Solve the Most Common Joomla SEO Problem

Good Call...

I did a post on it some time ago:
http://www.pathos-seo.com/joom...-stuffing/

Mabye your post will bring more people to look at this issue...

Best solution to my knowledga is the SEF Patch, still hoping this will be resolved with the next release.

Hey Steve,

This certainly saves a lot of time afer upgrading Joomla and having to retype the site global tags and keywrods.

Just curious ... what are your thoughts on components like the met-keyword generator?

Cheers Anthony.

Thanks, this resolve my situation

Hi.
I have a problem with the SEF Patch.... I added some description and keywords on a menu and it didt work.
Any Ideas?

The menu is linking to a Phoca Gallery category.
Thanks
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If your Joomla! site is mainly article based, one solution is to populate your articles with meta description tags. If you have shell access to your server, one possible tool is a perl script that connects to Joomla! 1.5 database and generates the tags automatically based on article contents. It can be found here:

http://dist.epipe.com/joomla/perl/

Hello,

I have this problem. Let's say I remove the Global metadescription, but then, how can I manually set the description to the menu items (not to content). There is no meta description field when creating or editiong a menu item (like a new Articles Category / Blog style). Do I really have to install some patch for this?

Hello everybody! My solution for categories was SEO Simple plugin. But first you should write descriptions for category items and make them appear on the page when you click menu. All of that is through Preferences of Menu and Category Edit.
Everything works great, but few pages still have troubles. Sitemap page doesn't have any description, so SEO Simple doesn't get it. Even when I placed description into the php file manually, SEO Simple doesn't load it up. I don't know what can it be, otherwise it works great. Search for it at extensions.joomla.org

Hi,

I am creating a new site in Joomla 1.5.8 and I've remove the global meta keywords and descriptions as suggested above and put unique ones in each article I've created but is there a way to add meta keywords and descriptions into pages using components?

i.e. I'm using a component called ALFContact as a simple contact us form but the component doesn't seem to give options to add the meta keywords & description. Is this does somewhere else or do I just have to leave that page as having no keywords & description?

Many Thanks
Chris Shennan

If I delete the global description and keywords, where should I put the info related to the main page? I need the description and the keyword at least on the front page.

Thanks

I just wrote a message and it just disappeared.... the same happened in other article three days ago

I have sucessfully created XAMPP and ecllipse then joomla.but the problem is ecllipse should not applied for php and xml patches.so please send to my mail-id if anybody knows.then one more doubt how to change the templtes and codings?

I just checked my site (using Joomla 1.5.9), and when I have keywords and description specified in my article, only those appear in the page source. However, on articles where I don't have keywords and description, the page source shows the Global keywords and description.

Is this a problem? If so, I'll delete the Global information, but like "Tech news maniac" posted above, how do you enter metadata for menu items?

Does anyone know of any extension for joomla to handle meta descriptions?

This is for my Weddings Abroad site.

Have a look through these for a meta data handler for joomla.

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/seo-&-metadata

Yes i agree with that. Meta keywords and description in global configuration settings is suck. Today I've found that i've make a mistake by filling the global configuration meta keyword and description

im so sad i did this wrong the last 1 year. i am now searching a bridge to jump from cause seo is the only thing in my life worthful.

Now that we have made the jump from static sites to dynamic site like Joomla, we are going through a learning curve on optimizing our site designs. Thanks for the Good tip.

Our sysfix.co.uk webpage is not taking meta data from an article. So now - the front page has no meta description or keywords. I think not entering seo for global settings is going to cause an issue for quite a lot of people.

tools like artio joomSEF can help, as long as you remove their link at the bottom of the page! i've used on some of the sites ive developed for www.roxx.co.uk

ok, how to avoid this problem?
I want to rank higher for many keywords, Also I must use the same set of keywords
thanks

Our website is having problems after removing the global meta tags. Is there a way to have front page meta just like articles?

After lots of head scratching - I've solved it.

You need to go into the menu/main menu and change the home link from front page blog layout to article layout. You can then use the meta description of the article to produce front page meta.

Only useful to those wanting to display one article on the front page.

I couldn't make the changes in the admin, I had to go to the code and make the changes in dreamweaver. Make sure that you don't just erase everything and leave it blank because your site will go down. Replace what is there with a single quote, then a space, then a single quote, and then a semicolon. here is the format: ' ';
Once you make that change the meta desc is sourced from the individual article meta descriptions found on the bottom right of each article under the expandable box labeled "meta information"
Thanks to IT Support for the lead info.