{"id":1364,"date":"2012-05-24T13:43:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T13:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/05\/24\/featured-articles-metadata-options\/"},"modified":"2021-11-19T02:03:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T07:03:50","slug":"featured-articles-metadata-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-2-5\/featured-articles-metadata-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Joomla 2.5 Featured Articles – Metadata Options"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12\/31\/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Metadata is data that is listed in the header of a page\u2019s HTML. When search engines first began appearing in the 90\u2019s, they heavily relied on this meta data to figure out what pages were about. Modern Search engines, such as Google, no longer pay much attention (if any), to your meta data. Still, it can be a good idea to edit your meta data information. For example, your meta data description is what Google uses most often as your page\u2019s description in the search results.<\/p>\n

In this Joomla 2.5 tutorial, we will show you more about how to customize your metadata options<\/strong> within featured articles menu item types. These items control specifically your meta description, your meta keywords, index and follow settings, and whether the page should use SSL or not.<\/p>\n

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To access the Metadata Options for Joomla 2.5 featured articles menu items:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Log into your Joomla 2.5 admin<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. In the top menu, hover over Menus<\/strong> and click on the menu you would like to work with<\/li>\n
  3. In the list of menu items, click on the featured articles menu item that you would like to edit. In the right menu, you will see a set of options labeled as Metadata Options<\/strong>.
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    Meta Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n
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    With no Meta Description set:<\/h3>\n<\/th>\n

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    With a custom Meta Description set:<\/h3>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

    If you don\u2019t set a Meta Description, no meta description will show in your page\u2019s HTML code.\n<\/td>\n If you set your Meta Description to:
    This is my custom Meta Description<\/em>\n

    \u2026 your HTML will include a meta description, which will look like this:<\/p>\n

    <meta name=\u201ddescription\u201d content=\u201dThis is my custom Meta Description<\/span>\u201d \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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    Meta Keywords<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n
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    With no Meta Keywords set:<\/h3>\n<\/th>\n

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    With custom Meta Keywords set:<\/h3>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

    If you don\u2019t set any meta keywords, your HTML code will not include an entry for meta keywords.\n<\/td>\n\n

    If you set the Meta Keywords to:
    joomla 2.5 testing, metadata options, meta keywords, learn joomla, joomla 2.5 tutorial<\/em><\/p>\n

    \u2026 your HTML will now include a meta description value such as:<\/p>\n

    <meta name=\u201dkeywords\u201d content=\u201djoomla 2.5 testing, metadata options, meta keywords, learn joomla, joomla 2.5 tutorial<\/span>\u201d \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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    Robots<\/h2>\n

    When setting the Robots value, you have the following options:<\/p>\n