Miscellaneous Hacks - Meta tags - Thread description - Search Engine and Facebook share

This simple trick allows you to change Thread's Meta tag from ForumHome Meta details to thread description.


Before :



After :


Instruction :

Edit facebook_opengraph in the template

Replace :

<vb:each from="opengrapharray" key="property" value="content"><meta property="{vb:raw property}" content="{vb:raw content}" />
</vb:each>

with

<vb:each from="opengrapharray" key="property" value="content"><meta property="{vb:raw $threadinfo['description']}" content="{vb:raw content}" />
</vb:each>

That's all.

Now when you share in facebook, you will see the Thread desc as the meta tag.


Disclaimer :

• I tried changing many codes in Template and finally succeeded. So I am not responsible if there is any problem.
  
• Length of Meta Keyword/description may be greater than 200 words.

P.S :
Facebook caches the meta title and desc. when you try to share any link. In that case, you won't see any new meta details. So add ?v=1 or &p=19 [something like that]
eg. http://collegers.net/showthread.php?...enter-HOAX?v=1

Otherwise check the meta details using
http://www.seocentro.com/tools/searc...-analyzer.html

**If you are using vbSEO , this Mod is not necessary

Demo : http://collegers.net/forum.php

(edited on 17 Oct )
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[sivaganeshk]

Originally Posted by Spangle

Why are people working on meta tags, all the big search engines ignore them now, Google, Bing and Yahoo use algorithm's to work out page titles and threads.

It doesn't do anything for Search Engine Ranking Position. The most prominent use of Meta description in a page is, It is the text that will be displayed in Search Result near the link. If it is not relevant (other than thread info), users may ignore your page.

[Divvy]

Originally Posted by xertox

I just discovered that changing the facebook_opengraph template makes my meta tags go from this....

<meta property="fb:app_id" content="xxxxxxx" />

<meta property="og:site_name" content="Fatwillie.Net - Forums" />

<meta property="og:description" content="Media for People Who Like Media" />

<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.fatwillie.net/forum/showthread.php?3749-Yesterdays-SOPA-Blackout-Was-a-Total-Success" />

<meta property="og:type" content="article" />

To this...

<meta property="" content="xxxxxxx" />

 <meta property="" content="Fatwillie.Net - Forums" />

 <meta property="" content="Media for People Who Like Media" />

 <meta property="" content="http://www.fatwillie.net/forum/showthread.php?3749-Yesterdays-SOPA-Blackout-Was-a-Total-Success" />

 <meta property="" content="article" />

I'm no expert but I am pretty sure it's not supposed to do that... Once I reverted my opengraph template my meta tags returned to normal...

I'm using 4.1.10

Same problem here... does anyone got a fix?
Im using 4.2 version.

[K!nG]

Any update for 4.2 ??

[pablodip]

4.2.2 run :up:

[geosharing]

yes working on 4.X all version

[jokergameth]

wow, Still works on vBulletin v4.2.1 in year 2020
Thanks