about the current page are displayed. This includes SEO checks and AMP validation inside the extension. This information can be saved with a single click to another tab for printing or saving to file.
Plenty of things! A nearly full list can be found on this page of the documentation but there are mostly 2 things I wanted to achieve:
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We're just out of Black Friday/CyberMonday madness where so many companies offer discounts so large it makes me wonder just how much they have to charge later to recoup their costs. Another thing that bugs me is that active, paying subscribers actually do not get those extraordinary deals.
We're not discount fans here as I prefer offering our lowest possible price to everyone, all year's round. The exception is our subscribers who get a 20% discount when they renew and keep using our Joomla extensions.
But this year is not like any other: we quietly celebrated 10 years of sh404SEF being a professional extension - and 13 years since I started its development!
That's many years and many people have trusted us with their SEO during that time. So to celebrate with you, starting today and until January 3,
Even more exceptional: renewal discounts normally apply only to active subscribers, but again until January 3:
Now is the time to take advantage of those anniversary discount as sh404SEF 4.18 and wbAMP 1.15 are just out today!
Cheers
Yannick
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SEO is a constantly moving field but most often changes are "backward-compatible": if your site is properly set up and you have good content, you'll keep doing well even as technical SEO evolves and becomes more sophisticated. Additional techniques such as structured data, OGP, redirects and canonical and of course AMP can be added step by step to improve results, especially in competitive fields.
This is why the change happening to Google policies on Search results display is quite unusual and more importantly, it potentially has much larger consequences for many websites owners. Negative consequences that is!
Up until now, when showing one or your site's page in their results, Google would use that page title, a short extract of the page content and possibly some images or video. And so your pages were getting full visibility.
When the changes come into effect, news websites must opt-in to have extract, images and video be shown. If not, only your page title and URL will be displayed.
Read more: Update your robots meta tag or become (nearly) invisible in Google Search results