 You can improve the SEO settings of Joomla 1.5 with this free SEO patch for Joomla 1.5. This patch solves the issues in regards of the settings within the html head section of your html page. The patch allows you to gain fully control over the META and title settings in the http header settings in Joomla 1.5 generated pages. Although the Joomla 1.5 release offers a very good application / CMS framework the basics of the framework is not optimized to perform optimal SEO. Although some improvements are made in regards to the page titles is still lacks of customized titles and other SEO settings. From SEO perspective you will have no full control over the SEO settings in the Joomla generated pages. This free patch solves this issues for the 1.5 release.
Update 13-08-2008: available for Joomla 1.5.6 stable version
Update 28-07-2008: available for Joomla 1.5.5 stable version
Update 09-07-2008: available for Joomla 1.5.4 stable version
Update 24-04-2008: available for Joomla 1.5.3 stable version
Update 08-04-2008: available for Joomla 1.5.2 stable version
Update 13-02-2008: available for Joomla 1.5.1 stable version
Update 26-01-2008: available for Joomla 1.5 stable version
Note: corrected also the double META fields within the article pages for Joomla 1.5.3.
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| Good, but with one big bug by robert_1.0, September 14, 2008 |
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1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
This is a good extension. But there is one big bug in it. I have installed it on three joomla sites and on two of them I get the text "Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /public_html/mywebsite/components/com_content/views/frontpage/view.html.php on line 129" on the Frontpage.
This is very frustration and I had to manually go change view.html.php. I change line 129 from "foreach ( $field_array as $key => $val) {" to "/* foreach ( $field_array as $key => $val) */ {". I dont know the funktion of that line. Perhaps I have deleted some of the extentions function now.
There is also the following text above the news in the news page: "Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /public_html/mywebsite/components/com_content/views/category/view.html.php on line 142". So I have decided not to use the news. Please fix this bug so we can use this extension without hacking and ignoring the news. |
| small Problem with XHTML Markup by linux, August 25, 2008 |
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I uploaded the patch and it works! This is a very useful mod that adds a fully functional SEO manager into the Joomla 1.5.6 Core. The only issue I have is an error when I revalidated my XHTML.
Potential Issues
The following missing or conflicting information caused the validator to perform guesswork prior to validation. If the guess or fallback is incorrect, it may make validation results entirely incoherent. It is highly recommended to check these potential issues, and, if necessary, fix them and re-validate the document.
1. Warning No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8. None of the standards sources gave any information on the character encoding labeling for this document. Without encoding information it is impossible to reliably validate the document. As a fallback solution, the "UTF-8" encoding was used to read the content and attempt to perform the validation, but this is likely to fail for all non-trivial documents.
My XHTML was validating without errors before I copied the patch now it is NOT marked as XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| Great Extension by gototheframe, August 9, 2008 |
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Why is not included in the original Joomla Download?
This extension should be include in Joomla's Default installation files, it is a must for SEO professionals. I downloaded the zip file, uncompress it and then upload the files one by one. This is not a automatic install, you have to do it manual. Tested and works fine. Now I'm able to customize the tile, description, and keywords of any of the my webpages.
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| Excellent Script by thegman, June 29, 2008 |
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The script is easy to install and brings functionality to Joomla that should have been included in the DEFULT install!
[note:The script wont/cant be installed as a standard component. You need to extract it and upload it via FTP to the joomla site]
Keep up the great work guys and thanks again! |
| Hei by korb, May 15, 2008 |
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I've installed this patch, and I was hoping it will not destroy my instalation, because I already configured a 3RD party component that seem to work, even with VirtueMart 1.1.
BUT, no improvement. |
| Thanks by Unga Blancovic, April 26, 2008 |
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1 of 2 people find this review helpful:
It was simple to install and setup.
keep your work!! |
| DO NOT install - before doing this: by gero9mo, April 12, 2008 |
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2 of 4 people find this review helpful:
Delete all of your keywords and description info.
This SEF patch generates double description & keywords if you don't. And that is defenitely NOT SEO friendly...
The bug is reported in other reviews here. The forum has open threads that are totaly ignored at the site regarding this bug. This might of course be related to that they probably want to be paid for the support, maybe, i just gotta guess when they ignore the posts like this...
Imagine how much work there is installing this component if you got let's say 500 articles - omg
Not to forget that it ain't all that checks their html code to often. My guess is that as long as long as they see a nice url after installing this comp - they are pleased, not knowing that they got a cluster of keywords etc)
I am not rating this as Verry Poor based upon the code it self. Just because of the small issues that are not being handled at a profesional level - cause the bug is MAJOR.
I of course will rate this totaly different if this "on install issue" gets fixed. But after my first atempt and now looking forward to 4-5 hours of work fixing my keywords etc = i give this a Verry Poor rating so far. Owner's reply: The double META tags are solved now. Also the META tags will NOT be removed. |
| Awesome! by cloakeddog, April 11, 2008 |
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1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
First of all, I'd like to thank the author for his great work!
To describe this patch only 2 words are needed. It rocks!
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| great! (but need a fix for double tags) by rufuz, April 8, 2008 |
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1 of 2 people find this review helpful:
It is a great seo enhancement, a must if you care about search engine positioning.
It is easy to install and manage. Updates seems to be released quickly enough after a new j! fix is out. This matters from a security point of view.
There is one problem related to keywords and description metatags: You'll have double tags if you already have set up them prior to patch, and no way to get rid of those doubles until you don't uninstall the patch, delete every keyword and description and repatch. If you have lot of articles it could be a really annoying task. So, before patching try to clear your tags.
This is a known issue, well documented by users in their forum (even with no response by owners). It should be fixed or, at least, documented in installing instructions.
4 stars, but once properly fixed, consider them as 5!
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| Should have been included in Core by garyjaybrooks, March 30, 2008 |
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3 of 3 people find this review helpful:
It does exactly as it says it does. Makes SEO allot easier when your updating your pages. click and point changes within the writing sections of Joomla.
Software even allows you to modify the base XML file that your standard tags are derived from.
I hope he continues to develop on it and they get it built into the core of Joomla.
Great work on documenting how it works on your site and great work with the design.
My advice is not to complicate the Joomla 1.5 SEO. Just install this core enhancement and your well on your way to improving your rankings. |
| Fantastic! by admin.dre, February 14, 2008 |
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3 of 4 people find this review helpful:
The only question is - why isn't this just incorporated into the Joomla 1.5 framework? |
| Good job! by Roderick1, December 24, 2007 |
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2 of 3 people find this review helpful:
Again you guys did a great job! I can always count on you taking joomla to the next level in seo, simple and easy. |
| Awsome! by bugsbunny, December 21, 2007 |
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3 of 5 people find this review helpful:
I already was a big fan of the 1.0 SEO patch and I'm very happy with this new version for 1.5RC4.
Thanks very much!
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