Introduction
Metatags and Meta Descriptions increase the 'rating' of the jDownload Category or Download for search engines. That is they increase Search Engine Optimsation so that the Category or Download has a higer 'ranking' and, as a result, they are listed higher than similar items with no ranking.
When they are set JDownloads adds relevant information to the header section of your Categories and Downloads that, in effect, gives them a favourable likelyhood of being listed higher by Search Engines.
Note 1 Rather than refering to 'Categories and Downloads', in ths article only 'Downloads' will be used. That is it is to be inferred that a reference to a Download also implies Categories and Downloads.
Note 2 As well as jDownloads adding Metatags, Joomla also adds relevant Metatags.
When they are set JDownloads adds relevant information to the header section of your Categories and Downloads that, in effect, gives them a favourable likelyhood of being listed higher by Search Engines.
Note 1 Rather than refering to 'Categories and Downloads', in ths article only 'Downloads' will be used. That is it is to be inferred that a reference to a Download also implies Categories and Downloads.
Note 2 As well as jDownloads adding Metatags, Joomla also adds relevant Metatags.
In this example it is assumed that the Author Usergroup will be creating/editting Downloads in the backend.
Open the administrator account of your site and click on
. Next click on 
and then on 
. Next click on 
. 
This opens up the 
for the Author usergroup.
Select the
as indicated opposite.
for the Author usergroup.Select the
as indicated opposite.Scroll down to find the 
section. Then continue scrolling down until you find the 
.
Ensure the items are ticked as shown opposite.
jDownloads will now set the relevant code in the Download and Category headers to improve their Search Engine Optimisation rating.
section. Then continue scrolling down until you find the . Ensure the items are ticked as shown opposite.
jDownloads will now set the relevant code in the Download and Category headers to improve their Search Engine Optimisation rating.
Verifying
When showing a Download on the screen such as the view shown opposite the use Cntl/U - that is hold down tht cntl key and the letter U key simultaneously.
This shows the various meta-names. The one inserted by jDownloads is 
, the others have been added by Joomla.
, the others have been added by Joomla. Created ColinM -April 2026