The Weeblr Blasts: A Joomla SEO podcast Yannick Gaultier

This episode is about a pressing issue for many Joomla 3 website owners who use either of the JoomSEF or MijoSEF SEF URLs extensions. As neither have a Joomla 4 version, upgrading to Joomla 4 means losing:


SEF URLs, especially custom onesc
custom page titles and meta description
custom redirects

Losing all SEF URLs is particularly catastrophic as it means losing all rankings in Google and other search engines. At best, with a successful set of redirects, the traffic loss can be limited to a few weeks.

But there's a solution for this, using sh404SEF and its JoomSEF/MijoSEF importer. While sh404SEF itself is of course not Joomla 4-compatible, once you have it, it's easy to transition to 4SEF + 4SEO.

And these can work both on Joomla 3 and 4 transparently. 

So upgrading JoomSEF/MijoSEF sites to Joomla 4 is not exactly straightforward, but it's not that hard either, and most importantly does not require extensive or technical manual work.

Find all the podcasts details on the linked blog post.

Useful links: 


4SEF, SEF URLs for Joomla 3 & 4
4SEO, all-in-one SEO extension for Joomla 3&4

 

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I like podcasts, so much that we made 4Podcast to help you run your own podcast(s) using just your Joomla website. Most of the podcasts I listen to are tech and SEO oriented, so I figured it would be a good idea to share them here.

While only one is Joomla-specific, they certainly explore topics that most Joomla website developers and owners should find of interest.

Find all the podcasts details on the linked blog post.

Useful links: 


4Podcast, fully-featured podcasting for Joomla 3 & 4
Search With Candour
SEO 101
Search Off the Record
The SEO Rant
The Recipe For SEO Success Show
Search News You Can Use - SEO Podcast with Marie Haynes
Serp's Up
The MastermindWeb podcast

 

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We've been busy over the last couple of months adding several new features to 4SEO to make it both easier to use and extend its Search Engines Optimization capabilities to help you get more traffic.

Let's go over 4SEO version 4.5.0 main new features and changes.

Useful links: 


4SEF, All-in-one SEO extension for Joomla 3&4
4SEO Documentation

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This is the day. After a long, much longer than I hoped, 4SEF beta testing period, we're officially releasing today 4SEF, our latest SEF URLs for Joomla 3 and 4 extension. 

But that's not all, today is double-released day: 4Podcast lets you very simply run a fully featured podcast with only standard Joomla categories, articles and a dedicated custom field. It's released today at the same time as 4SEF and we'll have a launch discount period, listen on for all details.

Useful link: 


4SEF, SEF URLs for Joomla 3&4 (Documentation)
4Podcast: fully-featured podcast for Joomla 3&4 (Documentation)
4Video: SEO-compatible video player

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We just had a support question regarding how to evaluate and use 4SEO real Core Web Vitals (CWV) measurement, and after replying to it, I thought this might be a good topic to talk about, again. The question was similar to: 


4SEO  reports a bad Core Web Vitals score for many pages but common online speed test tools give me a perfect score. What's going on here?


There's still a bit of confusion on how Core Web Vitals are used by Google, how important they are (hint: not that much) and how to use the numbers provided, so here is a bit more information on:


What are Core Web Vitals?
How does Google measure them?
Do they matter for SEO and how much?

Useful link: A July 2021 detailed video explaining how Core Web Vitals work

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A quick round-up of the two major features added to 4SEO over the summer:


generalized usage of Joomla custom fields 
a full integration with Google Search Console

 

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