September 2009
4 posts
RSS Links Widget →
The Happiness Engineers had a great time in London last week. We worked on some cool projects and came up with a lot of great ideas. We’ll bring more updates to you over the coming weeks…
Sep 10th
After the Deadline Live for WP.com →
Last week you guys published 1.4 million new blog posts, but you only ran the spell checker about 204 thousand times. Ahem. The two possible explanations for this are that we’re all…
Sep 9th
RSS in the Clouds →
Clouds from my trip to WordCamp Dallas RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s a way for people to subscribe to updates to your blog using a client like Google Reader…
Sep 8th
August Wrap-Up →
I’m back in San Francisco after a trip to London for the Happiness Engineer meetup. It’s serious business, but the group has managed to have a little fun along the way. Our…
Sep 4th
August 2009
6 posts
Support Hours and Updates →
In the coming week, the Support crew (seen among the lovely faces here) will be meeting in London to brainstorm new ways of providing you with the resources you need. While us Happiness…
Aug 27th
New Theme: Sandbox 1.6.1 →
Sandbox 1.6.1 is now available to all WordPress.com blogs. Alongside Sandbox 1.6.1 you’ll also find the older Sandbox versions. We’ve left them intact. If you’ve been using them, don’t worry,…
Aug 20th
WP.me — shorten your links →
Check out this address: http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten If you visit it, you’ll end up right back here. The nice thing about it is that it’s a short link, about  70% smaller than the …
Aug 14th
SoundCloud →
We are big fans of SoundCloud, a really useful service that is part Flickr for music, part professional music collaboration hub. Artists such as Beck, Moby and Sonic Youth now use the…
Aug 14th
New Theme: iNove →
iNove by mg12 is one of the top themes used for self-hosted WordPress blogs, and a commonly requested addition to our offerings here on WordPress.com. We’re always doing what we can to…
Aug 13th
July Wrap-Up →
We kicked off July with an open vote on new media features. Thanks to all of you who voted and submitted comments. Your feedback determines the future of WordPress. Later in the month we…
Aug 5th
July 2009
6 posts
Archives Shortcode →
You publish a lot of quality content (trust us, we know). And so we understand that making it easily accessible to your faithful readers is very important for you as a blogger. Sure, our …
Jul 30th
Gravatar Widget →
Say goodbye to messing around with HTML in a Text widget just to get an “About Me” in your sidebar. With the new Gravatar widget it only takes a few seconds to achieve this and stamp…
Jul 23rd
PollDaddy ratings and polls →
PollDaddy joined the Automattic team last year, and we have been working on adding some of our great features directly into the WordPress platform ever since. Ratings The PollDaddy rating…
Jul 17th
Vote for Media Features →
Here at WordPress.com, we always run the most recent version of the WordPress open source software. In addition, we do custom development so that we can offer features not included in the open…
Jul 8th
June Wrap-Up →
Last month we launched the Yahoo! App and 360 importer so you can migrate your content to WordPress.com quickly and easily. And we introduced the SocialVibe widget, which helps you earn…
Jul 3rd
National Blog Posting Month →
Remember National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) back in November? You all used the opportunity to take a swing at churning out a 50,000-word novel on your blogs in only one month — some with…
Jul 2nd
June 2009
2 posts
May Wrap-Up →
Sorry for this being the latest wrap-up ever. May was a fun month for us. We rolled out a ton of new features: the ability to add YouTube videos and polls to comments, stats in your time…
Jun 16th
SocialVibe →
You spend a lot of time creating great content and attracting an audience for your blog. What if you could use that influence to make a positive social impact? Now you can. We’ve teamed up with…
Jun 16th
April 2009
2 posts
Why Joomla, WordPress and Drupal all Fail at... →
Yes, that is right, they all fail at Search Engine Optimization… I have been reading several new posts about how well WordPress is doing SEO compared to Joomla! and how good Drupal is in SEO…
Apr 28th
Joomla Search Engine Optimization Blog updates →
Apr 21st
March 2009
1 post
Lost and Regained Traffic from Google, Yahoo and... →
I want to show you a small picture: For those among you who are used to looking at website traffic graphics you see that something strange has happened here… You see, the picture above is…
Mar 30th
February 2009
1 post
Email Posting your Blog content on Posterous and...
I am always looking to find great functional websites that allow me to cover more ground as it comes to Search Engine Optimization.   From a Google alert I came to find the posterous blog of David Barnes http://davidbarneswork.posterous.com/ who has some great information on writing, outlines and creative ideas on How To write. so I want to give this oen a try as well.   It...
Feb 7th
January 2009
1 post
Moving from Feedburner to Google Feeds and Why? →
If you are running your feeds through Feedburner, you should know that Google bought that service in 2007. Now they are making the next step, moving the feeds from Feedburner.com to…
Jan 21st
December 2008
1 post
The new Joomla Extensions Directory JED Policy and... →
In the last week of this year Joomla announced that the Joomla Extensions Directory (JED) is going to be Only Joomla 1.5 GPL licensed Extensions as of July 1st 2009, and more importantly also all…
Dec 30th
November 2008
2 posts
Ranking on Google is going to change in 2009 →
If you keep an eye on things that are happening on Google, you will find some interesting things going on at this moment. Ranking and Google Changes First I want to point you to two video’s from…
Nov 24th
Learn SEO from Google’s webmasters →
If you don’t have an RSS feed subscription on the Google Webmaster Central Blog yest, I strongly advice you te get one… On there latest post they included an nice basic SEO Starters Guide from…
Nov 13th
September 2008
2 posts
Nooku? Nooku! The way to go for Multi-language... →
A few weeks ago I didn’t know what to think of Nooku… I heard of it, read the Blog posts at Joomlatools.org but still saw it as a new Joomfish component. But then I got to the eduvision Joomla…
Sep 27th
Joomla Duplicate Content and Dynamic URLs -... →
In the last few days, the Joomla SEO and Bloggers community have been writing a lot about two posts on the Official Webmaster Blog. Two posts, one about Demystifying the “duplicate content…
Sep 24th
August 2008
3 posts
Weblog engines reviewed by Smashing magazine →
Yet another great post from Smashing Magazine, this time Glen Stansberry wrote post reviewing of 10 Weblog Engines among them WordPress, Drupal and Joomla! Af course they included…
Aug 29th
Joomla 1.5.6 Security Fix and Some advice on... →
Joomla just released version 1.5.6. of its Open Source CMS. This release is an security fix that fixes a leak that “will allow an unauthenticated, unauthorized user to reset the password of the…
Aug 13th
Google Insights use for analysis and upcoming... →
My Google Alert on Joomla SEO just brought me this link to an Google Insights Article that also discussed the use of this new tool in conjunction with the previous mentioned report in Open…
Aug 7th
July 2008
3 posts
Water & Stone Reporting on Open Source CMS Market... →
Today I read a Report from Water & Stone, a big name in the Mambo community as one of there Templates is a great looking one with a lot of installations. The report (which you can download…
Jul 29th
Joomla 1.5.5 and SEF Improvements →
Joomla released a new version 1.5.5 after just three weeks of the 1.5.4. release. That release had a serious defect in producing duplicate title code in the HTML output, that has been fixed in…
Jul 28th
Google Affiliate Network Start, Adsense Referrals... →
Today Performics and Google announced there final cooperation into the affiliate marketing by introducing the Google Affiliate Network Along with this announcement, there was also a…
Jul 1st
June 2008
1 post
WordPress SEO Post and Joomla Lessons →
Joost de Valk has written a great article on his new website about WordPress and SEO, Calling it “The Definitive Guide To High Rankings For Your Blog”  and I must say, he does a splendid Job in…
Jun 12th
May 2008
3 posts
Viral Marketing for On-line store Hema →
I just wanted you to see this one…. it is not about Joomla, but really about viral marketing. This thing already has gotten an Webby Awards for Viral Marketing and they worked really hard to get…
May 24th
Free Search Engine Optimization Video’s and... →
I have been following the Stompernet guys for some weeks now, as they are moving into the next Stompernet teachings. Just have a look at Stompernet Going Natural 3 but you have to leave your…
May 22nd
Feedburner stats with Netvibes Back →
After my last post about Loosing Feedburner RSS Subscribers, I am glad to see that for the last weeks everything works just fine. Thank you Feedburner and Netvibes for solving this problem. So…
May 22nd
April 2008
4 posts
How to Loose 623 Feed subscribers with one Update →
So you think I have made a wrong update on this Blog, do you? Well, guess again… it was not my update! First let me tell you I am a big fan of Netvibes and Feedburner as well, because they both…
Apr 26th
How to Loose 623 Feed subscribers with one Update →
So you think I have made a wrong update on this Blog, do you? Well, guess again… it was not my update! First let me tell you I am a big fan of Netvibes and Feedburner as well, because they both…
Apr 26th
Joomla instead of WordPress and some Joomla SEO... →
After writing my last Joomla SEO Blog post, I started working on a Clients website with WordPress as Content Management System. However running more into the project I hit some technical…
Apr 1st
Joomla instead of WordPress and some Joomla SEO... →
After writing my last Joomla SEO Blog post, I started working on a Clients website with WordPress as Content Management System. However running more into the project I hit some technical…
Apr 1st
February 2008
5 posts
A Joomla SEO Post I didn’t want to write… →
This is really a post about Joomla and SEO I would rather not have written…. but it is a great case studie, so here we go… About 3 weeks back I did some work on my major dutch website, replacing a SEF component, replacing the template and also updating the site to Joomla 1.0.13 which I should have done some time ago.. (no not to Joomla 1.0.14 yet, but you will see in the end why not). The SEF...
Feb 21st
A Joomla SEO Post I didn’t want to write… →
This is really a post about Joomla and SEO I would rather not have written…. but it is a great case studie, so here we go… About 3 weeks back I did some work on my major dutch website, replacing a SEF component, replacing the template and also updating the site to Joomla 1.0.13 which I should have done some time ago.. (no not to Joomla 1.0.14 yet, but you will see in the end why not). The SEF...
Feb 21st
WordPress Plugins & SEO Mailing list from Joost de... →
I just received an email form Joost de Valk, one of the best Search Engine Optimization and WordPress specialists I can think off. If you don’t know him yet, check out his website and check the contributers list of the famous SEO Ranking factors. Yes his is one of the ”37 leaders in the world of organic search engine optimization“…. He is starting to build his own list of email subscribers to...
Feb 6th
WordPress Plugins & SEO Mailing list from Joost de... →
I just received an email form Joost de Valk, one of the best Search Engine Optimization and WordPress specialists I can think off. If you don’t know him yet, check out his website and check the contributers list of the famous SEO Ranking factors. Yes his is one of the ”37 leaders in the world of organic search engine optimization“…. He is starting to build his own list of email subscribers to...
Feb 6th
Replacing OpenSEF with sh404SEF →
I Just replaced the old OpenSEF component with the new sh404SEF component to improve my total Search Engine Optimization efforts for this website. It wasn’t as straight formward as you might think… I did try before and failed, then I made the move back to OpenSEF. Not this time however, I wanted it to work…!! So here is what you might do if you want to do the same switch: -...
Feb 2nd
January 2008
4 posts
A new Blog? No, it just moved.. →
Most of you, have found this Blog to be on a sub-domain from the main site Design Cars. And although that was were it started, it soon became obvious to me that it was not the best place for it. No, Design Cars and this Joomla SEO Blog did not really match…from an SEO point of view that is. Next to my other site and Blog about Joomla! Pathos Seo and that Joomla Blog I wanted to give you more...
Jan 30th
A new Blog? No, it just moved.. →
Most of you, have found this Blog to be on a sub-domain from the main site Design Cars. And although that was were it started, it soon became obvious to me that it was not the best place for it. No, Design Cars and this Joomla SEO Blog did not really match…from an SEO point of view that is. Next to my other site and Blog about Joomla! Pathos Seo and that Joomla Blog I wanted to give you more...
Jan 30th
Joomla 1.5 Stable release now ready for Download... →
Today Joomla 1.5 Stable release is a fact, Just read the announcement form the Joomla Core team and Download your version form the Joomla 1.5 Files. So how to move forward from here, and what will bring Joomla 1.5 use in SEO and SEF options? I will not be writing about this release here, but on my own Joomla SEO Blog, because I don’t have the time anymore to update three blogs. So if you...
Jan 22nd