Just wanted to drop a note in here on a more positive side as there seems to be a fair bit of 'can't get it to work' posts here.

This is a fantastic addition to Joomla, works straight out of the box and is very handy to help us manage our meta data. It also works with every component we have at this stage with the correct titles being displayed every time.

A donation, albeit small, has been sent as a small token of our appreciation and I will soon add a review on JED for you.

For anyone having issues with this extensions please MAKE SURE YOU READ the instructions, it is VERY easy to follow and use.

TIP: Make use of the '$' syntax at the end of each URI to enable the tag meta to only apply the meta data to that URI and no others - works every time

Again cheers to the dev and I look forward to any future releases

Some ideas for future releases;
1. Add a parameter to set the character length of each field for Title, Keywords and Description, should be something like Title:70, Keywords:120 and Description:160. If the entered data is longer a small 16 x 16 alert icon should appear next to the field but still allow the longer text if the user wants it.
2. Add a Tags field for display tags on the page (optional) - could be same as keywords data but should be a select for on/off and can be different to keywords if the user wants.
3. Order of items, have a select option to add as last or first item (it currently adds to last for me even though it says the opposite)
4. Have the ability to check for duplicate titles and descriptions

Cheers again for a great component

Hi,
I really appreciate your words, and I want to thank you for supporting Tag Meta.

1. Add a parameter to set the character length of each field for Title, Keywords and Description, should be something like Title:70, Keywords:120 and Description:160. If the entered data is longer a small 16 x 16 alert icon should appear next to the field but still allow the longer text if the user wants it.

I like this, added to "wish list".

2. Add a Tags field for display tags on the page (optional) - could be same as keywords data but should be a select for on/off and can be different to keywords if the user wants.

Could you, please, be more clear about this?

3. Order of items, have a select option to add as last or first item (it currently adds to last for me even though it says the opposite)

I'll check this, and correct if needed.

4. Have the ability to check for duplicate titles and descriptions

Do you mean "on the whole site"? Because this could be a great idea. Optionally an user could "trace" and record meta info for any site URL, with some statistical analysis on collected data. It seems a really good idea.

Let me know about item 2.

Enjoy Tag Meta,
Luigi

admin wrote:


OK what I mean here is for tags that can be displayed on the actual web page like you see on a number of blog sites etc, usually at the bottom of a post or page. So with this feature the keywords could be set to be used as the tags as well, or the user can add additional or even replacement tags for that page.

admin wrote:


Yes that is exactly what I mean, one of the big issues with SEO that many fail with is that they use the same title and description on many pages, which works against their ranking in google and their indexing in general. A pages title and description must reflect the page content itself.



I am and again thanks for the great extension

Ok,
point 4 added to "wish list".

About point 2, I'm thinking on it just because an item in Tag Meta could match with many pages (e.g. with a whole section), and in this case tags will be tha same on each one (is this really useful?). Also, Tag Meta should add "content" to page, not only meta info...

Regards,
Luigi

Point 2 - you are correct, probably best to leave Tag Meta for what is meant for and that is for meta tags and not to add content to pages.

Cheers