i've given it a try. the mod works fine so far (except that on phpbb3 it doesn't use the search_ignore_words list...). at least i haven't double meta-tags anymore.

1) can i add some custom prefix, i.e. "XY FORUM: " in front of every meta-description? would you recommend that (readability)? how would i do that?

P.S: does google penalize (seo-wise) forums with double meta-tags so heavily? do you know?

cheers,
cesare

Well, adding few repeated content in the meta tags should not hurt if you do not add to many and unrelated content.
This mean that doing so, you should only add few and general content.
The difference would mostly be cosmetic given the importance of meta tags nowadays, but here is how to do it, in includes/function.php find :

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      $this->meta['meta_desc'] = ( !empty($this->meta['meta_desc']) ) ? $this->meta['meta_desc'] : $this->meta_filter_txt($page_title . ' : ' . $this->meta['meta_desc_def']);
      $this->meta['keywords'] = ( !empty($this->meta['keywords']) ) ? $this->meta['keywords'] : $this->make_keywords( $page_title . ' ' . $this->meta['meta_keywords_def']);

and replace it with :

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      $extra_desc = "my extra description that will be added to the regular ones";
      $extra_keywords = "coma,separated,list,of,addtional,keywords";
      $this->meta['meta_desc'] = ( !empty($this->meta['meta_desc']) ) ? $this->meta['meta_desc'] . " $extra_desc" : $this->meta_filter_txt($page_title . ' : ' . $this->meta['meta_desc_def']);
      $this->meta['keywords'] = ( !empty($this->meta['keywords']) ) ? $this->meta['keywords'] . ",$extra_keywords" : $this->make_keywords( $page_title . ' ' . $this->meta['meta_keywords_def']);

Just make sure you only add few words in $extra_desc and $extra_keywords

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thanks a lot for your valuable input.

cheers,
cesare

very usefull

thx

hi i have 2 question, because my language is persian,so won't cuase error using unicode keywords on includes/function.php ?

and my scond question is using keywords on overall_header at template,is it good or not?
like this:

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<meta name="description" content=" Mobile Hardware, windows mobile 3, windows mobile 5, windows mobile 6  ,...">
<meta name="keywords" content=" Mobile Hardware, windows mobile 3, windows mobile 5, windows mobile 6  ,...">

Nope, unicode (utf-8) is fully supported by phpBB and our mods.

Then, if you install the meta tag mod, you will have to drop the hard coded phpBB meta tags. What you did is not good since it will repeat the same exact keywords on all pages.

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sure,tnx

works

: my description ? How to remove : ?

I dont want to add Site name in Board settings because then write in header besides logo and there is my

random notices to my members. Thanks for advice

dcz wrote:Well, adding few repeated content in the meta tags should not hurt if you do not add to many and unrelated content.
This mean that doing so, you should only add few and general content.
The difference would mostly be cosmetic given the importance of meta tags nowadays, but here is how to do it, in includes/function.php find :

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      $this->meta['meta_desc'] = ( !empty($this->meta['meta_desc']) ) ? $this->meta['meta_desc'] : $this->meta_filter_txt($page_title . ' : ' . $this->meta['meta_desc_def']);
      $this->meta['keywords'] = ( !empty($this->meta['keywords']) ) ? $this->meta['keywords'] : $this->make_keywords( $page_title . ' ' . $this->meta['meta_keywords_def']);

and replace it with :

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      $extra_desc = "my extra description that will be added to the regular ones";
      $extra_keywords = "coma,separated,list,of,addtional,keywords";
      $this->meta['meta_desc'] = ( !empty($this->meta['meta_desc']) ) ? $this->meta['meta_desc'] . " $extra_desc" : $this->meta_filter_txt($page_title . ' : ' . $this->meta['meta_desc_def']);
      $this->meta['keywords'] = ( !empty($this->meta['keywords']) ) ? $this->meta['keywords'] . ",$extra_keywords" : $this->make_keywords( $page_title . ' ' . $this->meta['meta_keywords_def']);

Just make sure you only add few words in $extra_desc and $extra_keywords

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I couldnt find any of those lines in includes/functions.php (3.0.8 )

I checked the original function.php in the seo premod too.. but its still not there..

Please help

Yes this code is not compatible with latest version. Even though I really do not encourage you do add any static content in you meta tags, you could add:

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      $meta_code['description'] = (isset($meta_code['description']) ? $meta_code['description'] . ' - '  : '') . $this->meta_filter_txt($this->meta_def['description']);
      $meta_code['keywords'] = (isset($meta_code['keywords']) ? $meta_code['keywords'] . ','  : '') . $this->make_keywords($this->meta_def['keywords']);

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      if (!$return) {
         $template->assign_var('META_TAG', $meta_code);
      } else {
         return $meta_code;
      }

in phpbb_seo/phpbb_seo_meta.php.

I just want to add few other words before each topics description

Please guide me how to

Didnt quite get what you said there

If you just want few words before the description, use :

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          $meta_code['description'] = "The few words you want" . (isset($meta_code['description']) ? ' - ' . $meta_code['description'] : '');

Add that before that If command in phpbbseo-meta??

Yes, that was in replacement for the suggested code in the same position.