The developers from joomlatwork have developed a useful SEO extension called the Joomla search engine friendly patch which will enable you to control the Site title and content titles plus Meta tag descriptions and keywords generated by Joomla.

By default Joomla will add the Site Name, Global Site Meta Description and Global Site Meta Keywords from the global configuration settings to each content item you create.

The Joomla search engine friendly patch resolves this issue and provides you with complete control over the content title, meta description and keywords making each content, menu item more specific to both users and search engines.

The SEO patch includes the following features plus more which are not listed below.

• Manage the title for the site name, content items plus menu items and third party components
• Manage the Meta description for site name, content items plus menu items and third party components
• Manage the Keywords for the site name, content items plus menu items and third party components
• Control over how search engines crawl your web site via the robots.text file
• Manage the way Google cache's your content plus you can change the content expiry setting
• Option to import URL's for 3rd party components so you can change the component title and meta tag settings
• Compatible with Joomla 1.x and 1.5

Basically the SEO patch gives you the opportunity to generate unique titles, descriptions and keywords for your site name, content and menu items plus components which is pretty cool from an SEO prespective.

The component does not generate search engine friendly URLs but you can install a seperate component like sh404SEF or SEF Advance to address this issue.

The component comes in two versions the Free version or paid version. We would recommend the paid version which is only 9 Euros.

To find out more about the SEO patch component visit the JoomlaAtwork Web site.