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mjm
2010-04-16
2013-05-30
  • mjm

    mjm - 2010-04-16

    I am still running one of my pgv on 4.0.2, standard theme. I am attempting to make it more Google friendly since Google reports that I have 105 pages with short meta descriptions, 102 pages with duplicate meta descriptions, and 2 pages with duplicate title tags. My site map consists of well over 1000 URLs. Not all of them have been indexed, and thus such a small html count in errors.

    I would love to customize the header to create variations in the meta tags. I have gone through all the different config files, only to realize that the task to accomplish this would be enormous, as I am not familiar with the code structure. I have some familiarity with php, but I am basically a PERL person, to old to get involved with php.

    So, my question is: Is there a simple way to do it, and where do I make the necessary alteration. config_gedcom.phpis where I believe I needed to make the changes, but was not sure where the different variables reside or whether they can be inserted there.

     
  • Greg Roach

    Greg Roach - 2010-04-16

    The contents of the META tags can all be set in the gedcom configuration page.

     
  • mjm

    mjm - 2010-04-16

    Do you mean config_gedcom.php? But that would again create identical tags for each page? What I wanted to do for example in $META_DESCRIPTION add the individual name, so that all meta descriptions are different. Similarly in $META_KEYWORDS would also make them different. How do I get these variables and insert them? I hope that I make sense!

     
  • Greg Roach

    Greg Roach - 2010-04-16

    I'm still unsure what you are trying to change (an example would help), but the code that writes these are in the theme's header files.

     
  • mjm

    mjm - 2010-04-16

    For example: every current  page has <meta name="description" content="Genealogy of the XXX Family" /> and is the same for all 1000 individuals in the dynamically created pages such as http://www.domain.com/phpgedview/individual.php?pid=IXX . I would Like to change that to someting like this <meta name="description" content="Genealogy of the Individula First Name of Individual Last Name of Individual" />

     
  • mjm

    mjm - 2010-04-16

    To make it more intersting and valuable it would help if I could insert the city, country etc as to where they were born
    <meta name="description" content="Genealogy of the Individul First Name of Individual Last Name of Individual, Birth Blace" />

     
  • Greg Roach

    Greg Roach - 2010-04-16

    But these keywords are already on the page, and the search engines will find them in context.  I'm not sure that there is anything to gain by repeating them.

     
  • mjm

    mjm - 2010-04-16

    But not in the description tag. What tag do they appear in. I am sort of retired now, but my previous SEO trail and error studies indicated that description tag is way up in the algoritham of Google.

     
  • Laie Techie

    Laie Techie - 2010-04-18

    Search engines use the content of the description meta-tag when displaying search results; it is not used for page rank.

     
  • mjm

    mjm - 2010-04-18

    That is absolutely right, as per comment 8. This is why I would like to modify the meta tag for description as I am getting all the descriptions the same. I would love to insert someting like  <meta name="description"  content="Genealogy of the Individul First Name of Individual Last Name of Individual, Birth Blace" />

     

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