Tag Meta

Introduction

Tag Meta allows to efficiently manage all site's meta information. With Tag Meta, as example, it is possible to set the tag 'title' or the meta tags (e.g. from the most common 'description', 'keywords', 'robots', as well as the recently 'content rights' and 'external reference') or link 'canonical' on any page, just specifying the URL or a part of it. This provides a swiss army knife to improve site positioning in SEO optimization. But Tag Meta also supports regular expressions in the matching rules and this allows to match a group of URLs with a single rule. In this way it is possible to manage metadata from a single control panel.

Multiple rules can be applied together, so if more than a single rule matches with the current URL, these are applied in cascade using the ordering set, except if a rule is declared as ‘last one’ (in this case the process stop).

And that’s not all. Tag Meta comes with support for macros. This means that meta information can be generated dynamically for each page.

To allow complex transformations for data to use as meta info there are the placeholders. Placeholders allow you to define a set of values where each value is associated and identified by a name and is used in the definition of other placeholders or in the definition of meta info (practically they are based on the same principle of the variables in programming languages).

With support for link 'canonical' it is possible to specify the preferred version of a set of pages with highly similar content. But there is still other, Tag Meta comes with support for an ontology database of synonyms, that allows to automatically generate and add new synonyms of existing keywords in any page.

The plugin, finally, has some useful options to set custom global information like Generator, Author, Copyright, or to set and align the tag ‘title’ and the meta tag ‘title’ in many ways.

Features:
- Support for tag 'title' and meta tag 'description', 'author', 'keywords', 'robots', 'content rights', and 'external reference' on each page
- Support for Robots options Index, Follow, Snippet, Archive, Odp, and Image Index
- Support for link 'canonical'
- Support for global meta tag 'generator'
- Possibility to add site name to tag 'title'
- Possibility to align meta tag 'title' with tag 'title'
- Possibility to preserve tag 'title' on each rule from global settings
- Support for global meta tag 'author'
- Support for global meta tag 'copyright'
- Possibility to add a note for each item
- Possibility to apply multiple matching rules
- Use of regular expressions into matching rules
- Case-sensitive option on the matching source URLs
- Request only option to match the full URL or just the REQUEST_URI part
- Decode URL option to decode URLs before to check if match with rule
- Last rule option to break application of matching rule
- Support for placeholders
- Use of macros to specify meta info (dynamic meta info, 45 macros)
- Ontology database for synonyms

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Finally, a Joomla SEO plugin that does what it's supposed to!

Thomas Furlong (1).
Posted on 10 August 2009

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!)

Good but limited

Nick Hughes (10).
Posted on 08 August 2009

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............

Quick How To

Chris (1).
Posted on 08 August 2009

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.

Simple and effective. Great job, thanks !

joomlafab (1).
Posted on 07 August 2009

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 :

Great component/plugin with great support

Samara (9).
Posted on 30 July 2009

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!

One of the 'Must Have' extensions-outstanding support

David Buck (1).
Posted on 21 July 2009

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'!

Probably the most vital SEO plugin for Joomla

Baron (1).
Posted on 16 July 2009

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!

Urgent

chandresh (1).
Posted on 09 July 2009

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

tag meta

Drugzoo Vinstone (1).
Posted on 29 June 2009

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.

Excellent! Joomla Tool!

Louis Kemler (4).
Posted on 20 May 2009

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!!

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