Last weekend I was invited by the Hungarian community for their second Joomladay. In 2007 I already had the pleasure to be at their first event in the role of Joomla! project manager, back then I gave one of my now almost famous 'Joomla! To Infinity and Beyond' talks. People must have liked it because this year they asked me to give not one but two presentations ! One about search engine optimization for Joomla! 1.5 and one about Nooku, the multi-lingual component we are working on.
In my presentation about SEO I tried to explain that search engine optimization isn't black magic. It's fairly trivial and something everybody can do it just takes time and effort. I explained a bit how keyword targeting works and used Nooku.org as an example. I also explained why so called SEF extensions are not needed anymore with Joomla! 1.5 and why they can do more damage then good. But that's a topic for another blog post.
At the end of the day and to my surprise I received a life time honorary membership of the Hungarian User Association as an appreciation for my help with starting up the Hungarian association and setting up their new community at joomla.org.hu.
Finally, a big thanks goes to Tibor, Annamari, and Tamás who I'm proud to call my friends, for the invitation and for the great hospitality. You guys did an excellent job organizing your second Joomladay. I'm already looking forward to next year.
Pictures of the event can be found on flickr and for our Hungarian readers : a full write-up of the Joomladay can be found on the Hungarian PC World Online site.
