One of the main problems with Joomla's built-in SEO is that there are lots of "gaps" where various components don't provide the opportunity to set the browser title, and meta descriptions and keywords.

(Note: Google has announced officially that Meta Keywords are NOT used to influence search rankings, see http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/keywords-meta-tag-in-web-search/ )

e.g. on a category "blog" or "list" page there's no place to add these important bits of SEO information, even though individual article pages *do* have a place to set it.

TagMeta comes to the rescue and allows you to set browser title etc for absolutely ANY URL that's used on your site, including the front page.

It's great to be able to view all the meta information for all the pages that you have set it on, in one place. You could even use this to set the meta information for individual articles rather than setting it in the article itself, but you can do it either way.

Something I found out the hard way, as someone else pointed out in an earlier review, is that when you enter the URLs for matching, that the URLs use "regex" syntax, and also don't have "http://" in front of them.

So, if you want to match an exact URL you need to put ^ in front of it, and $ at the end of it, and don't forget the leading slash... like this:

^/forums$

If you just put "forums" as the URL, then this rule would match any URL that contained the word "forums" in it, e.g. you might have an article with that in the title and therefore URL. So the ^ and $ "anchor" the start and the end of the string so that it doesn't do a substring match.

Therefore for the front page, the best URL to use is ^/$ which will match only the very front page and nothing else.

It would be great to have an option when you are creating each rule, to use regexes, or "starts with", or "contains", or "matches exactly". That would make it a lot easier for most users who don't need the power of the regexes.

As someone else mentioned, some characters in URLs need to to have "\" in front of them in order to work, most notably "?". There are others too, like "." that otherwise actually matches *any* character, not just a dot.

I was using author's other extension REDJ. An amazing component, now i tried this one and this is also excellent.
Thank you

Worked perfectly, Thanks for the notes in the reviews from others,
I was able to download, install, actavite plugin, go to componet add page(not full url) /page-name
refresh page and view source Done!

Thanks

OMG thank you so much for this plugin! I've been spending forever trying to make Joomla accept a custom meta description for the frontpage (which is pretty much THE essential page for SEO). And then I found this plugin and all my problems were pretty much instantly solved!

Plus, I can finally opt out of odp descriptions (a noydir option is still missing though) and play around with the follow/nofollow, index/noindex settings. An essential SEO plugin!


(oh, and for the negative reviewer below who couldn't work out how to use Tag Meta on the frontpage - it's easy, just type "/" as the URI and hey presto!)

Works well and does the job!
Only drawback, if you have sites with hundreds of pages, it would be a long winded task to change every one.
I was looking for something to just enter the meta title in each article, there must be a quicker way............

This is my first review, but i wanted to help others who are confused about this extension like i was.

Quick How To:

Install plugin (enable it)

Install component (you dont have to link a menu item to the component)

Go to the component and now enter in the URL. This doesn't work by putting the full URL. for me, i have a HOME , CATEGORIES, etc pages

So instead of putting the URL in the component i used:

/home

or

/categories

and now whatever meta tag that you put in will show up, go refresh your website page and check the source and see your meta tag showing up.

for the programmer, i suggest adding a quick "how to" in the forum, because i went to check hoping there was one to help me figure that out but there was none.

Thanks for the plugin though works good when its set up correct.

I've been always wondering why we can't customize the meta title for each articles in Joomla. Thanks to this small component, simple and effective, it's possible now.

Thanks a lot :

Right away it was pretty easy to get this working on my site and now have titles and meta tags on pages that I could never get them on before with any other components.

One item of note: If you are working with a URL that contains a questions mark you must escape it.

ie:
url?task=advsearch&id=136

should look like this in tag meta:
url\?task=advsearch&id=136

Just add the backslash before the "?" and that does it!

This extension gives you full control of your meta data allowing you to have different keywords for
each page on your site. An absolute 'Must Have' for any site that wishes to have SEO friendly URL's
(that would be everyone, no?). The component is a little hard to work out for joomla novices, but once you get to grips with it it is quite simple.
The support from Luigi is the best support I have received from any service provider. He is a friendly and patient guy, who can be trusted in your 'Back End'!

Getting the right words in your page title description and keyword fields is vital for serious Search Engine Optimisation. This was the first plugin I found that actually performed the task and did it with stupid ease.
The only minor drawback I encountered was the lack of proper documentation. In practise that could easily be rectified with a single tool-tip as there is only one thing to do wrong.

DO NOT ADD FULL URL when adding pages. ie for www.yoursite.com/photographs you only add /photographs into the box.

Oh and a longer keyword field please!

hi i unstall this component

and i give the component url and give to it title

but there is no change title of component

so please how can i change my component title

Installed easily. Slight problem with configuration because I specified the entire URL instead of skipping the root portion . Great support. The developer was very helpful in helping me along the way. This is just what I needed. Thank you.

Installed with no problems at all. I've yet to find a page that I can't change the title, meta description, and meta keywords for. Seamless and using to use once you figure it out. However, there are tricks to using this mod. You must use /*$ at the end of each URI to keep the title/meta data specific to that article or page. Otherwise all the descending pages will get the same tags. For example /pageone/*$ and then go /pageone/health/*$ and so on. This keeps each page data unique. If you don't mind descendants of a category or section having the same data, then simple type /pageone. Thanks for a great mod!!

This product works great right after installation and does what it says. The plug-in author is VERY active, responsive and willing to help if you ask for it in the forums. Also works well with other SEF extensions. Nice job!

Tag Meta doesn't work for the home page. It works perfectly for every other page but it refused to recognize index.php or home.html. I cannot use this because it won't work on the home page, the most essential of all pages for SEO results.

Just wanted to get rid of the generator tag and add site name to each title. Talk about easy, quick ....thanks. Goes on all my installations now.

After trying out other extensions to have unique meta tags and page title for each page of website, this extension was the only one which meet up to the expectations.

It really works well! Moreover developers support is is quick to respond your queries. If we can see this feature by the side of article or some other way it would be great in handling meta management for hundreds of articles.

It is some time sens i search for a component like this. It make a very good job till now after 2-3 hours of tests.

Of all the Metadata extensions I've tried, this one was the most painless for simply adding Title, Keywords, and Description. The extra option of disabling the generator metadata is nice, as well. I was able to use it right away with no hidden tweaks necessary.

There are a few things that would improve this extension in future releases:

- increase the field limits for title, keyword, and description (I find customers still wanting very long entries here)

- add the ability to copy/clone items into new ones (many times the metadata is very similar for pages and this would save much time!)

- add the ability to create the URI based on a 'point and click' selection of articles, sections, categories, etc.

This is a simple straightforward extension, very easy to set up. Excellent work. Fills in a huge gap in default Joomla set up. With this extension you can finally set your SEO meta in sections and categories, as well as component pages. Works with Joomfish sites as well. Thank you very much for this must-have.