Meta Tags etc

Regular Joined: Mar 13, 2008 Posts: 68

I would love the meta tags etc to be more easier for noob to medium users of nuke so you can add keywords, titles, descriptons manually for:-Modules you create,
Individual Article pages created under content.

WOULD BE GREAT!!

Top work anyway

P

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:52 am

I agree there is much more to do in the future.
However, you will find different hacks here and there e.g. at:
http://nukeseo.com
http://slaytanic.sourceforge.net/

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

The next release of nukeSEO (next on my list) will allow you to override meta tags (title, description, and keywords) by content type (module), content group (e.g. topic, category, forum) and / or specific content (story, content page, forum topic).

No date yet, but I will post updates on nukeseo.com

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:23 am

Well done, I have learned so much with this forum and the excellent help of all you techies out there..
Respect to you all....now go outside and see how many new buildings have been built since you last went outside~!!!

Very Happy

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:23 pm

Were those we lept in a single bound? Surprised

Involved Joined: Sep 15, 2008 Posts: 352

How about this.................

Basically you can add 2 new fields to the "add an article page" then modified the meta.php file to included my article meta tags on a page by page basis. You will aslo have to add these to edit story functions etc......

I added 2 variables in the meta.php file

$metastring .= "\n".'<meta name="Keywords" content="'.$mkeys.'" />';
$metastring .= "\n".'<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="'.$mdescription.'" />';

replacing the standard ones in RN meta file

$metastring .= "\n".'<meta name="KEYWORDS" content=" keywords,etc...." />';
$metastring .= "\n".'<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="'.$slogan.'" />';

I then created a function like this to place above the meta info in the meta file

global $mkeys, $mdescription;

//-->statkeys here you must insert your STATIC META-Keywords:

$statkeys = "insert, your, static, keywords";
meta();

//use static or dynamic keywords?
if (!$mkeys){
$mkeys = $statickeys;
}
else {
$mkeys = ereg_replace("\n", "", $mkeys);
}
//static or dynamic description
if (!$mdescription){
$mdescription = $slogan;
}
else {
$mdescription = ereg_replace("\n", "", $mdescription);
}

function meta(){

//-->selects keywords and description from nuke_stories table that we added

global $prefix, $dbi, $mkeys, $mdescription;
$remote = getenv ("REMOTE_ADDR");
if (eregi("article\&sid=([0-9]{1,5})",$uri,$regs)){
$uri = getenv ("REQUEST_URI");
if (eregi("article\&sid=([0-9]{1,5})",$uri,$regs)){
$storyid = $regs[1];
$result = sql_query("select mkeys, mdescription from $prefix"._stories." WHERE storyid='$storyid'", $dbi);
while(list($mkeys, $mdescription) = sql_fetch_row($result, $dbi)){
return $mkeys;
return $mdescription;

}
}
}

}

Note: This uses the old phpnuke mysql queries so it would need to be updated.

I wrote this off the top of my head so if there's some mistakes please be easy :>)

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:08 pm

I forgot to mention statickeys are used if you forgot to add meta keys to your article so it acts as global keys. It's better to have them in the database but I just added them in the meta file.

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:39 pm

See here for old to new sql layer conversion. Wink

http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/posts16627-highlight-dbi.html

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:17 pm

Thanks for the link... the sql layer is from phpbb style I believe.

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:36 pm

I believe the code has been used in the patched Nuke files for a while.

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:47 pm

Yeah I know.....

I'm hacking the PN News module to include Meta keywords and Meta description. It will be called Alien73 News Module for PN with Meta Tags... So when you add a file you can add Meta data right at the same location... It would be a nice addition to the core New module.

Since we decided to now move our site to RN we need these features so why not just contribute them. There's a high demand meta tags in NUke and is a must for serious webmasters. Drupal, Joomla, Concrete5 and all the rest have it why not NUKE????

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:00 pm

I would certainly agree that having a more granular control over what meta data is used on a per page basis would be great but remember, it is not a magic bullet.
If your meta keywords do not tie in with your content, titles, meta description, a few alt tags etc then the site will still be below the level of optimisation it could be.

I can't wait for nukeSEO v2.0 Smile

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:17 am

Using the title as keywords and hometext as the description is a safe bet.

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:29 am

Can someone put this discussion in perspective for me? I can see where you are trying to "sell" something or attract users from all over the web where having meta tags that are relevant would be useful. But a lot of *Nuke sites, at least in my experience, tend to be local and have a built in audience. For instance, I run a local bicycle club site. People who are interested pretty much know about us already. I'd just as soon not have hackers from all over the web visiting. I really don't care if Google indexes me or not. Is there some advantage in this situation to worrying about and making meta tags relevant? I'm not trying to be contrary and I can see where this would be useful to many sites; I'm just trying to improve my understanding of how and why all this works.

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:48 am

RavenNuke is already seo optimized but to get better positions in search engines you need to do a bit more. Whats already available from NukeSeo or Slaytanic isn´t enough to get the best results.
I´m sorry to say this.
I can only speak for my site. I don´t have a business site but like your site well known for our target group also international and the most will find us. Just not through the articles and content because they aren´t well optimized. I know the difference very well because before I switched over to RavenNuke I used hacks for articles and the content of my site and had 1a results.
If you don´t like visits from hackers and script kiddies from all over the world you should not let index your site from search engines or just don´t use the web. Thats the best solution to avoid everything.

Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 8:44 am

Here's a real world example on just this forum page. Here's the meta keyword and descriptions tags

<meta name="KEYWORDS" content="cms, web hosting, security, quality, php expert, raven, RavenNuke, ravennuke, raven nuke, ravenuke, Ravenuke, News, news, Technology, technology, downloads, php, PHP, themes, php scripts, php programming, php programmer, nuke sentinel, sentinel, nukesentinel, nuke sentinal, nukesentinal, sentinal, nuke help, raven scripts, kisgb, kissq, guestbook, programming" />

<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="Quality PHP Web Hosting and Scripts" />

None of the keywords are relevant and the description doesn't match this page.

Now if the page had the keywords and description to match this page it would get more hits resulting in higher page ranking with less advertising costs.

<meta name="KEYWORDS" content="Raven Nuke, v2.3, Feedback, Suggestions, Meta, Tags"/>

<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="I would love the meta tags etc to be more easier for noob to medium users of nuke so you can add keywords, titles, descriptons manually" />

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:42 am

Has this debate moved forward since i originally posted the question?

P

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:45 am

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