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 Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:32 pm Post subject: meta tags |
 
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Do MYFF forums come with built in meta tags for search engines to pick up on or do you have to do them yourself, if so, how do you go about doing this?
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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Your forum description goes in as a meta tag if you look at the source.
You could also place your own in the template you use (overall_header.tpl)
We could possibly do better on this score though, so I am listening!
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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Wouldn't it be possible to have a button somewhere to apply your own keywords for the search engines to pick up on
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Highspirit wrote: | | Wouldn't it be possible to have a button somewhere to apply your own keywords for the search engines to pick up on |
As I say you can manually place them in a template. But we could extend what is done. For example I could easily make it so that if you made your forum description:
myfreeforum support forum (phpbb,support)
then what is out side the brackers is your description tag, what is inside would be keywords tags.
If someone who knows something about tags want to comment I'd be interested.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:52 am Post subject: |
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| admin wrote: | Your forum description goes in as a meta tag if you look at the source.
You could also place your own in the template you use (overall_header.tpl)
We could possibly do better on this score though, so I am listening! |
admin where about would i put the tags on ? i seen {META} but im lost with all this html language lol?
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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| sean wrote: | | admin wrote: | Your forum description goes in as a meta tag if you look at the source.
You could also place your own in the template you use (overall_header.tpl)
We could possibly do better on this score though, so I am listening! |
admin where about would i put the tags on ? i seen {META} but im lost with all this html language lol? |
{META} is where the automatic tags go and hence is a good place to add your own.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 2:52 am Post subject: |
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Hi all
I'm not sure if you have gone any further with automating Meta tags, but I just added mine.
By the way You should also have a <META Name="Keywords" tag in there, search engine still use these a lot.
So if you are adding your own on the overall header template, it should go like this
<meta name="description" content="Your site description goes here, this should include some keywords & definitely should include your main site keyword ">
<META Name="Keywords" Content="All your keywords to be picked up by the search engines, separated, by, commas, ">
You can then go here for free analysis of your meta tags & keyword density
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/meta-analyzer/
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http://www.widexl.com/remote/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html
Ps.
When you do this check the word 'forum' some times comes up as a 'poison word'.
I have checked this out & there is no evidence of poison words being used by any of the major search engines. The consensus is to disregard it
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Hmmm.... right I have edited my forum descrition slightly to reduce the number of characters in it and also to make it a bit more relevant. It has changed on the forum. But if I run the http://www.widexl.com/remote/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html
it still shows the old wording for the description tag 
Although further down the page in the box that talks about your site displayed in a search engine has the right text????
Also what is the correct place in the overall header template to put meta tags?
Here is the top of mine:
<head>
<META name="verify-v1" content="K13fJE1w9Jj4sM+bPvQFF15ZrEAmXmUmVlsCOLVqFd8=" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={S_CONTENT_ENCODING}">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
{META}
{NAV_LINKS}
I take it I should change it to something like this:
<head>
<META name="verify-v1" content="K13fJE1w9Jj4sM+bPvQFF15ZrEAmXmUmVlsCOLVqFd8=" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={S_CONTENT_ENCODING}">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
{META}
<meta name="description" content="Your site description goes here, this should include some keywords & definitely should include your main site keyword ">
<META Name="Keywords" Content="All your keywords to be picked up by the search engines, separated, by, commas, ">
{NAV_LINKS}
Is that correct? (obviously with my own keywords etc.)
Just concerned that I may end up with two descriptions!
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 10:57 am Post subject: |
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Is the owner control panel distinct from the admin one? I changed it in admin and although the text on the page changed the tags didn't.
I've now put the tags in as shown above and it is all sorted.
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| big_mike wrote: | Is the owner control panel distinct from the admin one? I changed it in admin and although the text on the page changed the tags didn't.
I've now put the tags in as shown above and it is all sorted. |
The main admin panel should give a link to the control panel if you are the admin who started the forum.
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| admin wrote: | | Why not change your forum description in the owner control panel. That goes into the description META tag we genertare for you. |
Hi admin
You are correct about the putting the description in the control panel. Because if you add it in the overall header, you end up with two descriptions.
It would still make sense however to add the meta keywords.
The main problem I had is that I have a URL re-direction.
& changes made in the control panel appear in the original myfastforum.org URL, but do not appear in the source code at the target URL.
So changes made to the description & the footer have no affect at my site.
I had to do my changes on the overal header & footer templates.
& the old description is also still there. So I have two descriptions. LOL
But I don't think it will have a bad effect on the search engines - well I hope not 
Maybe you could have a look at my re-direction to make sure its all correct?
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