[Unknown]

I've been looking around to make every single story page in Pligg have it's own meta description. So I got this idea, I went to the meta.tpl file:

I replaced:
<meta name="description" content="Blah Blah Blah" />

With:
<meta name="description" content="{$story_content}" />

Problem is, it appears blank when the page load (in page source/info). But it's quite an easy way to make every description distinct if only it worked. Maybe someone can let the meta.tpl file accept $stuff.

[graphicsguru]

Not sure if this what your looking for of if it will help its a great mod

http://forums.pligg.com/general-help...ge-google.html

[Unknown]

No in 9.8.2, the title already changes no?

My Modified to my tastes 9.8.2:
<title>{if isset($pretitle)}{$pretitle}{/if}{#PLIGG_Visual_Name#}{if isset($posttitle)} - {$navbar_where.text1}{/if}{if $pagename eq "story"} - {/if}{$navbar_where.text2}</title>

The link suggested:
{if $pagename eq "story"}
<title>{$posttitle|substr:3}</title>
{else}
<title>{$pretitle}{#PLIGG_Visual_Name#}{$posttit le }</title>
{/if}


What I meant was changing the description, so that in the Google search results, the description is right, not the title of your website repeated.

[blaze]

What version of Pligg are you using? In 9.82 this is already handled automatically. The STORY pages have their own unique meta description and keyword tags -- yet the CATEGORY pages do not. It pulls the description from the story content itself and it also pulls the keywords according to the tags that have been set for it.

Here's the code that goes into your meta.tpl file:

{if $meta_description neq ""}
	<meta name="description" content="{$meta_description}" />
{else}
	<meta name="description" content="Your generic meta description here." />
{/if}

{if $meta_keywords neq ""}
	<meta name="keywords" content="{$meta_keywords}" />
{else}
	<meta name="keywords" content="your, generic, keywords, here" />
{/if}

The problem we run into is not having control over the title and meta tags for CATEGORY pages (IE: http://yourdomain.com/category/CategoryOne). This really sucks and it is very difficult to get ranked for any of the category pages. I have been trying to play with unique titles for the category pages as well but can't get my code work, as shown here in this post.

[Divisive Cotton]

Originally Posted by blaze

What version of Pligg are you using? In 9.82 this is already handled automatically. The STORY pages have their own unique meta description and keyword tags -- yet the CATEGORY pages do not. It pulls the description from the story content itself and it also pulls the keywords according to the tags that have been set for it.

Here's the code that goes into your meta.tpl file:

{if $meta_description neq ""}
	<meta name="description" content="{$meta_description}" />
{else}
	<meta name="description" content="Your generic meta description here." />
{/if}

{if $meta_keywords neq ""}
	<meta name="keywords" content="{$meta_keywords}" />
{else}
	<meta name="keywords" content="your, generic, keywords, here" />
{/if}

The problem we run into is not having control over the title and meta tags for CATEGORY pages (IE: http://yourdomain.com/category/CategoryOne). This really sucks and it is very difficult to get ranked for any of the category pages. I have been trying to play with unique titles for the category pages as well but can't get my code work, as shown here in this post.

I was about to put a post up about this today - it would be great to have control of the meta description for categories...

In terms of SEO the separate category pages should be a real killer.

[blaze]

Originally Posted by Divisive Cotton

I was about to put a post up about this today - it would be great to have control of the meta description for categories...

In terms of SEO the separate category pages should be a real killer.

Well, since I couldn't really find a solution, I decided to just create "static" pages for my categories. I don't have many categories, so it wasn't too bad. I just have to update them about once every 2-3 days, so it looks good to Google. Took me about 3 minutes per category, as I had to make some adjustments to avoid the duplicate content penalty -- but otherwise, it seems to work. I modified the meta and titles, so all is good for now. But it would be great if we had more control over this in the backend.