Comments on: Joomla Basic Metatags helps keyword stuffing

By: Joomla Developer

Joomla Developer — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:41:38 +0000

I thought of tweeting it to my colleagues but could not get it! Please let me know to do it.
Nice write up by the way!!

By: Herbert-Jan van Dinther

Herbert-Jan van Dinther — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:27:57 +0000

@Kiper: The SEF Patch gives you the possibility to have a HTML Title separate form the Joomla page title.
It give you extra fields to work with right on the content writing pane.

They can work side by side, using sh404SEF for the Homepage meta field and do the rest as you write your articles.

For example you can have a page in Joomla! with the Title ‘Joomla SEO’ and set an HTML Title for Google as ‘Learn The best ways to do Joomla SEO’.

By: Kiper IT-konsult

Kiper IT-konsult — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:35:25 +0000

@Herbert-Jan van Dinther: I am not sure if the added value is high enough to make the SEF Patch a must-have.
I don’t really see what it adds that you don’t get with sh404SEF. Would be happy if you could enlighten me on this subject. :)

By: Herbert-Jan van Dinther

Herbert-Jan van Dinther — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:14:49 +0000

@Kiper: Don’t forget to install the SEF Patch, it will give you even more Metatags to work with on menu’s and on articles, like setting a separate HTML Title to impress the searche engines.

By: Kiper IT-konsult

Kiper IT-konsult — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:30:08 +0000

Thank you Hummerbie!

It is tragic that the global meta is still there in Joomla 1.5.
I thought that sh404SEF’s meta management would solve this and autogenerate tags and description but it’s manual and thus it is easier to use Joomla’s built in meta fields.
But it is useful when you have component pages without meta fields. Then you can use sh404SEF to populate them!

By: Mampir Yuk

Mampir Yuk — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:24:51 +0000

Works very well with me. I’m looking for useful information like this to increase my search engine optimization. Thank you so much ! ^__^

By: Marketing Services

Marketing Services — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:13:44 +0000

Thank You for posting this. I’ve been looking for useful information on this exact topic! The Joomla! SEO patch is up to date with each new joomla release. It works very well at giving you control over each pages keywords and meta. A MUST have!

By: Hummerbie

Hummerbie — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:05:17 +0000

@jason: keep it clean :-) Google will pick all three terms form the keyword phrase so you don’t have to repeat them, but the emphasis in this case is on the whole term. So, yes what your are suggestion is like keyword stuffing, that is how I see it.

By: Jason Boyette

Jason Boyette — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:40:33 +0000

Excellent – one more question, then. Is it OK to have the same keyword twice (once in a phrase, and once by itself), or would that be stuffing?

search engine optimization, joomla, seo, search, engine, optimization

By: Hummerbie

Hummerbie — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:29:50 +0000

@Jason: No, just like this: search engine optimization,joomla,seo without any quotes, just a comma to seperate them, that is how you put them in the keywords field.

By: Jason Boyette

Jason Boyette — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:48:48 +0000

So phrases go in quotes, like this?

joomla, “search engine optimization”, meta, keyword

By: Hummerbie

Hummerbie — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:24:34 +0000

@Jason: Keywords are single words, but you can put them in as fo example “Joomla.SEO,Search Engine Optimization”. Keep in mind that these words also must be in the content of your page! and don’t stuff it, my best practice is the put in 5 to maximum of 10, depending ot the length of the article.

By: Jason Boyette

Jason Boyette — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:04:12 +0000

Thanks for the update.

For keywords, can you put phrases, or is it only single words that are allowed?

(Yes, I admit that I forget once in a while.)

By: Hummerbie

Hummerbie — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:31:24 +0000

@Jason: yes, this isseu was fixed in Joomla 1.5.x and the article was written when Joomla 1.0.x was the current version.
Now the Global Metatag Description and Keywords are used if you don’t fill in those fields in the articles your write. Is that better? well, to some extend but it still is not the way it should be from and SEO point of view.

If you look at you website you will find the same Description and Keywords over and over and over again…. it would be better to clear the Global metadata just as in Joomla 1.0.xand let the search engines create the snippets for your site where you have forgotten to write them.
But you don’t forget them…right?

By: Jason Boyette

Jason Boyette — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:37:47 +0000

I just checked my site (using Joomla 1.5.9), and this problem does not occur. When I have keywords and description in my article, only that appears in the page source. However, on articles where I don’t have keywords and description, the page source shows the global keywords and description.

Is this something that has been fixed since this article was written?