phpBB SEO Dynamic Meta tags

• Title : phpBB SEO Dynamic Meta tags
• Author : dcz / http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
• Description : Generates dynamic meta-tags for phpBB.
• Version : 0.2.8
• Installation Level : Eazy.
• Installation Time : 5 min.
• phpBB : phpBB 3.0.5

Author's Notes :
This mod will add dynamic meta tags build out with the ending page's content.
It's simple and efficient, will add specific meta tags to all phpBB pages.
A single SQL query is optionally added in viewtopic.php, to grab the first post's most used words (common words can be excluded).
This allow for a better overall relevancy of meta keywords.
The first post of every topic pages is used to build the meta description.
Bbcodes tags are stripped off as well as smileys.

The mod will output index,follow robots tags for all the content found under the best URLs and will add a noindex,follow robots tags for pages such as style preview, print view, sids and highlighted URLs to prevent duplicate indexing.

It as well comes with a feature to activate the search_ignore_words.php filtering for generated meta tags, you will find some documentation about how to re-enable the search_ignore_words.php filtering on the Fulltext native indexing, see the documentation section bellow.

You should not use more than 20 keywords in the keyword meta tags
As well, you should not use too long description tags

In case you're using a portal, you may want to change in includes/functions.php :

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      $this->meta['meta_title_def'] = $config['sitename'];
      $this->meta['meta_desc_def'] = $config['site_desc'];
      $this->meta['meta_keywords_def'] =  $config['site_desc'];

And hard code infos about the portal, or just anything you may prefer :

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      $this->meta['meta_title_def'] =  "Your default meta title";
      $this->meta['meta_desc_def'] =  "Your default meta description";
      $this->meta['meta_keywords_def'] =  "your,default,meta,keywords";

These are used as default, in every file not specifying meta tags (search.php, faq.php ...). The page title is each time added in these to make sure all meta will be unique.

Meta Lang :

• You'll have to make sure you're using the proper meta language settings in includes/functions.php :
  

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        $this->meta['meta_lang'] = $config['default_lang'];

Documentation :

• Optimizing phpBB meta keywords
  This tutorial will tell you how to re-enable the search_ignore_words.php filtering for the search indexing (if using Fulltext native) and the meta keyword generated (all cases).

Languages :

• English, French.
• French support thread

Demo :

• http://demo.phpbb-seo.net

Download:

• phpBB3 SEO Dynamic Meta tags

To obtain support for this mod, please use the phpBB SEO mods forum.

You can post new threads and reply to existing ones.

Please add [meta] in your topic title referring to this mod.

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Update :

• This update is very easy to implement.