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Settings

Page title settings allow you to set the default settings for how Joomla should use the title tag, by default Joomla uses the formula "sitename - page title", the preferred formula is "page title - sitename" and with SEF:PE it is also the default settings but you can use a wide variety of variables in your page title.

META tag description and keyword settings is where you decide wether or not to use the global meta ketword settings if no META text is given for the specific Joomla item.

META tag generator settings allow you to turn off the generator tag that says this page was created by Joomla (recommended).

Google settings allow you to change the default google settings to allow or prevent Google from caching, grab images for image Google image search and wether to use Google snippers to grab a summary of your document within the search result list.

Content date settings (HTTP-EQUIV) is by far the king daddy of SEF:PE's features as it changes Joomla's default http header that tells a browser (or Search Engine) that the page expired at Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT, that is ANY page, so the header says that the page expired over 10 years ago and it also uses the last modified date of when the page is retrieved.

With SEF:PE the header removes the expiration header as it serves no purpose anyway and uses the documents actual creation date or last modified date and time as the last-modified header.

Custom Fields

You can add up to 5 custom META tags with a default value if none is added when writing the article, sample tags could be: copyright, author, abstract and other less used tags.

URL Fetching

SEF:PE allows you to define the settings for META fields that you can assign to any Joomla URL, and you can also retrieve the 'content' from the URL. When you retrieve the content for the specific URL, keyword suggestions are automatically made and you can define the settings for the META keyword suggestions.

NOTE: some server configuration, even if they use CURL for URL retrieving will fail and require you to use a CURL proxy server.