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Neutral Singh

12-29-2005 10:00 PM

Add Search Engine Optimized (SEO) Keywords & Description to each Forum

Add Search Engine Optimized Keywords & Description to each Forum
Keywords: SEO, Search, Engine, Optimization, Meta-tag, Keywords, Description, Meta, Tags

Context:
This plugin gives you the facility to add some special keywords and descriptions to each forum thus allowing you to optimize each of your forum for its relevant keywords. No need to inform you that Search Engine Optimized (SEO) keywords and description for your forums is essential to enhance your presence in search engines as well as increase your web traffic for relevant keywords.

How this Works?
http://www.sikhphilosophy.net (View the source of each forum to realise the effect of this plugin on your forums.)

Recommended Usage:
Only Text based information should be added in keywords and description for maximum results.

Code:



*** Installation Instructions: (Also attached here)

*** -------------------------



1.     Installing the Plugin:



      Admincp > Plugin System > Manage Products

     Click: Import Product

      Browse: Your computer for downloaded file "product-forum_seo.xml" 

     After selecting the file, click Import button. 



**********************************************************************

2.     Only Template Edit: headinclude





     i)    Edit - headinclude Template:

        **********************************************************************



        Find:

        <meta name="keywords" content="$threadinfo[title], $vboptions[keywords]" />

        <meta name="description" content="<if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if>$threadinfo[title] $foruminfo[title_clean]" />



        Replace With:

        <meta name="keywords" content="$foruminfo[forumkeywords],$threadinfo[title],$vboptions[keywords]" />

        <meta name="description" content="$foruminfo[forumdescription]. <if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if>$threadinfo[title] $foruminfo[title_clean]" />

        

        **********************************************************************



        Find:

            <meta name="keywords" content="$foruminfo[title_clean], $vboptions[keywords]" />

        <meta name="description" content="<if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if>$foruminfo[description_clean]" />



         Replace With:

        <meta name="keywords" content="$foruminfo[forumkeywords],$threadinfo[title],$vboptions[keywords]" />

        <meta name="description" content="$foruminfo[forumdescription]. <if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if>$foruminfo[description_clean]" />

And you are done with modification !!

Now, simply Go to > Forum Manager > Edit a forum > Towards the bottom you will find the fields to enter your relevant keywords and description. You can play with the template modification to suit your needs.

Enjoy !!

If you installed this plugin, please click INSTALL for future support. :devious:

Thanks

firstrebel

12-30-2005 09:45 AM

Interesting, will try on my dev site.

Bob

HaiLua87

12-30-2005 09:55 AM

XML Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at Line 3
Why ?

Neutral Singh

12-30-2005 10:02 AM

Let me checkout.

Neutral Singh

12-30-2005 10:14 AM

Try this xml now.

sensimilla

12-30-2005 10:39 AM

sounds like a fun :) thanks

HaiLua87

12-30-2005 11:03 AM

OH thanks

Zia	12-30-2005 02:35 PM

Thans Neutral..
would u mind to describe some more...
such as.. seo.
Google site map gen: just generate the site map..
vbranking: convert php - html.

and this will add meta tag/keywords for each & every forum? This will generate Auto?
From where this will collect surce of metatag?
In Acp there are way to put key-words or meta tag & description...but it work for whole forum.

This hack will add separately???

Plz help us ....

Thanks

Dean C

12-30-2005 03:05 PM

This modification really will have very little, if any effect on your rankings. Hardly any search engines use meta keyword tags anymore.

Andreas

12-30-2005 04:11 PM

Maybe not meta keywords, but what about meta description?

Check google site:planet-liebe.de for example - several 10.000 hits, but almost all of them show the same text (the meta description) - not really that good IMHO ;)

Dean C

12-30-2005 05:44 PM

Meta descriptions are being used by google when you use site:domain.com but only for the simple purpose of displaying a description of a website when it's matched. It is not used in ranking.

For example. This is just a small scale example to illustrate my point.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

I know that there is a review on my site which discusses norton-antivirus. So say if someone searched for "norton" on google, the result-text from google will not include the meta description but it'll include a snippet of the matched text from your content.

This really serves no benefit.

Zia	12-31-2005 01:46 AM

Hello...

Umm so finally should we install it??
Will it bring something good? with meta tag or description?

Thanks

Neutral Singh

12-31-2005 03:43 AM

Hello,

This plugin is inspired from the ideas of T2DMan (Micheal Brandon) (www.time2dine.co.nz). Just have a look at his forums for his keywords and be amused. :)

I fail to adhere to dear Dean C's observations. Metatags mainly tell a search engine: what to expect in the contents of that page? If you have word, "norton" in your keywords as well as in the description in first few words, then the search engine will be suggested to focus on "norton" keyword in the contents of that page. This means that although in the google search the metatags description does not show up but it still guided the search engine to map your page's content as a page dedicated to word "norton". Please have a look at the number of memberships on my forum and i would like to tell you that most people are finding my forums through google search only (95%+). For example, my website is based on "Sikhism" but unfortunately now i rank around 100 for this keyword after the jagger update but even then there are many other keywords, where my website features prominently on top searches and i getting new members all the time, although those words have nothing to do with my websites theme i.e. sikhism.

EDIT: Beauty of this plugin is that if you dont want to enter keywords, you can also enter a small description in the keywords box.

Practically, i see no harm in search engines mapping my webpage based on a forums theme. Benefits in will surely occur in the long run. :)

Choice is yours. Enjoy !!

Quote:

Thanks Neutral..
would u mind to describe some more...
such as.. seo.
Google site map gen: just generate the site map..
vbranking: convert php - html.

and this will add meta tag/keywords for each & every forum? This will generate Auto?
From where this will collect surce of metatag?
In Acp there are way to put key-words or meta tag & description...but it work for whole forum.

This hack will add separately???

Plz help us ....

Thanks

You will have to enter keywords by going to Admin CP > Forum Manager > Edit any Forum > Go towards the bottom of the screen. There you can see two new boxes, one is for keywords and other is for description.

For example:

Your forum name is : Sikh Youth
In Admin CP > Forum Manager > Edit a forum > goto bottom > Enter Special Keywords : sikh,youth,sikh youth
In Admin CP > Forum Manager > Edit a forum > goto bottom > Enter Special Description :
Sikh Youth of Today

Try similar pattern on your forums and view source to checkout the results. Enjoy !!

Zia	12-31-2005 05:21 AM

Umm ...im all most clear....
We will install this one..
Hope to get more help around this one
Many thaks

Neutral Singh

12-31-2005 06:39 AM

Please click install!! ;)

Robru

12-31-2005 09:55 AM

*Clicked install* :)

Dean C

12-31-2005 12:46 PM

At the end of the day Aman, SEO boils down to your content. The better your content, the better your ranking. And it seems you have a lot of good content. I have extreme doubts that this plugin has helped your ranking whatsoever :)

Snake

12-31-2005 12:53 PM

Excellent! I was looking forward to this. :D

GamerJunk.net

12-31-2005 06:07 PM

Awesome I will install this later

zajako

12-31-2005 06:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dean C

It cant hurt, but can help. So ease up on the guy :P
But I also thank you for pointing it out.

bashy

12-31-2005 07:32 PM

I dont care what anyone says this cant hurt, if it helps then its a bonus, if it dont that i've lost nothing barring a few minutes spent installing..

Well done m8 for releasing this :)

Happy New year

Bashy

sportsoutlaw

12-31-2005 07:46 PM

While it may not provide alot of help in search engines, I could see this providing some help in terms of adsense if you use it.

Zia	01-02-2006 03:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sportsoutlaw

While it may not provide alot of help in search engines, I could see this providing some help in terms of adsense if you use it.

umm would u mind to xplain ?? what it did for adsence??

Wachtmeister

01-02-2006 05:16 PM

Great add-on.

If i have empty keywords and descriptions on my forum admin, vb351 still uses my keywords, given in vb3 admincp, but with 2 leading "," before:

<meta name="keywords" content=",,msn,animoticons,.... /> Am i the only one?

Neutral Singh

01-03-2006 12:05 PM

Yeah, as i said in the first post, you can always play with template modifications. You can try removing commas " , " from headinclude template and add commas only in the space provided in forum manager.

like:
Change the following code in headinclude template:

Code:

<meta name="keywords" content="$foruminfo[forumkeywords],$threadinfo[title],$vboptions[keywords]" />

With the following code:

Code:

<meta name="keywords" content="$foruminfo[forumkeywords]$threadinfo[title]$vboptions[keywords]" />

Now, the commas should not show up in your metatags even if they are blank. Please let me know if it worked for you now.

I think i will make this a permanent change in first post.

Thanks.

rlamego

01-08-2006 07:23 AM

Seems to be working fine, thanks for the mod =)

irishblacknight

01-08-2006 11:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zia

umm would u mind to xplain ?? what it did for adsence??

Adsense displays ads based on the content of the page, so if you want to improve the targetting then the meta content can definitely help.
A lot of search engines do not use meta content for the ranking, but they will use it in the display of results. If there is no meta content then Google will display the first few phrases in the body content, which may not be as readable as your meta content.

Snake

01-08-2006 11:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neutral Singh

Code:

<meta name="keywords" content="$foruminfo[forumkeywords],$threadinfo[title],$vboptions[keywords]" />

With the following code:

Code:

<meta name="keywords" content="$foruminfo[forumkeywords]$threadinfo[title]$vboptions[keywords]" />

Now, the commas should not show up in your metatags even if they are blank. Please let me know if it worked for you now.

I think i will make this a permanent change in first post.

Thanks.

Yeah good it's working now but what if you DON'T want to input something in those fields? It still shoudn't supposed to say " , " or something.

Snake

01-14-2006 05:02 PM

Bump!

jmw	01-15-2006 08:27 PM

Great! Does this plugin work fine with 3.5.3?

Snake

01-16-2006 09:41 AM

Of course.

Brandon Sheley

01-20-2006 03:50 AM

this is very interesting, I'll follow this hack, and thank you for coding it :)
I've already editing some of my templates for this exact reason.. I'll want until another vb upgrade come out and i need to revert the templates.. then I'll install this hack..

thx again, I give a vote and say this is helpful, and definitely not a harm :D

[high]* Brandon Sheley clicks install for later on ...lol[/high]

Dreamchaser

01-21-2006 08:50 PM

Hi Neutral Singh,

Just installed my in my vB 3.5.3 and I should say I did not get errors, everything went really smooth, thanks a lot for your plugin! Clicked Install :)!

Regards,
Dreamchaser

icare

01-21-2006 09:08 PM

thanks COOL

icare

01-21-2006 09:14 PM

Can you please give me example of metatag?

ANd neutral hor did you managae to get adsense uder your user name on each post?

Neutral Singh

01-22-2006 12:01 AM

Quote:

ANd neutral hor did you managae to get adsense uder your user name on each post?

That is a small plugin which shows adsense on the first post of each page. Ihat plugin dynamically also shows adsence of different sizes based on the size of each thread. :) So if the size of the topic content is more than say 1000 characters, a bigger adsense banner is shown otherwise a smaller adsense so that adsense does not ruin the layout of my forums when the topic content is not that long. i will release this plugin soon.

Snake

01-22-2006 09:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aftermath

Yeah good it's working now but what if you DON'T want to input something in those fields? It still shoudn't supposed to say " , " or something.

Is there a fix to this yet?

Snake

01-24-2006 12:11 PM

*bump*

Totti

01-24-2006 12:48 PM

i think a simple <if $vb[forumdesc]=""><meta description="$vb[defdesc]"></if>
could do it ... cannot make it, though ... :(

Snake

01-24-2006 04:09 PM

What the hell are you talking about? :confused:

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