Updated: List of free SEO Directories and Search Engines

Just updated my list of free SEO friendly web directories.

34 new links were added.

Updated: List of free SEO Directories and Search Engines

Today I updated the List of free SEO friendly Web Directories and Search Engines, by adding 33 new links and removing 1 link of a problematic Directory.

This is list is going to be maintained and as often as possible updated in order to avoid broken Links or Directories which are not offering free submission anymore.

If you want to submit your own Directory let me know. But keep in mind in this List only Directories/Search Engines are allowed, which offer at least a free submission option with 1-way links (no need for reciprocal links).

NEW Version of the module Val-LinX for Joomla

NEW in this Version:

Version 1.1.0 (19/06/2009)

• Added: 5 CSS files (with appropriate graphics), from which 1 can be changed by the user for individual styling.
• Added: capability of entering user-defined texts for the headers of the table, the caption (which shows the total links), as well as the link that is displayed at the end of the table (back to top).
• Added: capability of an extra CSS style for each one of the table's columns.
• Changed/Removed: some of the CSS styles.

Joomla Tip: How to use the Google Analytics service for my Joomla Website?

What is the Google Analytics service

Google offers a free statistics service for your Website(s), which is called Google Analytics. In order to use it, you have to create an account at Google and then sign up for the Google Analytics service. Some of the features of this service are:

• Free and easy to use for everyone.
• Offers advanced information about the traffic of your Website.
• Possibility of user-defined custom reports.
• Integrated with the Google advertising service AdWords.
• Tracking of all your online campaigns.
• Safe. All information is protected from non-authorized people.
• Integrity and protection of all data.
• It is part of a larger Google product suite.
• It offers support and professional services.

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Joomla Tip: How to enable the Legacy Mode 1.0 of Joomla?

1. What is Legacy Mode 1.0

For sure you have also seen at some point some Joomla modules or components, which are only compatible with Joomla version 1.0. Is there a way to install these extensions on Joomla 1.5? The answer is "yes", but only those which allow this. To make sure this is possible, read first the documentation of the extensions you want to install. Then you have to activate a plugin, which is part of the default Joomla installation and is normally disabled.

2. Activation of Legacy Mode 1.0

• In order to activate the Legacy Mode you go at first to your administration Backend of your Website and up on the "Extensions" menu you click on "Plugin Manager".
  
• Then at the list of the Joomla plugins you look for the plugin with the name "System - Legacy". You click next to it to check it and so it is enabled.
  
• Now on the upper right you can see that Joomla notifies you with red letters that it works in "Legacy: 1.0" mode.
  

Joomla Tip: How to enable the SEO functions of Joomla on Apache Server?

1. Introduction

The SEO refers to search engine optimization. The SEO is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a website from search engines. The SEO can also be referred to as SEF, or Search Engine Friendly.

The websites are considered search engine friendly when they can be easily found from them. By default Joomla uses dynamic URL. These URL are usually long and contain many parameters.

2. Advantages of SEF URL

The most significant advantages of SEF URL are these:

• They are short in length.
• They are readable and easily remembered by humans.
• They contain keywords.
• They don't "break" in blogs and emails.
• They are more accurately indexed by the search engines.

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Joomla Tip: How to display a module in an article?

1. Introduction

You probably also needed some time to display a module in a Joomla article. This Joomla Tip will explain to you how to do it. The Tip has been tested on Joomla 1.5 in Legacy as well as in Native mode. Only condition for it to work is that the default Joomla plugin called "Load Module" is enabled.

• To check if the "Load Module" plugin is indeed enabled, click on the "Plugin Manager" from menu "Extensions".
  
• In the list of installed Joomla plugins look for the plugin with the title "Content - Load Module" and in case it isn't enabled, enable it.
  

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Joomla module Val-LinX

Val-LinX (mod_vallinx_j10)

Current Version: 1.0.0
Compatibility:

This module displays in a nice sortable table the links that are created with the Joomla component "LinX - Reciprocal link exchange component (SEO)", which is developed by Soren Beck Jensen. The script that this module uses to sort the table is in JavaScript and developed by Brian McAllister. Ofcourse, in order for this module to function, you need to have the LinX component already installed on your Joomla Website. This module was only tested in Joomla 1.5 "Legacy: 1.0" mode and it worked without any problems. The "Val-LinX" module is free software, which has been released under the GNU/GPL v2.0 license. It produces valid markup for XHTML as well as for CSS.

Joomla module ValAddThis

ValAddThis (mod_valaddthis_15)

Current Version: 1.2.0 (19/05/2009)
Compatibility:

This is my first Joomla extension. It's a module that displays the Bookmarking Button from AddThis.com and is inspired from a module by JoomlaMafia.com called "mod_AddThis". It produces valid markup for XHTML as well as for CSS. The "ValAddThis" module is free software, which has been released under the GNU/GPL v2.0 license.