I have a Joomla 1.0 site and use mojoBlog. It’s been working out pretty well with the exception of SEF URLs and searching. I know this is because mojoBlog is a component and isn’t well developed yet. The SEF issue isn’t that big of a deal because Google still crawls the pages and people can find what I post. The searching has been a little weird.
I really like the included Joomla search module. It’s works great but I just realized it doesn’t return results for any of my blog posts. I had tried setting up Google search before, but it didn’t work too well. I then tried to set it up again today and was still having problems with it finding my blog posts. The weird thing is that if I do a normal Google search, go to the advanced options and search just my site, I can find blog posts.
I took the searchbox code Google provided and popped it into a module and created a static page for the search results. I also popped the provided search results code onto the static page. When I do a search with the module it goes to the static page, but doesn’t show any results, it just shows an empty search bar. Then when I type my search into the search bar on the static page, no results for blog posts.
Am I doing something wrong here? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: Turns out sh404SEF was trying to re-write the URL for the landing page. After I told it not to, everything worked fine.
I don’t know anything about the backend code for blogs. I do know one google trick though. If you limit a search, you need to remove any subdomain from the limited search. So you would want pass “searchterm site:branfeld.com” not “searchterm site:www.branfeld.com”
This will query all public pages on branfeld.com, including any that run on weird subdomains. (ww1., www2)
You might check and see if the code you’re using is including the subdomain or not.
I did do that because that’s what I have listed with Google analytics. Thanks for the tip though. I’m wondering if maybe the search box needs a separate page instead of being on a module.
A an user of the MojoBlog, but don’t know how long, is there a way to use it on Joomla 1.5??
Currently no solution for 1.5. Supposedly they’re working on updating it. The creator keeps posting dates where new stuff will be ready on his blog, but stuff is never done. I wouldn’t hold your breath.