Getting a new website found is increasingly difficult. Competition is fierce. It's a lot like playing pool in that it's more about finesse than brute force.

I don't offer search engine optimization (SEO) as a paid service. It's important for me to be really good at one thing and Joomla is it. HOWEVER! I am pretty good at SEO. My own site comes up #3 out of 11.5 million results if you Google "joomla web design". I will tell you this was no easy task and it took a long time. If you are willing and dedicate the time, effort and a little money, I'll tell you everything I know about how to get your site up in the search results.

I recently found 18 websites who's owners had blatantly plagiarized my site. Most were word-for-word, a few loose derivatives, 3 even copied my “About Us” information for theirs. That boggles the mind. How can you not know enough about yourself that you have to  copy someone else's information?

Last night I got one of those feelings to do something I don't normally do. There's a little voice in the back of your head that says “you should check this out.”  My little voice was saying that I should check to see if anyone has been infringing on my copyrighted text and sure enough I found scads!!!

This article will explain what you can do if this happens to you.

Keyword density is the number of times a keyword or phrase appears on your web page compared to the total number of words measured in percentage. Keyword density can be used as a factor in determining whether a web page is relevant to a specified keyword or keyword phrase in the world of search engine optimization.

The 2011 Open Source CMS Award Overall Winner

1. Joomla!
2. Drupal
3. Plone

Packt Publishingannounced the winner of the best Open Source CMS and Joomla! has won again. Historically, this a heated competition between Joomla!, Drupal and Plone. 2011's results are a repeat of 2006.