Joomla 1.5 SEF patch generating double description & keywords

[FiveD]

Hi Guys - Great Component, easy to install and highly intuitive, thanks for all your hard work

I have a few questions to ask, and hope that you can give me some pointers:

• I am getting a doubling up of the description and keywords tags in my html source, but only for the gallery section at article level - one of the duplicates is what I have entered at article level, the other I am not sure where it is getting it from!?
• Which tag does Google prefer "<title>blah, blah, blah</title>" or the "<meta name="title" content"blah, blah, blah" />" ?  I am having to stick with the <title> option otherwise I lose the title shown in the browser tab and header
• The author tag is not showing up in the home/index page

The website where you can see this happening is : www.jeremyhansford.com

For your info with regard to the Gallery Meta Tag issue, I have added no unique meta tag data to any of the menu items above the article level.

My SEO settings in backend Global Config are as follows:

• HTML Title Setting: [SITENAME] - [TITLE]
• Default Title: (this is currently left blank)
• Metatag Robots: Index, follow
• Show metatag title: No
• Show Author Meta Tag: Yes
• Show Joomla Generator Tag: No
• Everything below is: "Don't Use Global Meta Description, Keywords, Custom Meta Default"
  

Could you help or advise what might be the best way forward?

Cheers
FiveD

[vadimguru]

I have the same problem

[iamplatinum]

I have the same problem.  It seems like the metatags I had prior to installing SEF Patch are lodged in there?  Any ideas on how to remove them?

[porpeller]

I have this problem too!! please, help me

[joomlatwork]

Can some give me a correct example when this is happing? I've tried to reproduce this but with no luck....

Richard

[joomlatwork]

Are you guys using some third party components? For example sh404 in legacy mode with META tags enabled within sh404?

Richard

[porpeller]

Hi guys, i've solved the problem! seems that the sef patch writes the metadata in the database il a field named "metadata", that is different from the fields used by joomla that are "metakey" and "metadesc". to solve the problem, simply erase the data in the field "metakey" and "metadesc". look at www.inspiegabile.com to see if it work.

p.s. sorry my bad english, i'm italian

[FiveD]

Hi Propeller!

Where is the data that we should erase?  Is it in backend global configuration? Somewhere else?

[joomlatwork]

Can you specify where and how this problem happens??

Richard

[FiveD]

Hi Richard

No not using any other 3rd party SEF related products, just the Joomla 1.5 patch.

Here is a link to an element of the website where this situation is occuring:
http://www.jeremyhansford.com/gallery/trips-and-holidays/maps-a-info.html

You can see that this relates to the gallery element of the website, it doesnt seem to be occuring elsewhere

Hope this guides you a little

[joomlatwork]

Which component is this?

Richard

[FiveD]

Are you asking about which component the gallery is?

If so, it isnt a component, the html/flash is pulled into an article via an iframe.

[joomlatwork]

Will check the iframe then....

Richard

[porpeller]

you have to erase the data directly in the MySQL database

[FiveD]

Hi porpeller

Could you give me a clue as to which tables you erased to solve the problem?

Richard any ideas why they might be doubling up?  Would be good to understand what issue creates the situation, to make it right going forward.