im new at this ... so please bare with me
i cant add the mod meta tags cause it will screw up my other mods that i have ..
can someone tell me what is the differance bewteen meta tags and seo urls ?
i guess 2 differnt meaning for rankings on google or what ?
if its important for meta tags can someone direct me to enable the meta tags or not ..
because im dealing with my city * montreal * would that be the meta tag ? and where do i place it or what are my options if so ?
Alright. The Abbreviation SEO stands for
"Search Engine Optimization". These urls are short 'n sweet and very organized:
Not SEO urls:
http://yourdomain.com/file.php?mode=logmein&url=97456&user=myuser&id=47
SEO url:
http://yourdomain.com/login/myuser/47/url-97456.html (--> or similar)
You see the difference between the two. It's more search engine friendly and also email friendly, the long and jittery urls will sometimes break in an email, but not the second url as shown above.
Meta tags are for solely used by search engines. It's information you want the search engines to identify the page by, especially in searching. However, now that search engines use more complex algorithms to gather information from the webpage, meta tags aren't used as much as they use too.
Best Regards.
These are my meta tags:
<meta name="description" content="The forum for MyBB tutorials on everything from installing and upgrading, to installing and uploading plugins and themes.">
<meta name="keywords" content="learn,MyBB,MyBulletinBoard,tutorial,install,installation,installing,upgrade,upgrading,merge,plugins,themes,php,css,script,templates,HTML,configuration,forums,posts,users,groups,tools,maintenance,support,information,FAQ,help">
Hopefully you can see how they're set out. Put this into your headerinclude template and you should be fine.
first and formost the support on this board is Excellent and both you guys are great at explaining things in details.
So as for "SEO URLS" its easier and nicier and optimized when the URLS are smaller and readable.
As for "Meta Tags" its more for displaying your website in the right categories as in description.
--------------------
Pizza All Dressed < meta tags > breaking it down ......
1.pepperoni <---- meta tag
2.cheese <----- meta tag
3.tomato sauce <----- meta tag
4.peppers <----- meta tag
this was example
Now the question is where is the meta tags.
Acp--> deafult-templates --> expand --> ????
You put the meta tags in (your template set) -> ungrouped templates -> headerinclude.
You put them in like this:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={$charset}" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript" />
<meta name="description" content="Put a description here about your website. This shouldn't be more than 250 characters!'">
<meta name="keywords" content="Put, keywords, here, seperated, by, commas">
<script type="text/javascript" src="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/jscripts/prototype.js?ver=1400"></script>
Those "meta tags" are actually keywords. Put them in the keywords content seperated by commas, and when people search for these, they should see your website in the results (depending on your ranking, of course!).
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="{$lang->latest_threads} (RSS 2.0)" href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/syndication.php" /><link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="{$lang->latest_threads} (Atom 1.0)" href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/syndication.php?type=atom1.0" /><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={$charset}" /><meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript" /><script type="text/javascript" src="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/jscripts/prototype.js?ver=1400"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/jscripts/general.js?ver=1400"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/jscripts/popup_menu.js?ver=1400"></script>{$stylesheets}<script type="text/javascript"><!-- var cookieDomain = "{$mybb->settings['cookiedomain']}"; var cookiePath = "{$mybb->settings['cookiepath']}"; var cookiePrefix = "{$mybb->settings['cookieprefix']}"; var deleteevent_confirm = "{$lang->deleteevent_confirm}"; var removeattach_confirm = "{$lang->removeattach_confirm}"; var loading_text = '{$lang->ajax_loading}'; var saving_changes = '{$lang->saving_changes}'; var use_xmlhttprequest = "{$mybb->settings['use_xmlhttprequest']}"; var my_post_key = "{$mybb->post_code}"; var imagepath = "{$theme['imgdir']}";// --></script><script type="text/javascript" src="jscripts/thx.js?ver=1400"></script> {$newpmmsg}{$sb_refresh}
just to be exact where would i put what you posted
so i dont mess up anything as im new and dont want to make mistakes
thank you ...
Under the other meta tags in the headerinclude template should be ok.
My opinion:
Meta Tags are more important than SEO urls.
In fact, google recommends that you
do not rewrite your urls. You can check it out on
google's blog
So, we know that we shouldn't re-write them, but why are meta tags important?
When you search google, you'll see a link, and a description for each search result. The link is the page title, and the description comes from the Meta description tag. If you don't have that tag, google will just use the first text on your site, which is normally something like "please register"
Take a look at this site that does not have proper meta tags
Well the meta keywords hardly do any good so don't focus much on that (description is important though). Also, I recommend Labrocca's meta tag plugin, it's paid but well worth it. Plus it's only a one time $5 fee (every year) but you get all his plugins, not just that one.
