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I have personally tried various open source software available for CMS and/or web publishing including wordpress, mambo, joomla, phpbb (and other forums) and I have to conclude to myself that best SEO services are offered by Mambo and Joomla

However, one must note that Mambo and Joomla by default doesn’t have great SEO features, and it is not even enabled by default. The basic SEO feature in Mambo and Joomla just organizes the URL friendlier for search engine to gulp, but doesn’t give any keyword benefit from content. When default SEO is turned on in Mambo or Joomla, the URL of content page looks more like www.seodon.com/section/cat/id.

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Often Blog component of mambo joomla is misunderstood. The blog component in mambo or joomla is nothig related to facility for users to write blogs.

In fact blog page in mambo joomla puts together various content items and is configurable by users. Note that its just the differently organized view of same content items. As I discover more blog component turns out to be real good way of organizing your content. I would map it to what is called as category in wordpress.

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Central AdSense or YPN Block for Mambo and Joomla

Google heat map for ad placement gives highest weight to the ads placed in the center of page. Ads placed at center location on screen generates maximum CTR thus increasing the revenues.

A sample of application of such ads at the central location can be seen at www.healthdebitcard.com and www.skincarediary.com

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How to use search engine friendly URLs feature of mambo and joomla? Read on for step by step instructions to turn on the SEF URLs in mambo or joomla.

To make URLs in mambo or joomla search engine friendly, do following:

Make sure your server has mod_rewrite enabled (so you need to have apache servers) Server must allow .htaccess override

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Mambo and Joomla are probably newest and most exciting open source available today. However as with every open source their core lacks some real SEO work which should have been present.

The default search engine friendly URLs feature is optional in both CMS and has specific pre-conditions. It needs to have the site be hosted on apache only server with mod_rewrite enabled, .htaccess override enabled.

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Joomla and Mambo are the coolest open source content management systems around now. Both of these systems comes with default component and module for banner management, however features provided by this component are very basic. The banner module shows the banners at the specific location configured from admin console. You can setup multiple banners and these banners (you can use it for AdSense or ypn ) are shown in rotation.

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