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SEO & Metadata Show All Developer's Extensions
SEOSimple Pluginplugin
Rating
19 votes
Developer:Dao By Design/Ryan McLaughlin Version:1.3 (Updated 39 days ago)
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Compatibility:Compatible with Joomla! 1.5 Native
Views: 12,782 License:GPLv2.0
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31
Type:Non-Commercial
Date Added:Feb 10, 2008
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SEOSimple
This simple Joomla 1.5 plugin simply takes the starting chunk of text from the page’s content and applies that as the value for the meta description tag in the page’s head. Search engines often use a Web page’s meta description in the SERPs, and as such it is important that these meta descriptions have relevant text related to the page’s content.

New features in SEOSimple (new since autoMetaDescSEO):
** Ability to customize how the front page meta description is handled. You can now chose between having it auto generated based on the front page's content, or using the default Joomla site-wide meta desc.
** HTML page title configuration. Set your page titles in three different ways:
1. [CONTENT TITLE] | [SITE NAME]
2. [SITE NAME] | [CONTENT TITLE]
3. [CONTENT TITLE] (Joomla 1.5 default)
You can also customize what the separator is (in this ex. it's a pipe, can be any character).

** Additionally, you can customize the front page of your site's title tag to display a custom string. So rather than just have:
Home | [SITE NAME] -or- Front Page | [SITE NAME]

You can have one of four different layouts:
[a custom string] | [SITE NAME]
[SITE NAME] | [a custom string]
[a custom string]
[SITE NAME]

All feedback is greatly appreciated and will go towards making future versions even better. Enjoy!

** History **
v1.0 - April 28/08 - This project was formerly called autoMetaDescSEO, but as new features were added, the name didn't really fit (did it ever? man, bad name) and so it was retitled and reversioned starting at 1.0.

v1.1 - July 6/08 - A quick release to add some additional front-page title functionality.

v1.2 - July 25/08 - Another maintenance release to add better support for auto-generated meta descriptions on Section and Category pages. Also features better UTF-8 support and description word wrapping.

v1.3 - September 4/08 - Put in some error checking for the PHP4 bug that was hitting users with the old PHP4 engine on their servers (note: we still suggest you upgrade to PHP5 - not only will it solve the previous problem with this plugin, PHP5 is now four years into replacing PHP4, it's just time to make that switch).

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Simple and effective! by mblodau, August 11, 2008
Works out of the box and it gives quite a noticable boost to the search rankings.

Keep up the good work!


Excellent Tool!! by tvigar, August 7, 2008
This is one of 6 extensions that I always install on any joomla website!

Keeps SEO Simple and Effective!


Works great but problems with Cyrillics by Kursk, August 5, 2008
This extension fills in the gap in meta handling of such pages as category and section where Joomla setup doesn't allow you to enter any description.

It does have a single problem with UTF handling when it comes to Cyrillic characters, to wit it produces U+FFFD instead of the capital P.


Excellent! by gr8sale, July 20, 2008
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
Does exactly what it says it will do, uncomplicated and easy to use! Great extension!


Userful extension indeed by runaln, June 3, 2008
2 of 2 people find this review helpful:
I have been installing and testing SEOSimple today, and it is easy to install and configure. Furthermore, it does its job!

The author of this extension is absolutely right when he tell us to "write a keyword-rich summary in the first paragraph of the article". There I have pretty much more work to do to get my web site more SEO friendly!


What can I say? A life saver... by ITByTheSea, May 19, 2008
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
j/k

But seriously this is a great extension. Easy to install, easy to setup. Very flexible: you can use global description, 1.5 article description, or SEOSimple automatic description and combine that with either global keywords or article specific keywords.

Great job! Thanks!


Exactly what I wanted Joomla core to do! by web.dude, May 16, 2008
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
I will gladly let the module author's have credit off our site for delivering a product that enhances the core! Phenomenal addition to our not-for-profit site!


Cool by genc, February 10, 2008
4 of 4 people find this review helpful:
It does what it says...works cool.