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With an active Dutch community and an impressive guest list, Joomla! Netherlands 2010 announces to be an exciting event.

Almost 500 Joomla! professionals and members of the local community are expected to arrive in Utrecht, on 23-24 April. Among them, our team, represented by Alexandru Plapana and Alexandru Lamba.

Joomla! security presentation, by Alexandru Plapana

We have recently released a new Joomla! plugin, the RSFiles! System Plugin, that a

llows you to publish files and folders on a chosen page, whether the page includes text or is a 3rd party page.

It is rather easy to use:

• in the backend panel, choose the page where you want to publish the content of the file or folder.
• if you want to publish the entire content of the configured download folder, use the following syntax: {rsfiles }
• if you want to publish the content of a file, there is an extra thing that you must specify in the brackets - the path where the file is located.
  

   e.g.  If your file is "ipad.jpg", then you will write {rsfiles  images/ipad.jpg}

• if you want to publish the content of a specific folder, use the same syntax as you used for files (you must specify the path where the folder is located).
  

   e.g. If your folder is "images", then you will use {rsfiles  downloads/images/}

What do you expect ? Of course we value the opinions and feedbacks of ou

r clients - we have released RSMembership! revision 9 which comes with new features added and improved functionality:

• New user email texts are now configured in the RSMembership! language file.
  The reason this method was preferred over the Joomla standard user email is that if you were using automatic membership approval sometimes the link to the site was appended with the path to the Joomla administration panel that could confuse the end user.

• Share any type of content with memberships.
  As RSMembership! users already know, for each membership you were able to share files and folders. With the new revision, you can share Joomla! articles, categories, sections and links.

This article will answer to common questions about Joomla! sitemaps like :

• why use a sitemap?
• how to notify Google, Yahoo! and Bing about the generated sitemap?
• site verification
• sitemap updates

and at the end of the article you will find some recommendations for Joomla! sitemap generators.

Before answering to above questions, let's clarify the differences between the HTML sitemap and the XML sitemap.

Sitemaps help search engines to better understand the Joomla! site structure and also help crawlers to easier discover fresh content.

Generating your XML Sitemap for Joomla! has never been easier with RSSeo!

Enable canonicalization first

Before submitting the sitemap to search engines, enable canonicalization to avoid errors in sitemap.

Is this step important?

Canonicalization is active when a permanent redirect exists from mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com (or viceversa), so when a user types in the browser the name of your site without www in the front, he will be redirected to the www version.
If canonicalization is not enabled, both versions of the site will be indexed with AND without www, because search engines don't know which one to pick, decreasing your search engine rank.