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Written by Tony Lindskog   
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
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SEF Patch Extended Review  Hot
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8.8
Ease of Setup
7.0
Ease of Use
9.0
Feature Set
9.0
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Last updated: Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Extension
Main Category: Search Engine Optimization
Joomla Version: 1.0.x
Commercial: Yes and limited free version
Version: 2.1
manufacturer: JoomlAtWork
Website: http://www.joomlatwork.com

PROS: Adds additional meta fields, custom page title settings, the ability to set the http-equiv settings of the documents date, and much much more.

CONS: Requires actual changes to the Joomla source code, does nothing to create SEF URL links.


SEF Patch Extended

SEF:PE is filled with great features to make you salivate in excitement and really is a must have for any commercial Joomla 1.0x web site, couple that with the fact that it's a mere £8.33 (+TAX) for a single domain license or get a server wide license at the cost of 10 licenses and well, I am sold!

It should be noted that SEF Patch Extended is the commercial upgrade from JoomlAtWork's free SEF Patch and includes all of those functions plus the Extended features.  For more information on the free patch, please go to Joomla Search Engine Friendly Patch.

Installation

SEF:PE is fairly easy to install, it just requires a lot of permission changing of core Joomla PHP files so that they can be modified/replaced by SEF:PE. 

This concept may be a little worrysome for some people out there, but no worries, SEF:PE also has a function to reverse the changes should you want to uninstall it or more likely want to upgrade to any future Joomla 1.0x version. 

There are patrches going back to Joomla v1.0.9 but seriously, there should be no reason why you are not running the current 1.0.15 version of Joomla and of course SEF Extended Version has a patch for that.

Features

SEF:PE includes all of the features from JAW's Free SEF Patch plus much more.

  • Additional field to put in the HTML title field, separated different from the page title and page header
  • Add 5 custom META tag fields to the Joomla content and menu items;
  • The ability to control the settings of the title field (for example if you want to include the site name within each title it's now possible)
  • The ability to add the META title field into the html head section
  • Better control over the standard META fields: robots, keywords and description
  • Control over the Google Cache setting (this allows you to prevent that your documents can be retrieved from the Google Cache)
  • Control over the Google snippet settings (this allow you to prevent that Google can show a summary at the search results)
  • The ability to dissallow Google to index images on your search for the images search
  • The ability to display the Joomla meta generator tag (if you like this)
  • Now support static pages
  • When no title is available the sitename can be used as the default title.
  • The ability to set http-equiv settings of the documents dates: Last modified settings of document and expires settings for the http cache
  • The ability to assign META data to any Joomla URL: thereby supporting third party components with GOOD titles and META data
  • Keywords and multi keyword phrase suggestions for Joomla URL's when you assign META data to URLs.