[archive] phpBB SEO Dynamic Meta Tags

satshow · Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 3

Nice site you have.
I found it a few days ago.
What's the best mod to install for seo?

sportman1280 · phpBB SEO Team Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 281

the advanced rewrite mod is the best one. Also highly recommend the meta tags and google sitemaps.

satshow · Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 3

thx

At the moment I have installed this mod
mod-seo_urls_v2

I wil take a look at the other mods.

dcz

And welcome Very Happy

You can already install the Google sitemaps module, required premodded files for seo_urls_v2 are included in the release.

Then, if you decide to migrate, I advise you to wait one more week, until we release the new phpBB SEO mod rewrites (currently 0.0.2, will be 0.2.0).

The new URL rewriting architecture is ready to URL rewrite any module phpBB could use, and will make migration easier than ever thanks to the Zero duplicates HTTP 301 redirections Wink

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satshow · Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 3

thx.

I can wait a week no problem.

Darth Pincho · PR1 Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 141

Hi ive reinstalled my forum and have some little issues with dynamic meta tags. In each post everything is right.

But in the forums pages (where all the post are listed) my keywords show nothing.

for example see keywords here:
http://www.tupincho.net/foro/esteroides-anabolicos-y-los-controles-anti-dopaje-f22.html

The code im using in this part is:
$keywords = $board_config['sitename'] . /*', ' . $meta_row['cat_title'] . */', ' . $meta_row['forum_name'] . ', '.$lang['meta_more_keywd'];

but the variable '.$lang['meta_more_keywd']; apparently is empty. Any suggestion?

dcz

$lang['meta_more_keywd'] does not come from this mod, so if it's empty, it's rather normal with this one.

To use it you need to add the lang entry in your lang files.

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MvsB · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 10

can you begin a file *.cfg to check the updates of this mod thanks to who have eXtreme Styles mod??

thanks

dcz

next version will Wink

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

hello

dcz

Well, you need to rebuild search tables with the giefca fix and updated search_stopwords.txt before you'll see any update in topic keywords filtering.

Did you do it ?

itsonlychand · Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 3

Hello

I just implemented PHPBB Meta Mod

I get keywords for Home Page http://www.chaskapoint.com/forum

keywords are <meta name="keywords" content="YOUR_DEFAULT_KEYWORDS_COMA_SEPARATED" />

I will change them

If i goto first forum INTRODUCTION i get these keywords - <meta name="keywords" content="ChaskaPoint.com, Daily Life, Introduction, FEW_MORE_KEYWORDS_COMA_SEPARATED" />

But if i goto any Post - I get these keywords

Why <meta name="keywords" content="" /> is Empty Sad

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Any help please ?

zinnerz · PR0 Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Posts: 75

hi Dcz, is meta tag is still important?

dcz

Well, it's already discussed in this thread, I do think meta tags are important.

Of course it's not much in itself, and it's always better to have no meta tags at all than to have the same on all pages, but it's something that matters. Will not be really optimizing the SERPs because of the keywords, but more a general thing, a bit like page loading time.
It's after all a way to communicate with bots. I do not consider telling officially "you can index" is not something that can help, and when you add the category, you help bots. Not only because they will trust and follow what you say.
I mean, when a webmaster adds the index,follow link, it's clearly stating you are allowing indexing, we all know search engines will by default assume it's ok to do it, but still, there is some kind of a copyright problematic being it, fully solved by the index,follow meta tag.

Then, same with category, you take the responsibility to state it's PG13, or whatever, and this is for sure not totally insignificant to tell it. Obviously the same as for the index,follow tag, bots will do their own cooking to rate and evaluate a web site's content, but, I'm pretty sure the guy running the company do prefer shared responsibilities when it comes to output search results. They are linking to us after all, and are responsible for it.

These two points are not the one of greater effect, but still, I do think SE will be more and more about how to sort, rate and categorize web sites, and these helps out for it.

Then, the lang tag can really matter, as some time SE have some trouble figuring out the web site lang. It does occur, even with Google, and when it's the case, the meta lang tags helps out a lot.

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hvactechforum · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 44

UPDATE - I solved my original problem, however, I have another concern in the post below.