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SEOMoz just posted a great list of 14 best practices for modern SEO that they are using with their consulting clients. Some real interesting tips, like the lack of importance of H1 tags and  meta keywords.

Keep reading for review of the 14, with some notes about possible Joomla Joomla implications.

Joomla 1.5.11 has been released, and it includes security patches, so its important to update. But getting your Joomla Joomla site upgraded to the new version can be tricky, especially if you are using FTP.

Fortunately, there is an easier way, check out Joomlashack's tutorial How to Update Joomla 1.5 Versions.

Over the last week I have been talking (How to Track Offsite Links for Google Goals in Joomla) about how to use Google Analytics for your Joomla Joomla site to better track conversions, marketing efforts, and the usability of your site.

Allowing users to register at a Joomla site is very very common. It also makes a great goal to track. Discovering the URL to use in the funnel path is a little tricky, as there is a confirmation email involved. When users register on a Joomla Joomla 1.5 site, they get a confirmation email with a link to click on. This is the URL you need to use as the goal URL.

But for your continuing Google happiness, here is the inside scoop on how to do this, whatever your site, this URL is always the same, and here it is.

Google Goals. Love 'em, use 'em, make business decisions based on them.

If you didn't know what a "Google goal" is, its a feature of Google Analytics. It allows you to set up a specific and discrete goal for something on your website. Examples might be:

• Making a purchase
• Downloading a white paper
• Filling out a contact form
• Downloading a file

I'd thought I'd share some help I passed onto students from the Web 2.0 Marketing with Joomla Graduate Course. The class are developing goals for their case study websites and pondering how best to set them up.

Recently I wrote an article that proved to be immensely popular. I then thought it would be good to reach out to a favorite Joomla Joomla! blog of mine: Compass Designs. Here is a companion piece to my original post on promoting your Joomla Joomla content, Five (more) tips to promoting your content.

When we speak at events, or do Joomla Joomla Joomla training, one of the questions we get asked again and again is:

"What are your favorite Joomla extensions?"

There have been lots of people that have tried to answer this question, and its a hard one. One thing that I think makes it hard is the question isn't "what is the best extension?" That sort of question is really focusing on a particular scenario. The questioner perhaps means something like "what is the best comment extension?". The Joomla extension directory has lots of good information about this sort of question at the following pages:

• Most Favoured
• Editors' Picks
• Popular Extensions
• Most Rated
• Top Rated
• Most Reviewed

I think what people are really asking are "what are the best extensions that you find yourself using again and again on many sites?"

OK, so lets try and answer that question!