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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[joeman]

I tired this mod and on my facebook fanpage it still doesnt display any type of preview for my vbulletin forum photos

[sivaganeshk]

Originally Posted by joeman

I tired this mod and on my facebook fanpage it still doesnt display any type of preview for my vbulletin forum photos

Share the forum URL

[dog-tag]

Does this work with the most recent 4.2.0 ?

Any input is much appreciated!

[sivaganeshk]

Originally Posted by dog-tag

Does this work with the most recent 4.2.0 ?

Any input is much appreciated!

Should work fine since there is no change in template code.

Try it yourself or else revert to original.

I have installed vbSEO , so it provides built-in meta option.

[Bisha]

Why my

{vb:raw $threadinfo['description']}

is empty?

[sivaganeshk]

Please share the URL of the forum so that I can look in to ..

[vimarc]

beautiful modification.. thanks

[Winter Sonata]

Anyone can confirm that worked on 4.2 ? I have tried it and as some reported the link now appears as :

[sivaganeshk]

Originally Posted by Winter Sonata

Anyone can confirm that worked on 4.2 ? I have tried it and as some reported the link now appears as :

Many people had reported that it is working on 4.2 version. I'm getting 404 page not found message when I enter the url as shown in the image.

[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.