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Details: Written by: Matthew Murphy; Category: Archive; Published: 04 February 2009; Hits: 29

For those who read the blog, You may now that this year we are going to have some changes. Some major, Some Minor.

This weekend we plan to close user registration and we are going to copy the database over and install a brand new Joomla 1.5.9 dump the database and import the copied one and totally overhall the site. Switching template, adding forum and getting the brand new downloads section online also going to redo a lot of the old articles. Drop a lot of the banners, Redo the Mafia Icon module to use a large icon to showcase that.

And we have several new free modules ... Well not new just never released them to the public. We are working on rewriting everything and really going to change how Mafia Icons works with a new concept. We are also going to start doing newsletters. As we never have sent a single newsletter once, and we have over 600 members. Several dozen have never loged in or activated there accounts, those people will be deleted.

JoomlaMafia.com is now 6 Months and 27 Days old. Its a PR5 with 42,031 inbound page links.

Details: Written by: Matthew Murphy; Category: Archive; Published: 24 January 2009; Hits: 35

So with a new year and a lot of behind the scene reworking this site and rethinking its new objective. We have been working on a redesign. We get a lot of traffic from countries besides the US. Some of these countries don't have the broadband we have grown accustome to in the United States of America. We don't have bandwidth limitations, Our ISP's don't get charged for it like they charge the ones in Australia.

With this in mind and a few people that have complained that the site felt cluttered or took to long to load (about 5 seconds for me) I desided to give you a really slimmed down template because this site is not about selling you some fancy template or capturing business because of our flashy graphics or or flash embedded site, or sell you SEO services when we dont even SEO our site (not true, our site is pretty well SEO'ed) not to mention how much traffic we get but when you do have a site that has a high amount of visitors isnt it nice to be able to have faster page loads and deliver the content they are after without all these visual effects?

Some of these changes you may have noticed are additional languages, no more banners we now only use our own component Mafia Icons. We hope you like the changes we have spent the last 45 + days at the time of writing this article. We have also tied up with a Marketing Consultant out of San Francisco Ca.

Stay tuned for more content added soon and almost every Download on this new site has been updated with all new versions, If you have purchased any of them please contact us with PayPal transaction number at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and we will email you the new version for free. Mafia Icons is being redesigned a bit, We have a lite version thats free and Pro version. We are also really expanding the princables behind it and with another site are launching something a lot different that wont be **gasp** Joomla specific however the site and content will be Joomla driven, Just the module for it wont be just for Joomla, and will even plug into any site such as those folks that still hand code their sites.

Matthew Murphy

aka DrDigital

Details: Written by: Matthew Murphy; Category: Archive; Published: 15 September 2008; Hits: 48

So its been awhile since we did a blog entry, Mainly because we have been studying SEO and taking full advantage of your robots.txt to help get better results.

It came to our attention because we had all the SEF turned on, Google still was indexing none SEF urls.

We had 758 pages indexed. Now every day we are seeing pages vanish (thats our goal)

First off if you didnt know, Install xmap it generated a sitemap not only for your site but it gives you an xml built on the fly that can be submitted to google, yahoo, ask and msn and several other sites.

You can also add this to your robots.txt

Sitemap: http://www.joomlamafia.com/index.php?option=com_xmap&sitemap=1&view=xml&no_html=1

Whats this do? Every time a bot comes to your site it looks at robots.txt to know what not to index and what to index... It just found out first thing is all bots this applies to, heres my sitemap, heres all my pages!!! But if any of these links are present (which we know they are not because this is what all our viewers of our site get to see when they click sitemap link)

Next thing we added was

Disallow: index2.php

and then

Disallow: /component/content/article/* Disallow: /component/search/* Disallow: /component/*This keeps any component pages from getting indexed, as well as any search pages and the firt keeps the articles in none sef format from being indexed and causing double content.

How Can I Apply This To My Site?

Regularly check what kind of pages Google is indexing on your site and look for patterns. If there are a lot of PDF pages, or dozens of useless links from a particular component, you can act quickly to block them out with robots.txt. Use the site:mydomain.com search function or a tool such as WebCEO.com.

Among the most important things you can do is check your pages that are in Google's supplemental index. This is where you'll find lots of your low-quality pages, ripe for removal by robots.txt. If the pages don't contain useful information, dump them.

Originally the wildcard wasn't supported by robots.txt but that has since changed. Both Google and Yahoo now recognize it: Regularly check what kind of pages Google is indexing on your site and look for patterns.

If there are a lot of PDF pages, or dozens of useless links from a particular component, you can act quickly to block them out with robots.txt. Use the site:mydomain.com search function or a tool such as WebCEO.com.

Details: Written by: Matthew Murphy; Category: Archive; Published: 27 August 2008; Hits: 30

So today we get online and check our emails to find that out of the 5 people who have bought Mafia Icons 3 have disputed the transaction. One stating her never got it (I linked him to it in the dispute) Another said their was some sort of error in the transaction?

I am not some big company, In the past 2 months I've made maybe $500 from Joomla, I spent nearly $200 going to LinuxWorld San Francisco to help out at the Joomla Booth. All the money I do make off Joomla I put into my two kids that are under the age of 2 for when they are older, College or whatever they need the money for once they are 18 years old. Google Ads, Affiliate Programs and software we make. $2.50, $5 and $30 was our price structor for the most part. $2.50 isnt a hole lot of money. We wanted to make it just help us. The server this site on would take us over 120 customers a month just to pay for hosting. We do not get 120 sales a month we dont even get 30.

So as of today, We have raised the sale price of Mafia Icons from $30 to $50, Once our new Icon system is completed their will be a $50 lite version and a $199 pro version. Pro Version will remove the Mafia Icons link and add credit card processing system

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