Hi All

4SEO version 1.2 is out today and comes with multiple features. It has improved sitemaps creation (you can now auto-expire content and have it removed from sitemap automatically) and more efficient crawling of your site.

Let's not forget as well a full Dutch translation!

For a quick intro, here is a 3 minutes video on what's new in 4SEO. [EDIT 2021-10-08: I have added a full transcript of this video below]

Hi All

We just released version 1.1 of 4SEO and its main new feature is the ability to automatically measure and identify pages from your website that fail Google new Core Web Vitals speed checks.

It's an important feature for anyone concerned with Joomla SEO as it replaces previous speed measurements in Google rankings.  Measuring actual Core Web Vitals values is hard and you basically have to rely on Google Search Console to get some values.

4SEO automatically measures your site Core Web Vitals and flags all pages failing the test for you.

But how important are in fact Core Web Vitals, how do you measure them and how can you improve your score? We have put together this short video to help you understand better this change and what to do about it.

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3 weeks ago we quietly released the first stable version of 4SEO and I am thrilled by how well it was received by our existing subscribers, who were the first to know about it. Thank you all, especially all beta testers who worked with 4SEO 6 weeks before that release!

4SEO is the all-in-one extension for all of Joomla SEO, both on Joomla 3 & 4. With 4SEO you get:

• structured data generation
• meta data management
• sitemap with only relevant URLs
• broken links identification
• redirection engine, canonical rules
• content replacement (auto linking for instance)
• several other tools needed for SEO (analytics snippets, custom code insertion, put some pages offline or 404)
• work on the frontend
• a fast and modern, single-page application interface
• all in one single extension, making your site faster than if assembling several extensions

 Since that initial release, we had a few small maintenance versions but development also went on, and today I'm happy to announce the first feature version of 4SEO: version 1.1 brings Core Web Vitals measurement to Joomla, in a fully automated way.

What in the world is Core Web Vitals, you may ask? well, CWV are what the SEO world is all excited about, and has been for a little while. It's a new way of measuring website speed that Google just started using to rank pages in their results, as part of their Page Experience update.

The thing with Core Web Vitals is that they are hard to measure for websites owners because they rely on how fast your site is for your visitors, not when you run a speed test yourself.

So far, the only way to get real CWV values was from the Google Search Console but now 4SEO includes real-world Core Web Vitals measurement, taken using Google's exact methodology.

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While working with testers on the beta testing period of 4SEO, we found ourselves often wanting to look at logs files to read error messages or figure out the conditions under which a problem occured.

Joomla has a nice log files API that extensions can easily use to log details about their operations but it turns out accessing those log files is not that easy (FTP anyone?).

So we set out to quickly build a tool that does just that: easily manage Joomla log files. It's simple, it's free and it's called 4Logs. 

4Logs was just accepted on the Joomla Extensions Directory and so you can download it right now from there, or just install it from inside your Joomla site using the "Install from Web" tab of Joomla Extensions manager. 

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JoomlaDay USA was 2 weeks ago and it was a blast. Laura, Dorothy and the "Joomla Bunch" did a phenomenal work at putting the event together and we should have access to all the talks in video soon. Many thanks to all of you and I'll post back when the videos are up.

But JoomlaDay USA was also a major event for Weeblr and me personnally, as we were finally able to start the public beta period for our new shiny all-in-one SEO extension,4SEO:

 It's been nearly a year in the making and uses the best technology available today (in my opinion, of course!) to give you an insanely fast and easy experience inside of either Joomla 3 or Joomla 4. We have put all the experience gathered on both Joomla and SEO over the last 14 years (!) into it, in the hope of providing a simple and mostly automated answer to the difficult technical SEO problems most website owners face.