Meta Tags Hack in the works

montego · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:26 am

I'll be interested to see how you handle the News alien73, most especially on sites with allot of articles and the very dynamic aspect of paging through articles and/or categories/topics of articles. I can see this working for the main page of the news module as well as individual articles though.

One thing that I read over and over though about page titles, is that you do NOT want to keyword stuff them, that you really want them to be human readable (i.e., read that as "meaningful"). It is what shows up on the SERPS and what potential "customers" have to read and make their choice on whether to go to your site or not. If I see just a list of keywords, I certainly will not be following that link. This is why I do like the override idea and I also like how you would originally give me, the admin, an idea up front what the important keywords/phrases are so that I can re-write the title. But, realistically, not sure I'd have time. So, I think that I would still want to have something like Dynamic Titles for the pages that I don't have time to override.

But, since this was a long thread, not sure if I have missed a point or two on how this is to come together.

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 5997

OK. The retrieval logic is just about wrapped up. I just need to add the logic that ignores the module when viewing the home module on the index page. I also went through the tags to determine what to include in the default settings, and whether or not these would be activated. Once I add the home module logic, I'll send a sample to the RN team for review - then on to the maintenance function.

Guardian2003 · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:09 am

I am salivating....

Raven · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:16 am

Uh oh. Remember what happened to old Yeller!

alien73 · Involved Joined: Sep 15, 2008 Posts: 352

montego,

I explained this early in the thread. I'm sure what I have now can be improved but it works great. I did alter the News module table so admins can alter keywords or they can be left blank for auto meta great for sites with tons of articles. It will all come together for the best possible solution.

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 5997

Here's the dilemma: While testing, I had a downloads category with no description.

First, the auto keyword class didn't initialize an array, so this crashed. Funny thing was that the initialize was commented out...easy enough.

But here's the catch. Should it use the blank description of the category (i.e. show no description) or default to the higher level description (in this case, since there was no module override, it would default to the site's description)? I've thought about having a function that displays content, categories, modules that don't have sufficient generated descriptions / keywords that need to be overridden, though some would argue that they should all be overridden.

Should the description use the title if the content / category description is blank?

Guardian2003 · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:48 am

Seems fair enough to me but I would also want to look at why the content type is allowing an empty field in the first place.

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 5997

You may not want to put a description on the downloads category, for example. The title might be enough.

Guardian2003 · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:12 am

Good point.

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 5997

Still a lot of work to do, but

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should give you an idea.

Guardian2003 · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 4:40 am

Noce! Loks like you are using some JS too Smile

alien73 · Involved Joined: Sep 15, 2008 Posts: 352

I'm not worthy.. worship

Great job

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 5997

Thanks for the encouragement!

I need to finish some of the content classes so I can give you guys something to look at while I finish the maintenance function. I'll try to do that today.

alien73 · Involved Joined: Sep 15, 2008 Posts: 352

Sounds good! Again great work!

Guardian2003 · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:49 am

I must have been excited, my typo's in that post are terrible lol

alien73 · Involved Joined: Sep 15, 2008 Posts: 352

How about the robots meta tag?

<meta name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX" />

This would be useful to tell search engines not to index a particular page

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 5997

You will be able to override that on the advanced function.

jestrella · Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:46 am

Kevin you might want to look at this php class...

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pdfx · Regular Joined: Mar 13, 2008 Posts: 68

Well done guys, technical but after going through the posts I feel liberated!!
If this gets solved, im back onto using more rn nuke sites again, well done

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misterpat · Hangin' Around Joined: Mar 02, 2009 Posts: 48

So let me get this straight. This mod will let me specify unique descriptions and keywords for my content on a page to page basis? If so, cant wait for this one!

pdfx · Regular Joined: Mar 13, 2008 Posts: 68

Hello all,

Hows the progression on this going?

Any news to update us all eager beavers on?

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kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 5997

Still working on the nukeNAV integration, but I hope to show some progress soon...

misterpat · Hangin' Around Joined: Mar 02, 2009 Posts: 48

Any news on this project?

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 5997

It's on the hot plate right now - we are confirming an approach for loading JS dynamically, then we should be ready to finish testing on nukeNAV(tm) and nukeSEO(tm) DH.

Palbin · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:50 pm

kguske, has been working hard at it I'm sure it will be worth it. Groovy