BuyHTTP Corporate Blog

We at BuyHTTP would like to wish everyone a happy 2007 and start the year with a new tip for your Joomla or Mambo site.

When uninstalling components it’s not at all unusual for them to leave their database tables behind. Many do this to help with upgrading, making it a simple uninstall/reinstall situation. But if you are completely uninstalling a component, make sure to check the database using phpMyAdmin as see if the tables have been removed as well.

Have to thank friesengeist of the Joomla core team for this very nice tip for your Joomla or Mambo site.

There has been a lot of discussion lately on further securing your Joomla or Mambo installations and what can be done. We do everything possible at the server level but there are a few things that can done in your individual site to help ensure a hackless Joomla or Mambo existence.

This tip explains how to move your configuration.php file outside of your webroot as well as making it unwritable by the server. That makes it nearly impossible for someone to corrupt or gain access to the information in the file.

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In the world of dynamic sites there is often a lot of worry about duplicate content penalties since so many different URLs can point to the same exact page. We have good news to help quell those worries.

At the recent SES (Search Engine Strategies) in Chicago, Vanessa Fox of Google stated in an interview with WebProNews that there really are no duplicate content penalties for pages within your site. She even went as far as to specifically address dynamic sites and their content.

It is an extremely informative interview and great insight into some Google processes. She also goes over Google Sitemaps and how they can help your site get spidered faster.

To view the interview in it’s entirety visit  http://videos.webpronews.com/2006/12/06/vanessa-fox-clarifies-the-role-of-google-sitemaps/