For the third time, Arc Technology Group will be the lead sponsor of an conference for the open source content management system (CMS) community to be hosted by the CMS Association.
CMS Expo 2009 will take place April 29 - May 1, 2009, in Evanston.
Day 1 at cmsExpo (December 4) was filled with fantastic sessions covering everything from SEO techniques, theme development and some very serious advanced component development. The day's sessions were followed with a robust expert panel and finally the 2008 CMSAwards Banquet. Seven awards were presented:
Best Joomla-Powered Retail Website: www.innovative-baby.com by The Incite Group
Arc Technology Group is in Denver and getting ready to meet hundreds of people in the Joomla economy. Day 0 included setting up our booth, some shenanigns and the speakers' dinner.
For more information on cmsExpo, go to www.cmsexpo.net and follow our photo gallery on facebook.
We are intensively involved in search engine optimization (SEO) and using the Joomla CMS to achieve SEO, and we will talk with anyone who will listen about the fine points of good coding for SEO.
But something occurred to me this morning: I can't stress enough that two or three basic features of the Joomla CMS make SEO, especially the ongoing management of SEO, much, much smoother
I had an epiphany at a recent meeting of our Joomla Chicago group. The presentation was about search engine optimization (SEO), and the presenter said, "You want to align yourself with the keywords that Google has, because Google isn't just guessing what people are interested in; people tell Google what they're looking for!
It reminded me of an episode of Seinfeld, in which Kramer realized that people were dialing his phone number by mistake, trying to reach Moviephone. He decided to play along and help people find their movies -- being Kramer, he didn't have anything better to do -- and so he said in a recording-sounding voice, "Please enter the first three letters of the movie you want to see!" After several false steps at matching the tones to a current movie listing, it dawned on him that he had no way to decipher the tones people were punching in . . . so he
