dynamic Metatags - Hampering SEO?

abhishek1711 · PR0 Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 59

hi after i installed dynamic metatags i unexpctedly see a fall in traffic through google.. ww.ibsrocks.com . i think the problem lies with the way the results are being displayed in google search - the description keywords are nothing but the thread title itself...instead of keywords from the content. so the top content keywords are not showing up.

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

http://www.ibsrocks.com/forum/fearless-interviewing-t327.html returned "The topic or post you requested does not exist." But otherwise the metatags keywords looked correct in other posts. BTW, this site has been registered for less than four months, it's a bit early draw conclusions about search engine traffic and the effects your SEO-related modifications.

http://whois.domaintools.com/ibsrocks.com (Created: 2007-04-27)
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.ibsrocks.com (396 pages)

abhishek1711 · PR0 Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 59

thnks but am referring to site description which google shows up in search results , what i meant is that content keywords are not displayed in search results. if u check the source the DESCRIPTION is the thread title itself right. i though keywords from the content would be better as the thread title is already being displayed on the TITLE.... http://www.google.co.in/search?q=+site:www.ibsrocks.com&hl=en&start=10&sa=N

dcz

You're indeed talking about the meta description, the meta keyword for the example you posted is :

abhishek1711 · PR0 Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 59

yeah am talking about description coz thats what shows up in search results right...and since i alrdy have the description in Title , its repetetive...doesnt help much and i see trafffic from google fall down since i implemented this... i may be wrong , but i thought clearing up doubt would be better Smile

abhishek1711 · PR0 Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 59

thnks for the observation abt AMP...well i think that must be an old url? coz now the url's simply ignore &/amp ...just doesnt showup in the url's at all. made the changes u suggested , but dont see any difference as such....and the metatag thread u refered me to seems to be a complez one , id not touch it for now, am not very good at DB mods

Peter77

It is possible to edit in your own keywords and description if you are not satisfied.

Open phpbb_seo_class.php

Locate the dynamic meta code -

Find

abhishek1711 · PR0 Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 59

thnks will this mean i need to edit keyword for each thread? how does it work

abhishek1711 · PR0 Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 59

i just wanted the google searches to have content of the thread rather than the thread title as description, coz thread title is alrdy there in "title"

Peter77

Well that is all you would need to edit. I forgot to say that those chosen keywords or that part that you edited is mostly for phpbb pages. Like say, your forum index, or mx sitemaps if you have them.

The title of a thread and forum description will be shown on your meta keywords. sorry if I did not mention that or got it wrong . Like on my forum when viewing a topic -- part of the keywords chosen are from the forum description and thread title.

:edit: Ok it seems, if there isn't enough content on a thread started, then the keywords will come in from the forum discription and possible the ones you've set in manually.. if you decide to.

Then, from what I see, as more content is added to the thread, the better keywords are used. Like I said, it's good to do that search engine cleansing... otherwise you may not get the best keywords in.