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    Posted by hetulk posts: 53 India

    Hello,

    Can anyone tell me, what is happening on SEO front? I am using tw 1.8 and need to get Customized Page Titles and Description...

    Is there any patch, module or any modification that I can apply in order to achieve this?

    Our website has nice contents but takes beating in search engines because of the uniform title throughout the website...

    I desperately need some assistance on this one... any thoughts anyone?

    Thanks
    hk

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    Posted by hetulk posts: 53 India

    I got an IDEA...

    Is there a way to get the WIKI Page DESCRIPTION To appear in the TITLE?

    Currently, while creating wiki page, we can put description and this description is then used in the META TAGS...

    What can we do to make it appear in the TITLE TAG ALSO?

    Awaiting reply!

    Thanks
    hk

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    Posted by hetulk posts: 53 India
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    {if $description ne ''}{/if}


    the above code displays the description from the WIKI Page...

    and below is the code for TITLE Tag... now, somehow we need to get the description to appear in the title... I think only some minor change is required but just cant figure out what needs to be changed..

    Does any one if and how this would work? kindly help... I think, if implemented it would be a wonderful trick...

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    {$siteTitle}
{if $page ne ''} : {$page|escape}
{elseif $headtitle} : {$headtitle}
{elseif $title ne ''} : {$title}
{elseif $thread_info.title ne ''} : {$thread_info.title}
{elseif $forum_info.name ne ''} : {$forum_info.name}
{/if}

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    Posted by sylvie greverend posts: 1092

    You are very close .. if I understand well
    Yes the place is header.tpl
    If you do

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    {if $page ne ''} : {$page|escape} - {$description|escape}
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    sylvie

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    Posted by hetulk posts: 53 India

    sylvie, i just got 2 words for you...

    You Rock


    It actually took me about 4 months to realise that we can use a trick like this to help us get better placements in the SearchEngines..

    Has this been done before? or is it that we are the 1st ones to do it? ;)

    Thanks a ton.

    hk

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    Posted by sylvie greverend posts: 1092

    Thanks biggrin

    Probably it has been done before - but putting the description in the title is very specific to an application. I don't think it can be in tiki cvs..... a comment perhaps
    sylvie

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    Posted by aharon posts: 24

    I remember reading a few months ago about an implementation for 1.9... This code here seems very interesting..
    Does it work as it is, or do I need to make some changes for it to work?

    On my 1.8.3 version's header there is:
    {if $description ne ''} meta name="description" content="{$description}" / {/if}
    But I do not think bots pick the description up...

    Any experiences?

    Aharon

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    Posted by sylvie greverend posts: 1092
    Bots take desacription (at least goggle) but the priority is so low .... Titles have better return (but don't forget the size limitation)
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    Posted by Arnaud HERVE posts: 179 France
    Maybe we need a field on top of wiki edit page called "Keywords", a field meant not to be displayed, but accessible to search engines.
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    Posted by hetulk posts: 53 India

    may be put the keywords in the COMMENTS and then somehow show the comment of the wikipage in the Keywords Metatag?

    Just a wild thought...

    any comments?

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    Posted by sylvie greverend posts: 1092

    You can already put some global metatags wiht the feature admin-> metatags->keywords
    But they will be the same for each page .....
    Some bots don't like you put keywords that are not in your page - so be carefull

    There is no keyword specific in tiki now ... But it can be pretty easy to do it
    In templates/header.tpl use the $info.comment for instance. All the page info are in $info, you can have the nfotype name by looking at the columns of the table tiki_pages (a column comment so you can use $info.comment)
    sylvie

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