Download Premium Joomla Themes

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

It is something like WordPress but much more powerful and complex. If WordPress is suited for personal blogs or small scale websites then Joomla would be for larger more complex website.

Most webhost’s offer one click Joomla installation therefore making it very easy for your to get your website up and ready, however getting it to look good is a different ballgame. Out of the box Joomla looks very basic at the user end and you would need some good theme to make it look cool and professional.

Check out ThemeForest, they have Joomla themes starting just $10

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Country Specific Domain Name…any Good?

Most of us, when we want to start a website automatically think of a dot com domain name but since almost all the good ones are already taken we end up buying a country specific domain name. Have you ever wondered how it affects your search ranking?

I am not to sure about how other search engines handle country specific domains but Google clearly gives priority to country wise specific domains on their country search engines.

Have a look at the graphic below which I have taken from my Google Webmaster Tool page, it clearly shows that Google automatically decided that the target country is India as the domain name is India specific (.in)

Google coutry specific domina name

This also tells you that if you are starting a website which might have a world wide audience, then you better stick to a .com or a .net

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Using 301 Redirects for Better Page Ranking

By default, websites / blogs can be accessed by with or without the www in the front of the domain name; however search engines see this as two different domains. One with the www and one without. To avoid content duplicity it is advisable to choose one and to stick with it, this way SE’s can consolidate all links to your domain whether they are with or without the www and give you the maximum link juice.

There are many ways to accomplish this, you can find in detail on this website. You can also use Google Webmaster tools to tell Google your preference so that you are nicely covered in the biggest search engine.

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2009
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WordPress Premium Magazine Theme

To many, WordPress is just a simple blog software and is good enough to run a blog but WordPress has a lot of features which are yet to be explored. You would have seen that a lot of online magazines have sprung up in the recent past and most of them work on either custom software or use bigger CMS solutions like Drupal or Joomla or iJoomla. Little is it known that with WordPress you can run a online magazine and is a lot less complicated.

Customizing Drupal & Joomla is for experts and designers with good CSS and PHP knowledge and even the admin area has its own learning curve. If we compare it with WordPress, it is a lot simple to use with very intuitive and friendly admin. WordPress themes are also a lot easy to customize and can be easily done by a novice.

Now that you have chosen WordPress as the software for your magazine site, let me tell you where you can get the best Premium Magazine theme.

Check out Arthemia theme from Colorlabs Project…In their words.

“Arthemia Premium is a magazine style theme that unleashes the power of WordPress, transforming it into a simple-yet-powerful CMS with the automatic thumbnail generation feature. A nice and elegant blend of a blog and a magazine. With numerous built-in features, Arthemia Premium will convert your old-fashioned WordPress blog into an amazing and powerful front-end. If you are running an online magazine or a corporate website, Arthemia Premium is the one-stop solution for you.”

The theme cost $70 and is well worth the price.

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How to Check Your Competitors Traffic

Alexa.com: Alexa has built an unparalleled database of information about sites that includes statistics, related links and more. All of this information can be found on Alexa’s Site Overview pages, Traffic Detail pages and Related Links pages. To access these pages, simply type the URL of any site into the Alexa Search box.

TrafficEstimate.com: Use the Traffic Estimate tool to find out approximately how much traffic a website gets by entering the URL of the web site.

CheckSiteTraffic.com: The tool uses various information about a website and calculate the traffic based on complex formula. This webmaster tool is extremely useful to use before buying a website. You can also calculate what profit you can generate from AdSense based on the traffic results.

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