SEOSimple
Version
2.1 (last update on Jan 28, 2012)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
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130
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
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127591
Date Added
10 February 2008
NOTE: This plugin generates the meta data "on the fly" when the page is loaded, it does not save the meta data to the content's meta data fields seen in the Joomla editor. These fields can then be used to override the auto-generated meta description generated by this plugin. To see the plugin at work, you must view your page's source in your browser.
** SEOSimple 2.0 Features **
** Ability to customize how the front page meta description is handled. You can choose between having it auto generated based on the front page's content, or using the default Joomla site-wide meta description.
** 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 |, but can be any character).
** Additionally, you can customize the front page of your site's title tag in a number of different ways (or not at all). Layouts include:
[Disable - Use Joomla Default]
[Custom Title] | [Site Title]
[Site Title] | [Custom Title]
[Custom Title]
[Site Title]
[Site Title] | [Default Title] *NEW*
[Default Title] | [Site Title] *NEW*
[Custom Title] | [Default Title] *NEW*
[Default Title] | [Custom Title] *NEW*
** *NEW in 2.0* We have added the ability to set your category pages to "noindex, follow" -- a common meta robots setting for such pages to avoid duplicate content penalties.
All feedback is greatly appreciated and will go towards making future versions even better. Enjoy!
There seems to be a bug in the plugin. The frontpage parameters don't work on a website with multi languages. I want to just leave to fontpage meta to the global config but the plugin just pulls the text from the homepage.
I think a multilanguage issue
I think a multilanguage issue
Just installed it, and think it's great.
Had to do some digging to know to view 'page source' to actually see the results. I was looking in the meta data fields at the article level.
Not sure if I missed something in the documentation, but if it's not there, would be good to add it (might be good to add this note to the description text at the plugin module).
Thanks for making this plugin freely available!
Had to do some digging to know to view 'page source' to actually see the results. I was looking in the meta data fields at the article level.
Not sure if I missed something in the documentation, but if it's not there, would be good to add it (might be good to add this note to the description text at the plugin module).
Thanks for making this plugin freely available!
Owner's reply
Hi Brad, thanks! And great point about being clearer regarding how the plugin works. I've adjusted the description text above to better reflect this and help avoid any confusion with the plugin's use.
This plugin works really nice. It does what the author says it does, thanks for sharing this useful tools to improve joomla in the SEO area.
Thank developer. This is most simple and effective SEO plugin for Joomla site. It done excellent job when rewrite meta description, meta content on the fly by grabbing site(article) title. Don't need to generate any meta information and import to database. Great idea, simple, effective - 5 star for this Plugin.
Joomla seo is very difficult unless someone is a programmer genius. Doing SEO is very difficult with it but this little plugin works wonders. SO I am not a programmer thus the rating for this is excellent 6 stars. Easy and painless. Self explanatory just by looking at it. Cheers
Nice extension but it's in conflict with K2.
I checked the source code before installing and after installing and activating.
The only change I could see was att the "generator" and the cange was from joonla to SEOSimple.
Title and description meta was the same before and after installing and activating.
So Im thinking this is a cheap way for the author to get free advertising for the extension and the webbsite!
Please correct me if Im wrong, and do tell me what this extension really do!
The only change I could see was att the "generator" and the cange was from joonla to SEOSimple.
Title and description meta was the same before and after installing and activating.
So Im thinking this is a cheap way for the author to get free advertising for the extension and the webbsite!
Please correct me if Im wrong, and do tell me what this extension really do!
Owner's reply
Hopefully you don't just install plugins without first asking yourself if you need them and then reading about how they work. The instructions for this plugin are clear, as are how it works. The credit meta (a useless piece of meta that serves little in the way of advertising) can easily be turned off via the plugin's options.
As for what it does -- it does what it says it does -- automatically generates meta descriptions on the fly for Joomla articles, saving users the need for manually entering meta descriptions for each article.
Seems like a great plugin. I am wondering though if the meta data gets applied to exiting content or just to new content created after installing. This isn't clear, and I don't yet see meta data on my old content items.
Owner's reply
Hi dmohr, the 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". It does not write anything to the articles themselves. It does this all dynamically when the page loads. Simply view the source of your page and you'll see it in the HEAD tags.
This is a super plug in, really does a nice job of detailing individual page info automatically. Don't forget to configure and enable one installed though.
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