Online Video Production Blog

Absolute Legend Luke Holt from the Morning Wake-Up on Melbourne radio station Light FM has been challenged by his collegues to rank for the phrase "absolute legend".  He has been working to improve the rankings for lightfm.com.au and has been implementing quite a bit of SEO work to make this happen.

I am happy to say that after implimenting SEO to his Joomla site he is starting to rank for alot of additional content on the site.  Previous to his campaign he only ranked for phrases related to the company name and not for internal content.  He is also getting all the shows to write content with more descriptive titles creating more phrases to rank for.

So lets hope he can meet the challenge and rank for absolute legend. He has made one error that I have told him about and by the time you read this it may have been changed.  He used the anchor text "Absolute Legend Google search challenge" in the footer of the whole site and as such ranks 4 & 5 in google au search for this phrase.  It shows the importance of choosing your anchor text, and for the matter <h1> phrases, correctly and loading them with the phrases you want to rank for.

Setting this site up has been very enlightening on a number of fronts.  I have previously worked on my wifes site www.dailydevotions.com.au building that in Joomla 1.0.  I used an excellent stats package there called JoomlaStats along with the obligitory  Google Analytics.  I cannot find  a component that comes close to the functionality of JoomlaStats for 1.5.  Unfortunately the 1.5 version is due Q2 2009 according to their site.

On another site I even tried using JoomlaStats in Legacy mode but it cause the site to crash.  I didnt pursue it.  Shame really, my mate Jim Stewart reminded me the other day that one of the benefits of JoomlaStats was its ability to tell you when bots came past for scrape, very handy when building (or re-building in this case) a new site.  I have missed it as I try to build an audience etc.  I am currently using Google Analytics and JoomlaWatch, not 100% happy, mainly cause I need some of their code on my site which displays a little icon at the bottom.

 I would like to try Woopra and have applied but as its in beta I may have to wait, I will also look at Counter.GD joomla counter & stats in time.