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Im runing Joomla 1.0.7 but its basic is Mambo 4.5.2 (it was upgraded by overwriting with 1.0.1). , I read somwhere there was a problem that somwhere in code was an error so its always showing basic keywords and description, ones you set in global config, no metter what page you are on, please this means very much to me.

Web page is
http://www.gotocro.com

Many thanks for help 

I haven't heard about this bug - which does not mean it hasn't been there, no clue really - but I can assure you that in 1.0.7 the meta tag functionality as implemented and intended is fully functioning. It is easy to test: edit an article and enter some item specific meta keywords and description. If you check the source code of that html page you will see that they have been appended to the site's global meta keywords/description.

If you are interested in content related meta tags you might be interested in these links:

- Meta-Tag Generator
  (a very nice hack that adds a "generate meta tags" button to the article's editing page, which will automatically suggest usefull keywords/description using the article's content)
- MetaFly mambot
  (a smart mambot that will create those content related meta tags automatically)

Hope this helps.

Nic

Thanks on fast reply but as I said Meta tag generator is already implemented and on all pages Im getting the same meta tags

Once more thanks on such quick reply but it seems I will need to search further

Thanks

B

Hi,

I think you have more pressing issues to be honest. On first visit your site is painfully slow - so I thought i would see why.
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/serv ... tocro.com/

Apart from the fact that the page is over 300KB in size

Total HTTP Requests: 49
Total Size: 322705 bytes

and that the download time is:
56K  65.11 seconds

you have a few missing elements that are redirected back onto new instances of the script - scaling your database load by about 400%

The clue is here:
1  13191  CSS IMG  http://www.gotocro.com/templates/gotocr ... ullet1.gif
1 13185 CSS http://www.gotocro.com/css/com_estilos.css
1 13183 CSS IMG http://www.gotocro.com/templates/gotocr ... search.gif
1 13182 CSS http://www.gotocro.com/css/template_css.css
1 13178 HTML http://www.gotocro.com/

Notice all those files that are within a few bytes of the size of the HTML - those are the missing files being redirected to a new instance of the script.

The solution is to amend your .htaccess file to prevent this cycling.
There is a new solution available somewhere in the forums - but the .htaccess supplied with Joomla has a 'solution' that works for many.

The first line is the key - when added immediately above the other lines - it should stop the script from being called when files with those prefixes are missing: Add the line and try and load one of the missing files in your browser - you should see a 404 file not found error rather than seeing your site.


Of course the size of your flash and other graphics is also problematic.
23KB is very large for the 'small' left3 and right3 graphics.

Hope that gives you some pointers.

Dean.

Many thanks for help Dean, I’m going to fix it now, but do you have a clue why on every page first comes Global Meta Keywords and Description, and after them that particular site description/keywords

If you want to reverse your meta tag order from "site meta - content meta" to "content meta - site meta" you simply need to change one line in file includes/joomla.php (backup first!):

Search for this line:


and change it to:


Or if you want only content meta on content items (i.e. no site meta is displayed on content items) change that line to this instead:


Hope this helps.

Nic

Thank you so much on your quick reply, I solved the problem differently but this solution is also great, I found on mamboserver one old post and used code from there to fill global tags when there are none generated for the page, and if the page has its own meta tags then to use its own, without using global. This is the code and files I edited:

in /includes/joomla.php after function appendMetaTag I have added



and changed in /includes/frontend.php

$mainframe->appendMetaTag( '...

to:

$mainframe->addIfEmptyMetaTag( '...

This is exactly what I needed, but your solution would also do.

Many thanks once more

Nic-
Thanks for this post. I had this modification done in Mambo, but lost it in the conversion to Joomla.

Excellent. Thanks!

Chris

i have tried this method and show no change in the order of my meta tags.
do i need to change anything other than that code mentioned above?

thanks
JS

one more question
not only would i like to change the order but i would also like to use a keyword phrase
instead of the site name, is this possible?

thanks again
JS

I use metafly and this hack, all works greatful about contents but I would use this option with other components too, I think it could be so useful...is it possible?
How to do it?

Very Thanks NIC... this post is very helpfull, thanks

Thanks very much, Nic, that's exactly what I need. Got it. Great. I think, it will be more useful for SEO

Hi,

It's Very simple way to display customize Meta Tags and Keywords ...

This concept will wont work if the content are coming from article ..
This for Joomla1.5.X
$document =& JFactory::getDocument();
$document->setTitle($document->getTitle() . ' | ' . "Webmaker");
$document->setMetaData("keywords", "Webmaker,web developer, css designer, cd presentation,logo designer");
$document->setDescription("Webmaker is the website developer whoe makes and create website static ,dynamic");
$document->setGenerator("This is Generated by Webmaker.co.in");


Hope this helps.