[archive] phpBB SEO Dynamic Meta Tags

hvactechforum · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 44

UPDATE

I am getting an error message when I try to go to any of the new rewritten page links like this: "page not found or doesn't exist"???

I know that apache mod_rewrite is enabled by my host.

dcz

Well, 404 suggest .htaccess issue, but we'll talk about it in a more suitable topic, as we're really off topic in this one Wink

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hvactechforum · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 44

hvactechforum · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 44

Had another question about the dynamic meta tags, but I figured it out. Very Happy

buncos · Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 5

These dynamic tags are great. Titles and keywords are much better now.

But something your mod doesnt provide which i'm looking for is a dynamic description which is taken out of the current topics body. E.g A post from the topic used for the meta tag description.

Would be a great addition imo.

dcz

Not necessarily :
http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/phpbb-seo-mods/phpbb-seo-dynamic-meta-tags-vt74-60.html#2935

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

buncos · Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 5

When doing a google search on my site i noticed that some of the topics cached before i played around with meta tags actually had part of a post from the topic as the description. But i dont understand why the crawler only did that for some topics and not others? What i do know is that when i used dynamic meta tags for title and keywords, those dynamic meta tags were used for all topics that were changed since installing this mod.

over at phpbb.com when viewing source their description tag looks like this:
<META content="" name=description>
And when doing a google site seach of phpbb.com they have part of a post from the topic used for the meta tag description. And this is for all topics. So i wonder if to achieve that you dont have to modify code but simply leave content blank for description tag?

Oh yeah one more question, is their a way to get google to re-cache your whole site so that search results reflect the new dynamic meta tags?

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

buncos · Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 5

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