[archive] phpBB SEO Dynamic Meta Tags

tweety · PR0 Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 94

HB If possible to tell!

what do you use to layout your main site?

I like very much the simplicity and layout. very easy to follow. do you use rss feeds?

HB · phpBB SEO Team Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 809

Thanks, the layout is simple because web UI design is not my strong suit. The homepage and articles are handcoded with some php for dynamic content (session handling, banners, list of recent topics on the homepage).

I've experimented with several RSS feeds. dcz is preparing to release his latest Google Yahoo MSN Sitemap And RSS (GYM), which I've been testing for the last couple weeks. It supports caching of the results, which I believe is manditory for any significant traffic. The other RSS feeds I've tried had to serve very short lists (e.g., last ten topics) to keep the performance reasonable. Once cached, GYM's "URLs only" feed serves 100 of the last topics about as fast as the main index page -- that's fast enough for me. I'm still evaluating the digest options; they may be "member only" candidates with some sort of weak authentication.

buncos · Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 5

Hey i noticed your <TITLE></TITLE> tag in overall_header.tpl return same result as <meta name="title"..... tag. This feature isnt included in the "phpBB SEO Dynamic Meta Tags" mod.

I'd like to know how you did this as it's a great feature to have for my site.

tia

*update*
never mind i figured it out Smile

dcz

Was the otpimal title mod Wink

buncos · Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 5

Thanks

tweety · PR0 Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 94

Thanks HB

dcz

do you think we should we use both? titles twice?

is title a meta? is there value in seo for this?

arkantos

I see that in meta keywords there is included only text and phrases of the topic content, not the topic title.
Some way to solve this?

I guess could be like the rewrite of advanced rewrite, to pick the "topic title", to replace all characters with "," and to just let one "," between letters. So you could have "::topic_title-example2-example3->title2::" and it could be rewriten to ",topic,title,example2,example3,title2" and that way coul be included in the rist statement declaration in

dcz

@tweety

Page title and meta tags are two different things, and yes you should use both mods.

@arkantos

The next version will introduce some function to format any string into keywords list, will be easy to do what you want.

But, note that the topic title will already appear in the meta description, so it won't be necessarily a great SEO enhancement to repeat them this way.

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arkantos

tweety · PR0 Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 94

sorry i know about title in head

I was asking if there was a metatag for title as well? i have not seen any site use this?

dcz

Yes tweety, right here on this site (this page's code):

jenny · Joined: 20 Mar 2007 Posts: 1

Hi, thanks for the mod!

I am trying to customize the description a bit but need some help. In view forum, I would like to include the last couple of topic titles in that forum. Is that possible? Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
Jenny

Ľubor

and according I have Simple SubForums - 1.0.2b ? Confused

My forum

dcz

@jenny Welcome Very Happy

What you're asking for would be quite some added work when building the page, and mostly SEO useless IMHO.

@Ľubor on day, I'll do something for your nickname Wink

And no worries, the mod will work directly with simple sub forum, whatever version Wink

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