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For reasons detailed in an earlier post about why Joomla canonical urls are not implemented correctly it may be that you want to remove them. That’s pretty easy by hacking the core, but safer to unset the tag in your template so the changes don’t get wiped out on an upgrade.
For a while now in Google webmaster tools there has been an option under the ‘optimization’ tab called ‘Data Highlighter’. This is their new attempt at an alternative to structured data (or another way to add it without changing the structure of your pages). It is essentially a wizard interface to get Google to understand
Adobe recently released their ‘blank font’. It is essentially a font which contains no glyphs and is basically a css hack to stop the flash of unformatted text when using webfonts. I wrote a long time ago about how to cache the font files when using @fontface. That method can be used in conjunction with this
Google has been using microdata for quite a while now and adding it to your website can help with clickthrough rates from search engine results. The most obvious is Google’s own authorship markup (not strictly microdata per se) where linking to your Google+ profile adds your profile image to pages in search results, but there
Last month (April 2013) Twitter announced the introduction of a new set of meta tags known as ‘Twitter Cards’. Adding these tags to your site allows extra information such as an image and description to be attached to any tweet which contains a url of a page on your website. You can read the twitter
Sometimes there is a need to get the current content/site language to use in other places. An example being when you want to set social share buttons to display in the same language as the site. Luckily Joomla makes this easy for us.
Contact forms are supposed to make it easy for users to ask a question or just get in touch. These days, with all the captcha and anti-spam methods attached, the chances of a form being filled in incorrectly and not being sent is highly likely. The number of people using mobile devices who might loose
I was recently asked a couple of times about international SEO and targeting websites with similar content at the correct people without just serving up a duplicate site. The most obvious example of this is a .com website which is meant for American audiences and .co.uk which is meant for England, but it could also be
@fontface is a great tool for giving your site an individual look, the down-side is that on a standard site, the font is downloaded on each page view. As the font can take a little time to download, the page text is loaded first and then the font is replaced once it has finished downloading