SEO help

dave9713 · Nov 10, 2007

I have heard that META TAGS play a relevance in search engine results and what they will show for your site impression. However i am unsure how to do this, looked through plenty of guides but they all seem like gibberish to me.

I've looked at the header.tpl in the first forum i am pretty sure this is were i put it. Can someone help me and tell me what to put and were?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html dir="{S_CONTENT_DIRECTION}">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={S_CONTENT_ENCODING}">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">

{META}

{NAV_LINKS}

<title>{SITENAME} - Business Ideas Discussion</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="templates/ndesign/{T_HEAD_STYLESHEET}" type="text/css">

Thanks a lot to anyone who can help!

Damion · Nov 10, 2007

dave9713 said:
I have heard that META TAGS play a relevance in search engine results and what they will show for your site impression. However i am unsure how to do this, looked through plenty of guides but they all seem like gibberish to me.

I've looked at the header.tpl in the first forum i am pretty sure this is were i put it. Can someone help me and tell me what to put and were?

Thanks a lot to anyone who can help!

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html dir="{S_CONTENT_DIRECTION}">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={S_CONTENT_ENCODING}">
<meta name="Description" content="Place your description here" />
<meta name="Keywords" content="keyword, keyword, keyword" />

<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">

{META}

{NAV_LINKS}

<title>{SITENAME} - Business Ideas Discussion</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="templates/ndesign/{T_HEAD_STYLESHEET}" type="text/css">

Add the lines in green to your template and fill in between the quotes what you think would apply to your site.

Don't get to hung up on it though, provide relevant information and make it unique, so don't repeat the same description and keywords on all your pages and your good to go!

Provide a relevant description to the page and relevant keywords.

Spend a good amount of attention to your page titles, this is a strong factor.

dave9713 · Nov 10, 2007

So i should make one of these for every page? Is that still needed if its a forum? Would take a lot of work :P

Thanks for the help so far Damion!

Peter · Nov 10, 2007

what forum software are you using? there maybe an addon that does it for you.

Damion · Nov 10, 2007

I'm not that familiar working with forums but if you're using vBulletin you should look into using VBSEO to optimize your forum.

All the best :tu:

dave9713 · Nov 10, 2007

im using phpbb forum... know of anything? if not i can send over an email to them asking for advice.

Thanks Againg

Peter · Nov 10, 2007

If you are using phpbb 3 then it looks like you can use http://downloads.phpbb-seo.com/phpbb3-seo-toolkit-11/ (scroll to the bottom 1 in the list)

dave9713 · Dec 1, 2007

Thanks :tu:

Hafsoh · Dec 5, 2007

Thanks Peter for the link

webd · Dec 7, 2007

Meta keywords and meta description tags won't really help you rank higher.

The meta description should be different on every page. If you can't make it different on every page, then leave it out.

The meta description tag often becomes the text snippet in the search engine results. That is its main purpose.

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