What is the best way to implement meta description and keyword optimization on extra additional pages that I create? (ie. ranks.php)

If I create an additional page for phpBB3, the meta information for those pages is rather generic with the [Toolkit] phpBB SEO Dynamic Meta Tags V 0.2.8.

For example (root/ranks.php):

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<meta name="description" lang="en" content="Ranks : A short text to describe your forum." />
<meta name="keywords"    content="text, short, describe, forum, your, ranks" />


I want to elaborate with the desc and key and not be restricted by using the default $config['site_desc] or something. How can I do this?

I plan on creating a smilies.php and contact.php and chat.php and rules.php and a lot of other extraneous pages, so I would like to know how I can optimize each pages meta tags.

Next version will be a bit different, with the current one ( 0.2.8 ) you would need to inspire from index.php and just add :

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// www.phpBB-SEO.com SEO TOOLKIT BEGIN - META
$seo_meta->meta['meta_desc'] = $seo_meta->meta_filter_txt("The description you want");
$seo_meta->meta['keywords'] = $seo_meta->make_keywords("The keywords you want separated by spaces");
// www.phpBB-SEO.com SEO TOOLKIT END - META

before page_header is called.

With upcoming version, you will need to use :

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// www.phpBB-SEO.com SEO TOOLKIT BEGIN - META
$seo_meta->collect('description', "The description you want");
$seo_meta->collect('keywords', "The keywords you want separated by spaces");
// www.phpBB-SEO.com SEO TOOLKIT END - META

The next version will allow you to set all meta tags using seo_meta::collect as you wish for each page. Collecting an empty string will result into not using the corresponding tag for that page.

Note that in both cases, you can reuse the description in the keywords tag, by using $seo_meta->meta['meta_desc'] (will be $seo_meta->meta['description'] in next version) in the keywords collect call.

I just wanted to follow-up on this topic. Your solution works perfectly and I am reusing the description in the keywords tag. I am learning so much about phpBB-SEO coding.

Thank you.

You're welcome

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