As a Web design professional, I am often asked if I can help with search engine optimization (SEO), to which I almost always say “not really”, and then spend 20 minutes typing out the information I am about to share.
The truth is, I am certain I could help with SEO, but more often than not I choose to avoid the arduous task of managing expectations when it comes to SEO results. The problem, in my opinion, is that I …
Man, since I released SEOSimple v1.2 a few weeks ago I’ve learned a massive lesson – WAY too many people are still using servers that employ PHP4 – the php engine that was replaced with PHP5 four years ago.
For anyone that tried to use the plugin with PHP4, I’m sorry about breaking your site. Actually it’s an old PHP4 bug that broke your site, but I’ll apologize anyway. So sorry I sat my butt down and whipped together a …
Close on the heels of the release of v1.1 I’m releasing v1.2 of the SEOSimple Joomla 1.5 plugin.
I’ve just tweaked a few things to better support UTF-8 encoding, word wrapping of the descriptions and better handling of the Section and Category page descriptions.
Please report any problems you have either on the SEO Simple Support Forum, or in the comments on the SEOSimple home page.…
Just a quick note to say that version 1.1 of the SEOSimple plugin has been released. This was just a quick release to add some additional front page title tag configurations.
You can now totally and independently control your Joomla 1.5 front page title tag using the following options:
* the [optional fp title] is whatever was imputed for the “Optional Front Page …
I’ve released a new version of autoMetaDescSEO, fixing many of the problems – including the stupid name – of the first release.
I’ve changed the name to SEOSimple to better reflect the fact that the Joomla 1.5 plugin project has expanded to include a few more useful SEO features.
Briefly, features of SEOSimple include:
- Auto generation of meta description tags for all pages/articles that don’t have a description tag set in the backend’s Article Manager. If if you wish …
Well, I’ve officially smashed together my first Joomla 1.5 plugin – autoMetaDescSEO – crappy name, I know.
You can get all the details about the plugin at its “official” homepage, but briefly, the plugin simply takes a set chunk of text from the page’s content and slips it into the page’s meta description tag.
This was initially created for a site I was working on that had a number of pages, which I had no intention of hand-inserting meta …
