| New Mambot to Add Headline Tags to Joomla |
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| Thursday, 20 September 2007 | |
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One of the most important SEO tactics is to wrap your page titles in headline tags such as <h1> and <h2>.
Unfortunately Joomla doesn't provide these out of the box and instead puts page titles inside a relatively meaningless table cell:
<td class="contentheading" width="100%">My Title</td>
There are some extensions that allow headline tags currently, including JoomSEO and sh404SEF. There are also some core hacks that achieve the same thing.
However, we needed a simple and easy way to apply headline tags to articles, without hacking the core and without utilizing any larger components. So Whats the Solution?
We created a stripped-down version of JoomSEO. JoomSEO is a useful mambot, but it comes with dozens of settings and it will take over your metadata. We removed all the extra features to produce a much simpler version called JoomSEOHeadings.
All it does is add headline tags to your articles. Nothing else. You have the choice of placing your titles in <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5> or <h6> tags. Click here to download JoomSEOHeadings. A Word of WarningNot all Joomla templates are setup to handle <h1> and <h2> because they are so infrequently used by Joomla. You may need to alter your CSS to avoid having super-sized page titles.
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Comments (5)
  written by David Towers, October 04, 2007
Is there a similar hack or plugin for Joomla 1.5? Ive searched all over and can't find it anywhere!
 written by Steve Burge, October 04, 2007
Hi David
Exactly the same need arose for me today and I couldn't find an existing hack. Sometime in the next few days I'm going to have to create one. Steve written by David Towers, October 06, 2007
It would be a great thing to do (to create one) as I've literally posted on about 5 forums about it and no-one has a hack... You'd be likely to get quite a bit of traffic in if you create a hack! Hehe! If you create one I'd love it!
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