Joomla Tips

Insert a module in a article

The easiest way to achive this is to insert this into the article:

Insert this code into the article loadposition joomla article

Go to -> Extensions -> Module Manager -> Edit the module you want

In position enter the module your typed before (in this case user666).

Finito, you now have a module in your article!

Backup your Joomla site

Here are some examples why to make backup's:

Joomla sites gets hacked. This happens alot, i know. I got 6 sites and 2 of them have been hacked, several times. The joomla community tries to fill the security holes allt the times and they are doing a good job. But still new holes are exploited.
Fast way to set up a new joomla site. I keep an clean install of joomla as a backup, and when i set up a new site i just use that backup to fast get it up and running. Way faster then to put all the joomla files up with an ftp.
User misstakes. If you set up a joomla site for a customer (or friend) that isnt that good with joomla, they can easily mess up things. An backup is a easy way to restore what has been "destroyed".

There is a terrific extension out there you should have. It is called JoomlaPack. Easy, fast and clean. I love it.

Get JoomlaPack here: www.joomlapack.net

SEO - Header tags in article title

Heading tags in article title.

Joomla has an disadvantage and it is a seo problem. There is no way to add a <h1>, <h2> or other heading tag to the article titles strait out of the box. This can be achived throw a plug in called "Add header tags to article titles". The title of this plug-in is bullet proof and it do exactly what it says.

You can find this nice plugin here.

Excellent site map for Joomla

Why use a site map?

There are two types of sitemaps. The first type of sitemap is a HTML page listing the pages of your site and is meant to help users find the information they need.

The other type is the XML Sitemaps. They are a way for you to give Google information about your site. In simple terms, a sitemap is a list of all the pages on the site.

Creating and submitting a sitemap helps Google (and other search engines) to include all your pages, even those that mau not be discovered by Google's normal crawling process.

So, it's a god thing. And the best sitemap today for Joomla is the Xmap by Vargas. And it it works flaulessly with Google Webmaster Tools.

Get it here: http://joomla.vargas.co.cr/downloads/cat_view/1-xmap

Free & legal music in Joomla

There is a way to have any music you want on your Joomla site (or any site actually). The solution is GrooveShark. It is an compeditor to Spotify, but it's open to the whole world and allows you to embed playlists or songs to your webpage.

First you need to create the playlist. go to http://widgets.grooveshark.com/.

Then just copy the code that the site generates and paste the code into an article or a module. Use the "html"-mode to paste it.

Finished! Here you see an example with our favorite songs. Press play on tape. :)

Speed up the administration in Joomla

The backend in Joomla can be really slow sometimes, and that is the biggest downside with joomla. But there is a great way to speed up Joomla administration. Thanks to (the genius) Phil Taylor and GoogleGears, there is a FREE extension. Its called "TurboGears for Joomla" and can be found here:

www.phil-taylor.com (the extension)

GoogleGears (you need this to, also free)

No-follow on weblinks

Why get rid of the follow links in the weblinks?
Well, page rank is one of the barebones of google and if you want to strike on the top you want to get a high page rank. And if you have alot of weblinks your page rank will "leak" to these sites. Rel="nofollow" is the key here. We have been looking for a good module/plugin/componen to fix the leaking of page rank, but with no result. It seems like the only way is to hack joomla in order to fix this.

Go to com_weblinks folder and edit weblinks.html.php

Change this code:
// open in a new window
$item->link = '<a href="'. $link .'" target="_blank" class="'. $menuclass .'">'. $this->escape($item->title) .'</a>';

To this code:
// open in a new window
$item->link = '<a href="'. $link .'" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="'. $menuclass .'">'. $this->escape($item->title) .'</a>';

If you set your links to open in new browser they will now be no follow.

Quber - The best slideshow module for joomla

If you are looking for a good slideshow module for joomla, you can stop look now. Thwe awnser simply is Quber. It's a flash module that delivers amazing presentation of your images. Fully customazible. You can watch the demo or download it from http://www.quber.org.

How to earn money on your joomla web page

There are a lot of ways to earn money on your webpage or blog. How much you earn is dependable of these three factors:

First factor is your traffic

How many visitors do you have each month? If you have one hundred you probably earn less than a web site that has ten thousand visitors.

Second factor is how you earn money.

AdSense

The quick and easy way is to sign up for Google Adsense. It’s not so much money in this, but it’s the easy way out. You get money whenever someone is clicking your ads. Here you find modules that help you set up Adsense in joomla.

Affiliate Programs

This is what we would recommend. You get paid by clicks or by sale. If it is by sale you get a fixed procent of the sale done thru the ads on your site. There is a lot of affiliate programs, all of them are free to sign up on. So, check out these programs and choice some ads that apply to your visitors.

Zanox Affiliate
(US and International)

TradeDoubler Affiliate
(Europe only)

Webshop

You can start your own web shop and sell things. This is the hardest way to make money, but you will keep all the profit for yourself. One word of advice if you are going to start a web shop: sell stuff that you like or are interested in. It makes it all easier and you will be able to answer questions from customer better. If you don’t want to have all the wares in your garage,

Third factor is target group.

The target group is your visitors. If you have a web site about computer parts, you have a very specific target group. And to choice ads that apply to them is easy (computer related ads). But if you have a web site with funny movie clips from YouTube, then it’s harder to pick your target group. Now you have to test back and forth and see what works. Maybe it’s DVD-movies, books or fashion.

Conclusion:

Since all of the above is free, just try! If you don’t make any money, try something else. And you won’t be a millionaire the first month. You have to work to get more traffic to your site, and more traffic is often more money.

Good luck!

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