ive just been searching mybb forums on how to add keywords and i came across this in a post
<meta name="description" content="Add description here"/>
<meta name="keywords" content="Add any keywords here"/>
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow"/>
<meta name="author" content="This is optional but add your name if you wish"/>
then i began to search for some tips on using keywords and it turns out that google doesnt use the meta tag anymore. So, regarding the templates in mybb forum, does anyone know what I can add and where in order to get keywords integrated in my forum?
I'd really appreciate your help.
Keywords are petty much useless, as is the robots tag if you're using a robots.txt file (which is IMO the best way). The author tag isn't all that useful at the minute either really - you can always use a humans.txt if you really want to make it clear who created your site.
As for where you place them, you should avoid duplicating meta descriptions at all. I'd therefore advise using a plugin to auto generate them for threads and stuff (Google SEO does this very well in my experience) and manually add them to templates for pages such as the index.
The only tag you have that isn't useless is "description", but for a forum it will probably just hurt your SEO unless you can make it the contents of the original post - not sure if MyBB's template system allows that. Perhaps a plugin can.
No search engine follows keywords anymore, robots was replaced with robots.txt, and author was replaced with humans.txt.
wow things are changing quickly. only the smartest will survive ay? ok i best knock it up a notch. Thanks for this useful info by the way.
so there's a plugin i install from mybb or is it from google?
(2012-12-26, 12:31 AM)riskymonk Wrote: [ -> ]wow things are changing quickly. only the smartest will survive ay? ok i best knock it up a notch. Thanks for this useful info by the way.
so there's a plugin i install from mybb or is it from google?
Figure out if you can put the contents of the first post in the description tag using just template edits. I'm not sure if it's possible, but it will be faster than a plugin if it is.
If not, install this beast:
http://mods.mybb.com/view/google-seo
It does a lot of things, including URL rewriting. One of the features is meta descriptions. I don't think it covers humans.txt but that doesn't affect SEO, it's just a way of attributing your work at a source code level. Learn:
http://humanstxt.org
Here's Google's PDF starter guide on SEO if you want to learn more from the one source that matters most:
http://static.googleusercontent.com/exte...-guide.pdf
(2012-12-26, 02:01 AM)CAwesome Wrote: [ -> ] (2012-12-26, 12:31 AM)riskymonk Wrote: [ -> ]wow things are changing quickly. only the smartest will survive ay? ok i best knock it up a notch. Thanks for this useful info by the way.
so there's a plugin i install from mybb or is it from google?
Figure out if you can put the contents of the first post in the description tag using just template edits. I'm not sure if it's possible, but it will be faster than a plugin if it is.
If not, install this beast: http://mods.mybb.com/view/google-seo
It does a lot of things, including URL rewriting. One of the features is meta descriptions. I don't think it covers humans.txt but that doesn't affect SEO, it's just a way of attributing your work at a source code level. Learn: http://humanstxt.org
Here's Google's PDF starter guide on SEO if you want to learn more from the one source that matters most: http://static.googleusercontent.com/exte...-guide.pdf
Youve been a huge help and that pdf file is exactly what I need thank you very much