Topic description mod and meta

[cheapez]

Umm, All I want is to hide some links from bots, but don't want to uses the robots.txt
"Cloaking", Yes I know that too. I thinks I should forget about it.

Thanks alot dcz, You replied my post fast :p, that why I picked your forum to requests my needed.

Also I installed the "Topic description" mod bellow:
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/viewhack.php?id=5474

I want to add the description contents into the <meta description of your "advanced meta tag". Is that possible? That is my biggest concern, I did spend at least 2 hours on it but without have it works.

Thanks again.

[cheapez]

SEO is really important, I need to work on that more and more.

[dcz]

It's doable, but you'll have to alter the query grabbing the topic_descrition, since it's using the post table to do so in the regular mod.

In viewtopic.php, you can look for :

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$order_sql = (!$post_id) ? '' : "GROUP BY p.post_id, t.topic_id, t.topic_title, t.topic_status, t.topic_replies, t.topic_time, t.topic_type, t.topic_vote, t.topic_last_post_id,

In line after add :

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t.topic_description,

Find :

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sql = "SELECT t.topic_id, t.topic_title, t.topic_status, t.topic_replies, t.topic_time, t.topic_type, t.topic_vote, t.topic_last_post_id,

In line after add :

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t.topic_description,

Then find :

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$phpbb_seo->seo_meta['meta_desc'] = $phpbb_seo->meta_filter_txt($board_config['sitename'] . " : $page_title");

That's what will be used to build up the topic description.

You can change it to :

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$phpbb_seo->seo_meta['meta_desc'] = $phpbb_seo->meta_filter_txt($forum_topic_data['topic_description'] . " : $page_title");

For example.
The meta keyword, since it's using the meta desc to build the keywords as well would then reuse the keywords in the topic desc as well.

In all case, the most used keywords in what is sent to $phpbb_seo->make_keywords() will be listed first, and they are limited to 15 by default.

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[cheapez]

I see nothings changes in the "META DESCRIPTION"

Can you make it something likes $title_page

and just add it where you want
for exam:
<meta name="description content="$topic_description"
that would be so much easier

[dcz]

Well, it's almost as simple as you wish.

All you need to do to add meta is to add :

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// www.phpBB-SEO.com SEO TOOLKIT BEGIN - META
$phpbb_seo->seo_meta['meta_desc'] = $phpbb_seo->meta_filter_txt(" here goes the description text, will be filtered, no html and php tags, no multiple spaces");
$phpbb_seo->seo_meta['keywords'] = $phpbb_seo->make_keywords("keyword list, only the first 15 most used and greater than 3 letter will be used");
// www.phpBB-SEO.com SEO TOOLKIT END - META

Before :

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include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/page_header.'.$phpEx);

It's just that this way, you do not risk to break you layout if you send a variable with html tags in the meta description, and you only output the most interesting keywords as well.

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