What happens is Google recognizes these Meta Tag ads as spam and penalizes your site. For a product that is supposed to help with SEO, it actually destroys any SEO you have done.
You are better of not doing anything to your url'S then adding this, as the spam far outweighs the delivery from a Google viewpoint. Had a site go from #2 in a Google search to the third page two weeks after installing this. Took a lot of work to get it back to even the 1st page. Avoid at all costs!

I've noticed my sites have dropped as well. Is this true for others since adding ARTIO JoomSEF?

Do you think maybe your ranking dropped due to the sudden change in page URL's? My site sits #1 for hundreds of key phrases and I've used joomSEF for almost a year.

It could have just been a temporary drop.

I was using artio 1.0.x and placed 6th with my most essential keyword, after upgrading to 2.x Google dropped me to place 68 or so...

WOW! Hate to hear something like that. I hope you bounce back (if your site is legit).

tarik916 wrote:


What is your site's URL? I'd like to take a look.

Mine is www.enewspf.com I have disabled Artio JoomSEF for now. I'm too concerned about the penalty aspect of my site's URLs.

If this is not true, I'd like to hear more about this.