[archive] phpBB SEO Dynamic Meta Tags

murph · Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 14

Thanks for your fast reply Smile

Yes, i appreciate that meta keywords are not what they once were...but still, every little helps and there are still *some* SE's using them out there!

I just find a bunch of one word keywords is less likely to be any good than phrases. I have seen your optimisation to avoid words of less than 3 letters, but i haven't yet found that to be a major problem in my case...(famous last words Smile

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I reckon even adding the whole title as a keyword phrase would be a step in a better direction...that should be an easy hack for me to do by myself...but turning a 3,4,5,6 or 7 word phrase into 3,4,5,6 or 7 variables in order to output the various sequences is beyond my simple understanding of php! Wink

murph · Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 14

Oh and before i forget, i actually reversed the order of the sitename,cat title and forum name etc, as i have found the first words to be the most important in the meta description:

dcz

Don't forget many search engine will show meta description in their search results, so you also want to be human-friendly here Wink

I personally prefer the natural order (general => less=> general => particular), but, this is something left to every-body's choice, because, there should not be that much of a difference here, as far as showing up in search engine correctly.

You can move code as you want here, and play with the provided info for each case (index, cat, forum & topic), as long as you don't mess up with php Wink

murph · Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 14

murph · Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 14

hey me again Smile

I want to install a subforums mod, but i have a fully setup site with lots of hacks/mods in place, so i can't do the categories hierarchy version.

I was looking into installing the easy subforums mod:

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/5990

Will the dynamica meta tags mod work with this and if so what changes would i have to use?

dcz · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 12:25 pm Post subject: ntway,

Well I'd say use simple sub forum instead, it's doing it better according to me and has better not to cause problems while upgrading to phpBB3.

Besides, the phpBB SEO mod Rewrite add on for it is already here Wink

Anyway, the meta should work the same in all case, as long as you do not use CH, otherwise, you'd have to use the CH Edition Wink

legal · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 42

I just want to say that I think this mod in particular is absolutely genius!
Thank you.
Very Happy

dcz

You're welcome Wink

legal · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 42

Hi there!

I don't expect you to help me do this (unless you really want to Wink

) but this would be my suggestion for a slightly different version of this script.
I think it's a brilliant script - this is just my idea.

I think the way it works in the index page is great and I think the way it works on the topic pages is great too. My suggestion is to change how it works on the list of topics pages.

e.g. Here is one of my pages:
http://www.legalitforums.com/visualfiles-vf3.html

I think it would be better if this could somehow use the words that appear on this page in the title of each topic. Most of my main index page keywords don't appear on this page so they're not really relevant, but words taken from the topics titles would be perfect!

Very Happy

dcz

Yes I know, but the problem here is you'd need one extra SQL and quite some more code to do this at this point.

Cat and forum titles should contain related keywords though, as well I am thinking of enhancing the listing presentation, something like separating words a bit and why add some random Wink

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lavinya · PR1 Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 159 Location: Turkey

thanks for the mod.

I Want to use only description tag code exept page title, keywords tags.

if you help me I will be happy. thanks.

dcz

And welcome Wink

So you want to only use the description tag ? nothing else ?

Then, in the mod's code :

Delete :

lavinya · PR1 Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 159 Location: Turkey

very thanks dcz. Wink

dcz big sql query's Sad

and
google not see keywords tag. sorry bad english.

re thanks mod Smile

dcz

Not that big, just one more for topics Wink

But it is true it's not as important as it used to be, but still, it's a bit better to provide infos in meta tags.

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thecoalman · Joined: 18 Aug 2006 Posts: 3

Excellent mod, just what I was looking for... anyhow I have a suggestion. For viewforum.php couldn't you use the forum description that is viewable under the forum title used in index.php for the meta description?