SEO - Forum Specific Keyword Meta Tags for vBulletin 3
 

Attached is a MOD that allows custom META keywords to be added to vBulletin forums or the threads under a specific forum.

Keywords are entered in the Admin Control Panel just as the standard vBulletin allows you to add a description. If no forum specific keywords are added vBulletin will use the default vBulletin keywords.

It has been fun making this and I have it running on a forum I have up and running. I will post a link soon but my DNS is not resolved completely...

I have added a screenshot that shows the AdminCP where you would enter the keywords.

Enjoy My very first MOD :rambo:

wtf is this

He's using the thread as a placeholder till he gets the hack documented, then he can use the URL of this thread in the documentation.

yep... sorry... found some formating in my directions that needed to be corrected before I could upload the mod

Very nice man, congrats.

Okay, so what makes this different that the default ones?

<not meaning to sound rude, just confused>

Default your entire forum and all threads have exactly the same keywords. Now, most search engines don't put a lot on the keywords but there are a few that do... This mod provides a way for you to target specific keywords for a specific forum...

Cool. Not sure I would use it, I'm lazy. But it sounds like something people will want.

Very nice release Quarterbore ive been waiting for something like this :D

Very awesome :), my forum community handles separate forums for separate games so this will work VERY well :)

Great work!

I have installed the hack but i get absolutely no description or keywords can someone please help me with this hack.

Do you have a link?

You can see it working on my new forums here:

http://www.mustangreview.com/forums/...splay.php?f=10

and

http://www.mustangreview.com/forums/...splay.php?f=29

Note the keywords and descriptions...

very cool hack thanks

Why wouldn´t metatags be considered by major SE? *confused*

B/c it's easy to fake. Most go by IBLs / relevancy / anchor text of IBL / keyword density / etc. etc.

nice hack

extension for that archive would be that 100%

mfg

I believe that translated you are saying that if I was to extend this to work with the archive that the mod would be even better... is that what you tried to say :ermm:

Good point... I didn't look into changing the archive but I will when I get a chance... I don't know how easy or hard this will be to do with the archive...?

Hello,
Haven't installed this mod yet but has any of you noticed any improvements in your search engine rankings from using this mod?

Thank you,

Greg
www.treasurequestxlt.com

*bump*

I haven't done this with my vb yet, though Colinf had made something similar for me.

I CAN SAY that it worked very well on my ubbt sites.

It may not be the adding of the related keywords (though it can't hurt), but IMO the matching title and description to the content of the thread makes a significant enough difference to make it worthwhile.

Hello,
Well I really like the idea of the mod here and feel it can give us the edge in getting many of our pages indexed by the search engines.

I have one request though.
Can you code it to where the Title of each thread would be inserted in the header with <h1> tags?

Heres an example page that I believe is using you mod. His thread title is: KeyHunt back up, and better than ever!!! (if this title was using <h1> tag it would be great.
http://www.keyhunt.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2369


The header on this thread would be <h1>SEO - Forum Specific Keyword Meta Tags for vBulletin </h1>

This would add that extra punch to get picked up and rank well for many titles.

I normally use this for my header tags: <h1><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Your Heading Goes Here</font></h1>

We would also need a way to set the font smaller in this header tag.

Any ideas? Can this be done?

Thank you,

Greg
www.treasurequestxlt.com/community

I need some time to document the changes but see if what I did with my Archive page here and see if that is what you had in mind...

http://www.mustangreview.com/forums/archive/index.php/

Note: The archive code is a very different kind of hack but you will notice I got the basics working... I got burried with other projects so I never finished working on that part of this... but the description in this is a little more complicated to get working...

There is no doubt that this has helped...

You can also see it working on my other forum here:

http://www.quarterbore.net/forums/archive/index.php/

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there is your keywords and description that shows up when I view your page info, so it isn't working for the archive.

well, I thought this was to customize the forum description and keywords to fit the specific forums....

is this not the case?

Correct, the main forums work fine if you look at the forums (Quarterbore.net) ... I thought the question Treasure Quest was asking above was in regards to getting the forum title to show up in <h1> header tags... That is what I am doing in my archives... Two different problems....

Like I said above, I have not spent the time to work out the archive hack needed to replace the description and keywords in the archive (yet)... Of cource, perhaps I didn't understand what was being asked and perhaps he meant to include this <h1> instide an HTML Head tag but I fail to see how that is good coding?

more tools to keep my site on top with search engines :D

Thanks for the nice hack, this hack will work great for the first time (first few weeks) laster create problems) this is my personal assumption please confirm.

EXCELLENT HACK! A+

I was having problems with my GoogleAdsense, however with this hack I can target specific adverts in their subject forum. Almost too perfect! Now to implement a sexy 'built-in" system to the forums and mod a bunch of keywords.

I will post my success or otherwise in a few weeks.

Great hack. I tried to install it on my boards but since I have VBadvanced it is interferring with the tag generation. Is there any chance you can do a work around for this. I would hate to have to remove VBadvanced.

Also the idea for thread title being included in <h1></h1> tags is awesome. It would add an additional pow to this mod.

Jaks :)

Amazing hack i would love to see this ported to vb3.5 :)

any way to get this done while using vba? On vba's site someone is offering something that works, but it won't allow for adding of specific title/meta data, it just pulls it from the post title and post content.

I need to be able to set it how I want it. Anyone?

Quarterbore,

Will this hack work with VB 3.00 ?

Id really like to use this on my forums but i am not sure if the code will work on VB 3.00....

Has this been ported to 3.6.x? I did a search and couldn't find it. It'd be very useful for those who can't or don't want to use Zoints SEO.

I have the same question.