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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[MertTurk]

alo help

[xertox]

Is there a mod to do this with regular meta tags?

Currently when I share a link from my forums at a non facebook site it defaults to my TLD and basic description...

[sivaganeshk]

@xertox : So it works with Facebook ? What meta details you see in seocentro ?
PM me the forum URL.

[xertox]

@sivaganeshk The information appears to be correct in SEOcentro...


Title: 70 Muhammad Ali talks man down from a ledge - 1981 - Fatwillie.Net Forums

Description: 190 Muhammad Ali turns 70 today. Here's some amazing footage of him stopping a suicide attempt in 1981. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNuT...eature=related Happy Birthday Muhammad!

Keywords: 181 muhammad ali, video, muhammad, stopping, footage, attempt, happy, birthday, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knut...eature=related, amazing, suicide, today, talks, ledge, turns

Here's the thing though. When I share a link to twitter or meebo the preview only pulls the info you see in the attachment I provided using the same URL I used in centro.

[sivaganeshk]

When I click the twitter button(via AddThis) above the first post - right corner, it shows the Title of the thread in the tweet.

[xertox]

Same goes for me... but if you submit the tweet, it looks like this. One thing I did notice though is that my meta tags are missing some information...

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

<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" />

There is no information in property="" That seems a little odd. Plus there is two more meta tags a little further down.

<meta name="keywords" content="blackout, sopa, success, relief, support, shifted, http://boingboing.net/2012/01/19/how...kout-affe.html, breathing, total, yesterdays" />

	<meta name="description" content="I'm breathing a sigh of relief now that SOPA support has shifted.

[sivaganeshk]

Did you install any other SEO plugins or make changes in header ?
It feels like Twitter , meebo and few others pulls the meta property that is available first on the page.

Try to *undo* any edits in template

[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

[RedPoint]

run this changes with vers 4.1.10 ?

[sivaganeshk]

@redpoint: yup. It works.
@xertox : can I look into your settings?