BryanH Posted October 24, 2008 Posted October 24, 2008 Just thought I'd throw this out there. I know 3.0 is already bringing spider-friendly URLs to the table. But how about unique keyword and description meta tags for each forum and thread? It'd probably be easy to do, the hard part is just deciding what content to use for the keyword/description fields. If 3.0 DOES end up having tagging support, I suggest using the tags as the meta keywords. And the description can maybe be the first couple sentences of the first post. Thoughts?
Will Munny Posted October 24, 2008 Posted October 24, 2008 oops... double post, please delete this one.
Will Munny Posted October 24, 2008 Posted October 24, 2008 This is harder than you think (from an SEO perspective)... I thought about having a custom mod built for this... but the description metas would not only have to be unique for each topic, but also for each page in that topic... the only realistic way of doing that would be to somehow dynamically pull keywords from the first post on each topic page. If the description is not truly unique on each page, Google will most likely tag the page as supplemental and never show it in the search results... in the end, I decided to not have any description meta at all and let Google choose a snippet from the page.
Jaggi Posted October 24, 2008 Posted October 24, 2008 this was already discussed and not implemented into ipb3 at this time and now its feature locked it won't be. It may be revisited for ipb3.1 though.
BryanH Posted October 29, 2008 Posted October 29, 2008 ... in the end, I decided to not have any description meta at all and let Google choose a snippet from the page. The problem with this is that in the absence of a meta description Google just chooses the first text on the page. Which makes all my search results in Google look like this...Search this forum only? More Search Options. Welcome Guest ( Log In | Register ) . > Kindly ugly, and definitely not useful.
Will Munny Posted October 30, 2008 Posted October 30, 2008 The problem with this is that in the absence of a meta description Google just chooses the first text on the page. Not so... you are seeing what you see because you are doing a site: operator search on your website. For actual normal search results, Google will examine the entire page and dynamically choose a snippet appropriate for the search term.
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