SEO Creare are referencing Top SEO’s – which I think is a good enough reason for it to be illegitimate within itself. Secondly, the reviews attached to Creare on Top SEOs look somewhat suspect in any case.

In Just Search’s case – anyone can find a bunch of good reviews and chuck them on their website. The average searcher doesn’t know anything about schema.org and will assume that the stars are a combined independent view of the company. If what Just Search is doing is legitimate then what stops everyone from doing this – what value will rich snippets have if everyone has 5/5?

And yet, they ARE Joomla. In the business world, what you say might make sense but not in a decentralized project (project, not company) such as Joomla! The “not affiliated” marks is legal wording you have to print if you use a domain name with ‘joomla’ in it. You get authorization to do that from opensourcematters.org, the trademark holder.

To put it an other way, Dave, and most of the people who commented here, seem to assume that joomla.org is the representative body for Joomla, the authoritative one, so to speak. It is not. It’s one of the Joomla! project sites, while of course being the largest and most prominent. If there is one such authoritative body, that’s opensourcematters.org, the non-profit holding Joomla! project IP rights, but even that is not true, as OSM only handle legal and financial matters, not the technical side of thinkgs, or community management.

Most (some may slip through) of those sites have resquested authorizations to operate (from opensourcematters.org), and provide the official localized version of Joomla for a language. They indeed are the per countries arms of the Joomla! project.

I did understand Daves’s question the same as you, that is joomla.org did something wrong because they should be ahead of “local” sites. Knowing a bit of the project, I disagree with that statement, so indeed it’ll be interesting to see what the exact issue Dave is considering here.

Cheers

Disclaimer: These are my personal opinions and thoughts about the Joomla! project, I’m not speaking on behalf of the project. While of course, you’d have a hard time finding someone actually speaking for the project, due to its decentralized nature

The way I look at it, if Dave asks a question like this, the answer can’t be quite as simple as ‘they didn’t buy the local TLDs’ though. The question is also not ‘why are these local TLDs ranking tops, but “what did joomla do wrong?”‘, which implies Dave knows they did something wrong, and will tell us shortly…

@Max I’d probably give the organizations a break on not picking up the regional domain names. I don’t think of any them ever though their projects would become as popular as they did. Now that they are there’s little to no chance that any of them will be buying domains. Joomla, Drupal and WordPress all operate on shoestring budgets with better things to spend their money on.

Unless ofc you assume that joomla.fr, joomla.co.uk, joomla.de,etc are NOT Joomla – which is incorrect.

Rgds

Perhaps Google is penalizing for what would clearly be a devalued onsite experience….(incuding a back click to then choose the real joomla.org