Download Forum SEO

[Steve]

ok done post it in 5 mins.

[Stoker]

Oh man, I am happy that you didnt turn "oliver" on me here

[Steve]

ok lets test this one on localhost and works with automod



Some feedback?

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But i also use Forum SEO and Topic SEO!
ok we are going to have a problem with Forum SEO & Topic SEO
you will have to force the install if using automod and manually edit the overall_header.html

styles/prosilver/template overall_header.html
styles/subsilver2/template overall_header.html
find:

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<meta name="keywords" content="{SITE_DESC_KEY}" />
<meta name="description" content="{SITE_DESCRIPTION}" />

If using Forum SEO
replace with:

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    <meta name="keywords" content="{SITE_DESC_KEY}<!-- IF SCRIPT_NAME == "viewforum" -->{FORUM_SEO_KEY}<!-- ENDIF -->" />
    <meta name="description" content="{SITE_DESCRIPTION}<!-- IF SCRIPT_NAME == "viewforum" -->{FORUM_SEO_DESC}<!-- ENDIF -->" />

If using Forum SEO and Topic SEO mods
replace with:

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    <meta name="keywords" content="{SITE_DESC_KEY}<!-- IF SCRIPT_NAME == "viewforum" -->{FORUM_SEO_KEY}<!-- ELSE -->{TOPIC_SEO_KEY}<!-- ENDIF -->" />
    <meta name="description" content="{SITE_DESCRIPTION}<!-- IF SCRIPT_NAME == "viewforum" -->{FORUM_SEO_DESC}<!-- ELSE -->{TOPIC_SEO_DESC}<!-- ENDIF -->" />

[Steve]

.... and im going to write a tutorial will need some help tho.
About seo does and donts point members to specific topics and include instructions about submitting there sites to google,bing,yahoo webmaster tools with instructions how2 use them any good ?

[Stoker]

About the automod probs there was something we could have done, but its too late now.
Instead of using both: {FORUM_SEO_KEY} and {TOPIC_SEO_KEY} we should just have used {SEO_KEY} to make the call for the keywords.

Then we could just have used:

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<!-- IF SEO_KEY -->{SEO_KEY}<!-- ENDIF -->

Then it would appear where it is configured.

Do you get it?

[Stoker]

And for the problem with users who have one or both mods installed, we would just have to make a couple of more packages for automod. And place them in contrib.


About SEO instructions. I just dont know if it isnt looking for trouble if we start a discussion on this
But I guess it would be nice with a SEO Tutorial that guides our users out to some of all the SEO stuff that is availble.

[Steve]

I uploaded the index seo if you want to testit.

this would of made more sense

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<!-- IF SEO_KEY -->{SEO_KEY}<!-- ENDIF -->

darn it!
al write an xml for the conflicts in overall_headers.

yes lets not discuss but help new members setting there forum up to be seo friendly,theres lots to write as there are lots of things to point out but will be very usefull for new users to phpBB3. I would of loved to have been explained some of this before i started with installing loads of useless mods and smilies.

[Stoker]

this would of made more sense

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<!-- IF SEO_KEY -->{SEO_KEY}<!-- ENDIF -->

Yes, and that is why I have this in my overall_header.html:

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<meta name="keywords" content="<!-- IF SEO_KEY -->{SEO_KEY}<!-- ENDIF -->" />

<meta name="description" content="<!-- IF SEO_DESC -->{SEO_DESC}<!-- ENDIF -->" />

It works with both Forum and Topic SEO.
Can you figure out how??

Its easy to use on custom pages, and index. I have done it that way on portal and index here.
Just add this in the templateassign part:

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	'SEO_KEY'			=> sprintf($user->lang['INDEX_KEY']),

	'SEO_DESC'		=> sprintf($user->lang['INDEX_DESC']),

And then this in the language/en/common.php:

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	'INDEX_KEY'                   => 'phpbb3, bbcodes, modifications, forum, styles, support',
	'INDEX_DESC'                   => 'PhpBB3 BBCodes Forum offer you bbcodes, modifications, styles and support for phpBB3',

That was for index.php

Now portal.php:

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	'SEO_KEY'			=> sprintf($user->lang['PORTAL_KEY']),

	'SEO_DESC'		=> sprintf($user->lang['PORTAL_DESC']),

and then this for the language file:

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	'PORTAL_KEY'                   => 'phpbb3, bbcodes, community, support, phpBB',
	'PORTAL_DESC'                   => 'PhpBB3 BBCodes is a friendly Community. We started up only supplying our users with a BBCode Database and Demonstration. Soon we realised that this was not enough to build a community and therefore started supporting phpBB in general.',

[Steve]

I was wondering...
Maybe we should combine Topic SEO, Forum SEO and PhpBB3 Title SEO in one mod and call it PhpBB3 SEO?

we should have stuck to this

[Stoker]

Yes, you forgot all about PhpBB3 Title SEO and created a new mod for index instead