Hello again and thanks for such a great plugin.
I have one request and one question.

The meta description generation is showing several additional spaces (4) in between my meta description where a paragraph starts and ends.

Since the SE's are only showing ~150 characters of your description, it's a problem wasting the characters in the description with a bunch of blank spaces.

You can see an example on this page:

www.homeremedycentral.com/en/aromatherap...s/angelica-root.html

My question is regarding the advanced options to add metadata to a menu. I don't understand what this would be helpful for. Is it to add meta info to a "page" when it is set to display a section/category blog or layout list? If not, why would you need a menu item to have meta info?

I don't think I understand the purpose.

What version of AK are you using? I can't recreate your spaces when parsing the text from that page.

I've added an FAQ about the menu metadata. I'm not sure how important it is really, but I don't think that it looks good to search engines if each page of your site has the same metadata.

I am using ak 0.7.1.1


The meta description That I see in the joomla back-end looks like this:

"Angelica Root Species name: angelica archangelica. Also known as: Angelica Root is also known as root of the Holy Spirit. Angelica root, f..."


The html desc is exactly the same as what I see in joomla.



It is generating from this html in my article:

"<h1>Angelica Root</h1> <p>Species name: angelica archangelica.</p> <p>Also known as: Angelica Root is also known as root of the Holy Spirit.</p> <p>Angelica root, f"


Also Matt, Do you ever use firefox? FYI-The faq is messed up because the slider basic usage is overlaying a bunch of the text.

Hi

I tested:



It produced:



Your site shows:




There are several extra spaces here, I agree. I can't see where they are coming from though. Can you send me the full text dump from the article please?



The FAQ Slider issue is a FF Windows only issue where the z-index for youtube videos is not properly applied. I hadn't actualy noticed it. Thanks for pointing it out...

I tested this and can confirm the cause of the spaces is the {loadposition module65} before the h1

{loadposition} joomla info can be found here:

docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_put_a_module_inside_an_article%3F


{loadposition module65}<h1>Angelica Root</h1> <p>Species name: angelica archangelica.</p> <p>Also known as: Angelica Root is also known as root of the Holy Spirit.</p> <p>Angelica root, from which angelica essential oil is made, is also known as "root of the Holy Spirit," and belongs to the family,

my description settings are:

art desc/ yes
empty desc/ no
preserve desc/ no
primary method/ characters
# sent/ 5
# words/ 30
#characters/ 147
add ../ yes


Back to the menu meta desc-
I'm not sure how many things your plugin will eventually encompass, but since section/category list and blog layouts all are missing meta data I'm using this extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-ma.../seo-a-metadata/7559

Ah. Well done for finding that. I'll look into it. AK should already be removing any of the effect from loadposition...

I hadn't seen SC Meta. AK does already do nearly the same thing via the menu meta option. Basically, when the menu meta option is active in AK, any menu that you produce should also have a metadata option added to its parameters in the admin interface. You can then manually set keywords and description which will over-ride the default Joomla ones for better SEO. I do intend things to get much more complete. The development has produced AK SEO component and AK0.8beta2 which allow AJAX frontend editing of keywords via the taglist produced at the bottom of the article. I'm thinking about making a module which will allow editing of keywords and description for any page from the frontend via the functions already written for AK. That would be very useful I think.