Meta data

[jengwen]

I am using version 1.7 and when I entered my site w/o frames, I could see the general meta data I entered in my header file.  I think that was my problem.

I have another question... What is the purpose of adding meta data for each image?  Can search engines pick it up if you are using variables like that?

[jengwen]

Finally got this working and it works great!  Since the full directions are kind of broken up, here is a summary.  New lines are in bold.  

Change header.html:

<title>{site_name}</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset={charset}" />
<meta name="description" content="{meta_description}">
<meta name="keywords" content="{meta_keywords}">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{template_url}/style.css" />

Change details.php:

//-----------------------------------------------------
//--- Show Image --------------------------------------
//-----------------------------------------------------
$image_allow_comments = (check_permission("auth_readcomment", $cat_id)) ? $image_row['image_allow_comments'] : 0;
$image_name = htmlspecialchars($image_row['image_name']);
show_image($image_row, $mode, 0, 1);
$site_template->register_vars(array(
  "meta_keywords" => str_replace(" ", ", ", $image_row['image_keywords']),
  "meta_description" => $image_row['image_description']
));

Other files to change:
index.php
top.php
search.php
register.php
postcards.php
member.php
lightbox.php
categories.php
quotation.php (if you did the lightbox quote mod)

//-----------------------------------------------------
//--- Print Out ---------------------------------------
//-----------------------------------------------------
$site_template->register_vars(array(
  "msg" => $msg,
  "clickstream" => $clickstream
));
  $site_template->register_vars(array(
  "meta_keywords" => "enter your keywords here",
  "meta_description" => "enter your site description here"
  ));
$site_template->print_template($site_template->parse_template($main_template));
include(ROOT_PATH.'includes/page_footer.php');

[Chris]

Because the subsequent pages are generated by server side scripts, links to other php files represent a possible infinite URL space.  Because of this possibility most search engines won't follow those links links so they're not likely to ever see the meta tags.  

Just my experience and what Google, Inktomi, etc have to say about pages that are dynamically generated.

[waleed]

for keywords .. should i insert comma between every work ?

[Chris]

What keywords?  Where?

[lapinkulta]

great mod, exactly what i need.


only if i add:

Code: [Select]

<meta name="description" content="{meta_description}" />
<meta name="keywords" content="{meta_keywords}" />
to the header.html, description and keywords are not displayed.

If I add the fields {meta_description} and {meta_keywords} directly in the let's say home.html template, they show up.

What could this be?

Greetings,
lapinkulta

[Vincent]

if i would like to get information to a categorie! how and where could i do this?

in the detail page i belive it works - waiting of a robot! 

sincerly
vincent

[Vincent]

I have added this mod a couple of weeks ago!
but the search engine are not using the information in the meta tag!

in my case for problem solving only in the detail.php

why not?

sincerly
vincent

[orb42]

Change header.html:


<title>{site_name}</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset={charset}" />
<meta name="description" content="{meta_description}">
<meta name="keywords" content="{meta_keywords}">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{template_url}/style.css" />


Change details.php:


//-----------------------------------------------------
//--- Show Image --------------------------------------
//-----------------------------------------------------
$image_allow_comments = (check_permission("auth_readcomment", $cat_id)) ? $image_row['image_allow_comments'] : 0;
$image_name = htmlspecialchars($image_row['image_name']);
show_image($image_row, $mode, 0, 1);
$site_template->register_vars(array(
  "meta_keywords" => str_replace(" ", ", ", $image_row['image_keywords']),
  "meta_description" => $image_row['image_description']
));


Other files to change:
index.php
top.php
search.php
register.php
postcards.php
member.php
lightbox.php
categories.php
quotation.php (if you did the lightbox quote mod)

//-----------------------------------------------------
//--- Print Out ---------------------------------------
//-----------------------------------------------------
$site_template->register_vars(array(
  "msg" => $msg,
  "clickstream" => $clickstream
));
  $site_template->register_vars(array(
  "meta_keywords" => "enter your keywords here",
  "meta_description" => "enter your site description here"
  ));
$site_template->print_template($site_template->parse_template($main_template));
include(ROOT_PATH.'includes/page_footer.php');

Where to put this part please?

Code: [Select]

//-----------------------------------------------------
//--- Print Out ---------------------------------------
//-----------------------------------------------------
$site_template->register_vars(array(
  "msg" => $msg,
  "clickstream" => $clickstream
));
  $site_template->register_vars(array(
  "meta_keywords" => "enter your keywords here",
  "meta_description" => "enter your site description here"
  ));
$site_template->print_template($site_template->parse_template($main_template));
include(ROOT_PATH.'includes/page_footer.php');