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Install Virtuemart on Joomla!

1) Got to virtuemart.com and download the latest version

2) Once you have the Virtuemart package – Unzip it .

3)Go to your Joomla Admin page and click Components. In Joomla! 1.5 click Extensions # Install/Uninstall in the Top Menu.

4) You can use the first option –> Upload Package File and select the file ‘com_virtuemart_1.1.x.zip’.  Now click ‘Upload and Install’.

5) This should work, if this gives an error message or you were not able to install it  - Dont Worry, Joomla provides you other options.

6) Now, Upload [Cut/Copy] your  ‘com_virtuemart_1.1.x.zip’ into /media or /tmp folders on your Joomla! site.

7) Goto the third option on your Extension Manager –> Install from URL,  give the url to the file you have uploaded.

Ex: http://domainname.com/joomla/tmp/com_virtuemart_1.1.x.zip

Hit the INSTALL button.

9) VirtueMart should be installed now and you’ll see the Welcome Message Screen with some options.

If this message appears on your screen, you have successfully installed Virtuemart

How not to do a website competative analysis

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Fourteenth E-Webstyle.com SEO Podcast April 10th 2009.  First page of Transcription

Chris Burres: Hi, welcome to the unknown secrets of SEO podcast.

Paul Hanson: Yes, thank you for joining us once again for another fun-filled edition of our SCO podcast.

Chris Burres: I think I left out E-Webstyle from our title there.

Paul Hanson: Oh yeah. By the way, we are E-Webstyle.

Chris Burres: I am Chris Burres, the owner of E-Webstyle.

Paul Hanson: And this is Paul Hanson, sales manager of E-Webstyle.

Chris Burres: We have a wonderful fun-filled podcast for you today. You guys are going to love it. We’ve got lots of information. We’re making it all up on the fly today, is that right Paul?

Paul Hanson: Yeah, that is right. So what are we going to talk about and why today?

Chris Burres: Well, we didn’t select a new source today. Is there any piece of news that you’re going to talk about?

Paul Hanson: Oh, we don’t have a title.

Chris Burres: You know, here’s something very interesting. I just learned from a very good friend of mine, it’s Easter Friday. We’re the only people in here.

Paul Hanson: That’s right.

Chris Burres: And it turns out apparently that Easter comes from Ishtar.

Paul Hanson: I didn’t know that.

Chris Burres: The phrase Ishtar, goddess of fertility, etc.

Paul Hanson: Oh, I’ve heard of the goddess of fertility.

Chris Burres: Right, and the name Ishtar, Easter.

Paul Hanson: Easter, okay, makes sense.

Chris Burres: Easter, Ishtar, I just thought that was pretty cool. So, this will be our Ishtar podcast.

Paul Hanson: Easter podcast. Ishtar, Easter podcast. What kind of word is Ishtar?

Chris Burres: Ishtar is Eastern.

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Importance of Keyword Prominence and SEO

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Fourteenth E-Webstyle.com SEO Podcast April 10th 2009.  Second page of Transcription

Chris Burres: It doesn’t equal the call to action. Maybe sales isn’t your goal or maybe you just want people to sign up and get a free membership or whatever your goal is, if you’ve got position one or five, I’m telling you, the websites that is better put together that has clear calls to action that is less distracting, but still very informative, is the one that’s going to get better results.

Paul Hanson: Of course. I’d like to…I’m sure everyone has heard the phrase, if you’ve built it. You can’t just build a website and expect traffic, and I’m going to borrow from that. Just because you’re in the best position doesn’t mean they’re going to convert to a sale or do…you’re not going to get a goal or a new assignment…

Chris Burres: Call to action or achieved. Yeah. That is a great example because it isn’t just about traffic. We want to work towards traffic, and then, we start the process on day one, but we specifically meet with our clients on a regular basis to see now you’ve got great search engine placement, and you’re realizing in your reports that great search engine placement and the traffic that it’s bringing, let’s see what we can do with that traffic.

So that’s where we really get into competitive analysis, but typically, competitive analysis has more to do with why are you on the first page of Google, or why are they typically in this scenario? Why are they on the first page and you’re not?

Paul Hanson: And what are they doing that I’m not doing? What are they doing that’s helping them? And if I’m not doing it, let me do it so I can beat them.

Chris Burres: Exactly, and there’s a couple of things that you’re going to look at. You want to pull up reports on what are inbound links. How many inbound links today I have had? What are the values of those inbound links? And that’s specifically for Google. We also want to look at…there’s a lot of tools out there. There’s a whole lot.

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Stay out of the Supplimental and Keyword Stuffing

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Fourteenth E-Webstyle.com SEO Podcast April 10th 2009.  Third page of Transcription

Paul Hanson: You know, the things, it’s a piggyback while we’re on the keywords, I like the tool. I know we’ve used so many I forget which is which, but being able to look at your particular keyword that you’re interested in and find out who the major player is, I think it’s on one of these screens.

Chris Burres: Oh yeah.

Paul Hanson: You can actually go and look up okay for plumber, Houston. Who are the major players? Who’s in first position? Who’s in second and who’s in third, and where am I? There, yeah, that’s it.

Chris Burres: That was it.

Paul Hanson: Okay.

Chris Burres: Who was it until we switched it, but I think that’s a great tool because then, you can find out who are the players for this particular keyword. You know the keywords. You’ve done your research by this point. You know which ones are important to you, which ones you’re going to go after.

Okay, who are the players for this particular keyword phrases, and then now, you can kind of go back and do analysis on their sites, and see, okay, what is his keyword frequency? Does he have it in a [0:19:43]? You can, I guess, do your film work and watch the film on his website, and see what’s he doing right, and potentially, not doing correct.

But I think that is a great tool just to be able to look and see who the major players are for this particular keywords because they’re obviously doing…if the guys are doing first page for that keyword, they’re obviously doing something right. I personally just don’t think that to get on the first page for big terms happens by accident.

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Making Money with Googles Keyword Selector Tool

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Thirteenth E-Webstyle.com SEO Podcast March 27th 2009.  First page of Transcription

Chris: Hi, welcome to the Unknown Secrets to SEO E-Webstyle podcast.

Paul: Yes, thanks for joining in, in another fun filled edition of our SEO podcast.

Chris: My name is Chris Burres, owner of E-Webstyle.

Paul: And this is Paul Hanson, sales manager at E-Webstyle.

Chris: Just a reminder, we should have another podcast. This is our killer web design and development podcast.

Paul: This is our killer web design and development podcast.

Chris: Taking ‘em out, shooting ‘em down, mowing ‘em down. That should be available on iTunes soon. We’re working on giving those out. We have a bunch of episodes already prepared. Go ahead and check that out. Today is our killer Komodo.

Paul: Why are we having a killer Komodo podcast today?

Chris: The Komodo dragon, the really big dragon. Apparently, there was some movie with Marlon Brando…

Paul: Oh yeah, The Freshman … him and Matthew Broderick about that Komodo. It was a good movie.

Chris: I like that pretty much. Maybe we should sell plates.

Paul: $5,000 plates of Komodo dragon coming up.

Chris: And then we just kind of parade the dragon by and serve them Popeye’s. This is kind of spicy.

Paul: Fried Komodo dragon.

Chris: Apparently, a Komodo dragon, a guy in Indonesia was on a forbidden island. It was forbidden because…

Paul: There is probably a good reason.

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Page 1 is Easy with Googles Keyword Tool

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Thirteenth E-Webstyle.com SEO Podcast March 27th 2009.  Second page of Transcription

Paul: And they’re making money. Hey, let’s put a tool out there to increase the spend that people have. Having said that, it is a great tool. It does have some really powerful things. It’s pretty simple and it has some neat features. You can actually click … there’s two selections on the far left. One of them is descriptive words or phrases and this where you might type in keywords that you already have or if you’re really novice and don’t really know how to break down your keywords, you might type in “find the plumber” which is not how most would actually … not the words that most people would put into Google to find a plumber, but it might be what you put in there. Putting “find a plumber” and it will come up with some interesting phrases. Additionally, on the left, there is a website content. If you already have your website up, maybe you put it up and you’re happy with the content and now you’re like, okay well I don’t really understand how I convert my content into keywords and understand what keywords are of any value. You can click that and then put it into your website and it will actually parse your website and look for relevant keywords. That’s a pretty nifty tool. Then of course it’s got what’s called a capture or character recognition or whatever because they don’t want … they’re called bots but really they don’t want programs continually hitting this page and stealing information from it, etc. We can actually type in “find the plumber”.

Chris: We can actually type in something else, what does HVAC. Let’s just do “find the plumber” because that’s going to get a little too complicated. Let me put in my captcha symbol here, if I can understand it. Sometimes those captchas, you’re like, what is that letter.

Paul: A lot of times.

Chris: And then you’re like, apparently I got it wrong, let me try again. I just put in “find the plumber” and put up relevant terms. What it does on the top, it’s the most relevant to what Government computers use to find information on Joe the plumber. That’s an interesting selection keyword.

Paul: That is actually a keyword phrase.

Chris: Everyone they think of Joe the plumber and they go, let me go over and type government computers use to find information on Joe on the plumber.

Paul: I give up.

Chris: Remember a software. No one is actually looking at this going, yeah no one ever typed that. The scary part of this is somebody did type it.

Paul: Remember in the last podcast, we were looking at terms that people search and found.

Chris: There are some pretty whacky terms out there.

Paul: You’re definitely right about that.

Chris: In this particular case, find the plumber, find Joe the plumber, there’s about five on the top and this is kind of the most relevant why Google considers the most relevant to exactly what you typed in. It says “not enough data”, and what that really means is that not that many people search those particular keywords. I am happy to find out that I was right. Most people don’t type in find … I put “the plumber” and that’s kind of weird. So maybe “a plumber” would be more relevant. In fact, let’s go ahead and change that “the” to “a”. In fact, Google might even skip those small letters anyway, so it probably won’t matter. The nice thing is that once you’ve done that captcha image recognition thing once, you don’t have to keep doing it over and over again. This is a little more relevant. We got rid of our really long, long term. “The plumber” was keying on the phrase “Joe the plumber” which is of course in the press a lot after the election. Now we can see, “find a plumber”. There are about 2,900 searches for that in the month of February. This is a term that we would probably not …. A typical regional plumber we would not recommend that they even try and get that term specifically because they’d be wasting a lot of effort on getting “find the plumber” because…

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Google Layoffs and E-Webstyle Confidence

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Thirteenth E-Webstyle.com SEO Podcast March 27th 2009.  Third page of Transcription

Paul: The blue tarps?

Chris: Yeah. I think he’s a little lazy.

Paul: How long was that one, eight months ago?

Chris: Exactly. But he does still have a tarp on it. People are still doing more roofing now than they were prior to the hurricane. Those are kind of trends that are need to see and then with the plumber … I just went backwards out of it.

Paul: Here’s a random question somebody might … if you’re kind of new SEO you’re probably thinking, is this the only way to find keywords? Is this the only keyword selector tool out there?

Chris: The answer is no. You can come call us. We’ll help you find them. We’ll use this tool for you. No, there are other keyword tools.

Paul: I just like this one the most. With the other ones, I just personally like Google’s keywords the most.

Chris: I think I sent towards one called good keywords. They use the overture. There used to be an overture website and then that was kind of taken down. You could still sometimes find it or if you had a bookmark you could get to it. The good keywords software was actually tied in to it. That’s kind of why Google Adwords has the captcha so that somebody can’t write a piece of software that just ties in to their data and then you start spreading all that software everywhere or everyone is using it and Google is getting slammed and really not getting any of the benefits. But yeah, there are still other tools out there. One of the things I was really thinking when I was trying to find and would probably more of a trend on AC or HVAC specific terms which is we’ll see a spike in the summer.

Paul: In the south you will.

Chris: Actually anywhere. HVAC might be heating, so if it’s air conditioner repair guy, no matter where you are in the country if it’s out in the winter, you don’t really care and you may even don’t know. Then if it’s out in the summer, those calls will spike and you’re going to go to your computer and you type in AC repair guy. You can see trends like that on this. That is pretty cool, lots of information. It also has a nice column, highest volume occurred so you can actually know when people did the most searches in the year for a particular term. I’m not seeing anything here of any particular interest but they all seem to have a low spot right there, don’t they.

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