Archive for February, 2011

How to Use the “No Follow” HTML Attribute

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 28 Feb 2011 | Tagged as: Algorithmic SEO, How To

The major search engines (Google, MSN, and Yahoo!) use a common HTML attribute for adjusting SEO rankings. When these search engines see the No Follow attribute in a hyperlink, they will exclude this link from its indexing and statistics gathering. Contrary to popular opinion, the No Follow attribute will not prevent robots from following the [...]

Modify the Copyright Information in a Joomla Template

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 27 Feb 2011 | Tagged as: How To

There is no obvious way to modify the copyright information that appears in the footer area of a Joomla template. You can set Enabled to off for the Footer module (mod_footer) in the Module Manager, which will remove the copyright information. Editing the Joomla Template If you would like to modify the copyright information, one [...]

Fixing Joomla’s “Unable to find install package”

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 16 Feb 2011 | Tagged as: How To

While trying to install a Joomla component today, it returned an error message saying “Unable to find install package.” I tried installing the same component in another Joomla site of mine and it worked, so now it was time to look for differences between the two sites to determine what was causing the problem. After [...]