Increase your website exposure with a dynamically driven website sitemap for joomla |
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Saturday, 20 June 2009 |
Search engines can't rank pages that they can't crawl and I will
introduce you to creating an index of your site and submitting it to major search
engines such as google, yahoo and bing.
After setting up xmap component on your website, you may need to
install additional xmap plugins for 3rd party Joomla components. For
example, if you have a Virtuemart website, you would want to install
Virtuemart plugin to be able to include links to all website products
on your sitemap. If an xmap plugin does not exist for what you need and
is important for you, it is possible to have it custom built.
With xmap, you'll end up with two
links:
1) The xml file link which is submitted to search engines google, yahoo and bing.
2) The front end link that is good for finding content by "live visitors" on a small site.
OGO Sense recommends first submitting your sitemap to Google which provides
important statistics on your site index status and any issues Google Spiders may find.
If you have any questions about creating or submitting a sitemap for your website, please contact us or leave a comment below.
Ogy Nikolic
Joomla CMS Expert
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 20 June 2009 )
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Website Outage Report (Jun 16 & 17) |
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Friday, 19 June 2009 |
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The goal of this blog post is to provide background information to those clients who experienced website outages on Monday and Tuesday this week. The following illustration demonstrates certain characteristics of any disaster timeline:
Figure 1. Typical disaster timeline
In our case, Time of Disaster happened on Monday (6/17/2009) around 11AM EST when two out of five OGO Sense servers suffered a DOS Attack . You might have heard that in the past Yahoo, Amazon and some popular services have suffered from these type of malicious attacks.
Related to our Last Restore Point, OGO Sense makes daily backups of website databases and weekly backup of all files. However, in this case, we did not need to use any of our site backups as official website data has been preserved. So Lost Data has been very minimal to none.
Service Downtime is the amount of the time from the Time of Disaster to the Service Restored point of time. In some cases, this downtime lasted as long as 24 to 28 hours for websites while email service continued to work correctly for most clients at all times.
Many clients have asked us why Service Downtime has taken so long and here are 3 primary reasons:
1. Many websites had their disaster recovery location on another server
that also got attacked a couple of hours later. This alternative
(disaster recovery) location is a place where sites are recreated if
their primary location fails.
2. OGO Sense did not have access or login information for many domain registrars or DNS Zones so it had to contact clients related to switching of nameservers or IP addresses.
3. The number of websites affected has been considerable which resulted in slow creation of 3rd party hosting accounts. Additionally, with limited access to those hosting accounts and different server configuration, additional issues have appeared and slowed down our team.
The Service Restored point of time took place as we moved some sites to different hosting accounts and set up new firewall rules to defend from the outside attacks on our servers.
While OGO Sense did not initiate these issues, we are truly sorry for the inconvenience caused and we'll credit all affected clients with one free month of maintenance. Additionally, we are looking to put additional measures in place to prevent similar attacks from hackers and your or our own competitors.
If you have any questions or comments about this network outage, please do not hesitate to contact us .
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Last Updated ( Friday, 19 June 2009 )
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A very simplified look at SEO |
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Friday, 24 April 2009 |
For a simplified approach to SEO, check out the video from Shama below or check out our premium SEO checklist for many more items that impact your SEO.
Additionally, I could add that Joomla Content Management System also allows for a really good website structure where you can easily add and modify website content.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 24 April 2009 )
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Three Months Free Joomla Support and Hosting for Business* |
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Sunday, 19 April 2009 |
Get 3 Months of Free Joomla Support and Hosting if you choose OGO Sense to
- design your new Joomla 1.5 website
- redesign your current Joomla 1.0 or 1.5 website
- convert your existing non-Joomla website to Joomla 1.5
- migrate your Joomla website from 1.0 to 1.5
A new Joomla 1.5 website from OGO Sense allows you to:
- improve search engine optimization and visitor conversions.
- refresh the look and feel of your current website.
- reevaluate your current web strategy and internet marketing plan.
- add new functionalities to increase your business automation and efficiency.
- manage critical business processes, update and add new content yourself.
- automatically migrate data from your existing website.
- and receive 3 Months of Free Joomla 1.5 Support and Hosting!
Over the past 2 years, OGO Sense has designed websites for Online Shops,
Paid Subscription Sites, Clubs and Organizations, Schools and
Colleges, Campgrounds, Hospitals, Small Banks, Churches and Many Small
Businesses.
* Offer valid only for upcoming estimates. Limited Time Offer.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 29 April 2009 )
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Image Uploading and Proper Resizing in Joomla |
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Monday, 06 April 2009 |
When uploading and inserting an image into the Joomla content item you should:
1. Put your cursor in the location where you would like to insert the image
2. Click on Insert/Edit image icon
3. Click on Upload icon and browse your local computer for the image you want to upload. You can resize the image right here by clicking checkmark and typing in new width for the image. The image will be resized proportionally immediately after upload has completed.
4. Click OK to start uploading.
Make sure to have the image you've just uploaded selected and edit any of the parameters if necessary (like: Description, Title, VSpace, HSpace, Alignment, etc.).
5. After you are satisfied with everything just click Insert button.
If you would like to resize the image that has been previously uploaded you SHOULDN'T scale it by dragging its corner diagonally (as on the image bellow):
Instead, you should select the image, click on Insert/Edit image icon and click on the Resize icon on the bottom right corner (see the image bellow):
If you find this tutorial difficult or have any recommendations that could improve it go ahead and make your comment bellow.
Dragan Grahovac | Business and Marketing Development | OGO Sense | www.ogosense.com
tel.+1 (617) 418-4646 | fax +1 (617) 446-1468 |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 27 April 2009 )
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