Control of meta description - categories

[blaze]

Originally Posted by Divisive Cotton

To be fair though, the hack that you provided was only given to the community on December 24, so it would be hard to incorporate that into a readme document.

And to be honest, I don't think that the developers should recommend hacks into the core files...

I must have about 15 or more hacks (sorry, mods ) on my site now...

Which is fine, they do the job I want them to... for this version... but getting worried about upgrading to the next Pligg version... when it comes...

Yes, I won't be upgrading for a long while. They will be switching into something entirely new I believe with v1.0 -- which means none of the hacks or mods available anywhere on the forums will likely work. 9.8.2 is a good version and pretty stable -- so I'm happy.

[Divisive Cotton]

Originally Posted by blaze

Yes, I won't be upgrading for a long while. They will be switching into something entirely new I believe with v1.0 -- which means none of the hacks or mods available anywhere on the forums will likely work. 9.8.2 is a good version and pretty stable -- so I'm happy.

I'm not going to upgrade straight away...

But as a rule when it comes to CMS' you should upgrade to the latest version for security reasons...

[AshDigg]

Originally Posted by blaze

Yes, I won't be upgrading for a long while. They will be switching into something entirely new I believe with v1.0 -- which means none of the hacks or mods available anywhere on the forums will likely work. 9.8.2 is a good version and pretty stable -- so I'm happy.

Thats not true. v1.0 will be similar to 9.8.2 and 9.9 which will be released withing the next 24 hours.

[blaze]

Originally Posted by AshDigg

Thats not true. v1.0 will be similar to 9.8.2 and 9.9 which will be released withing the next 24 hours.

Wow... that's cool! I read somewhere here in the forums that v1.0 was perhaps leaving the smarty template system and switching to something else. That's a major relief!!

[web20guy]

Originally Posted by blaze

Am I to presume that this result is actually correct, and if so, is this good news? Or does it take a while before these errors (if any) have shown up?

This particular site I used as an example is only about 7 weeks old, with only about 650 pages indexed thus far -- which is about where it should be at as far as story/category count goes.

Should be good news but not sure how long it take.


Here are our results from G's webmaster tools This site born on date is may 27, 2007. At one time there were 10000 pages index (dup content) but the site is only and 4400 pages, with 3500 of those being submissions.

On the 24th Dec I reported 400+ dup titles and as you can see thats down to 136. Reading and implementing, what makes sense, the seo threads that are posted on these forums has brought that down.


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Title tag issues Pages

Missing title tags 1
Duplicate title tags 136
Long title tags 0
Short title tags 0
Non-informative title tags 0

Meta description issues Pages

Duplicate meta descriptions 6047
Long meta descriptions 0
Short meta descriptions 6274

Non-indexable content issues Pages

We didn't detect any issues with non-indexable content on your site.
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A little work on the robots.txt and and htaccess seems to have cleared up some of the dup content but as you can see there are still over 6000 pages with duplicate meta's and about the same in descriptions which is coming from category's and tags pages still in G's database. Current index now shows 3580 pages which is just about right consider some pages are not allowed to be indexed. Your fix in this thread will fix that but as a mentioned before, a huge task as we have a more than the averages bear's categories.

A change like this on a large site is risky and we have seen a decline in serp's referrals, but still 83% of the traffic comes from the serp's. Done quick, it appears we didnt suffer to badly and we expect the traffic to return to full strength within 30 days.

[juanmartinbravo]

When I upload the meta.tpl i get this error:

PHP Code:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSEIF in /home/.fuzzbuster/aliytito/estosesale.com/news/templates_c/c_23544cf8f4da42d824ceda7424ac9930.php on line 50 


Every time I change something in the template or the pligg.tpl, meta.tpl files I get parse errors! I tought it was cause the template, but it also happens with yget
[1 week ago I was mading some change on the adsense sidebar. I wanted to change the title from Publicidad to Sponsored Links and it gave me parse errors... The only way I could fixed was changing ALSO Publicidad to Sponsored Links on the template_c file that was giving me the error!]

The file that is giving me the error right now contains that:

PHP Code:

<?php /* V2.10 Template Lite 4 January 2007  (c) 2005-2007 Mark Dickenson. All rights reserved. Released LGPL. 2007-12-29 18:32:28 PST */ ?>


        
<?php if ($this->_vars['meta_description'] != ""): ?>
    <meta name="description" content="<?php echo $this->_vars['meta_description']; ?>
" />
<?php else: ?>
    <meta name="description" content="Esto Se Sale 2.o. Manda y vota las noticias mas relevantes del mundo de la tecnologia y multimedia" />
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ($this->_vars['meta_keywords'] != ""): ?>
    [b]<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo $this->_vars['meta_keywords']; ?>
 multimedia, tecnología" />
<?php else: ?>
    <meta name="keywords" content="audio, internet, ordenadores, video, sonido, reproductores, musica, informatica, gadgets" />
<?php endif; ?>[/b]
    <meta name="Language" content="es-ES" />
<meta name="copyright" content="Juan Martin" />
<meta name="revisit-after" content="1 day" />
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />

I know that if I modify that file it will work, but why my f+ck+ng pligg do what tempates_c files do??? I guess it should do what sidebar.tpl, pligg.tpl, or whatever file says, but NOOOO.... my crazy pligg only do what is written on his template_c files
Every time I have to make a hack I have to change 2 files, the ones for the hack, which is normal, and another one from templates_c which is.... crazy.

I tried to delete all the files on template_c before changing anything, but after deleting them I Irefresh to see if they really have been deleted and....they are back even if I don't upload nothing, so it won't work... These files never dissapear!

Anyone can help me?

Maybe I should delete and re-install my pligg

Hope you can help althoug it looks pretty strange

Thanks

[blaze]

Juan, the template_c files are created "on-the-fly" whenever someone accesses the site. So yes, if you're deleting them, but at the same time someone accesses your site, then those files will be re-written and when you refresh, you will see that the folder is not empty. Just delete them again.

DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING in you template_c folder. It's not needed. Just empty it then access your page. If you have to keep emptying it, then keep doing it until it's empty.

Yes, it can be a pain if you have a busy site, but why not just create a subfolder, install pligg into that, then make all the necessary changes needed. When it's working as it should, then transfer those files over to your pligg install? You should not be updating your site LIVE with patches and fixes that you haven't even tried yet -- always apply mods to a test site first, then transfer over the fixes.

I have no idea what file you posted your code from -- but it's not from a tpl file, which is where these fixes are to be applied (excluding the index.php hack.)

[juanmartinbravo]

Thanks blaze, but I don't think the problem is that when I delete the files someone enter to the site because I just did 20 unique visitors yesterday!

Anyway I'm gonna move my pligg installation from estosesale.com/news to estosesale.com(as I should have been done before.....) Hope I can do it with backup & restore.
Once I got it restored at estosesale.com I'll retry to apply that fixes, hope it works then...

[wwwSENSERELYcom]

show us the meta.tpl file that you upload. Obviously it has a mistake in it, and that's all there is to it!

[juanmartinbravo]

Hello

I have moved my pligg installation from estosesale.com/news to estosesale.com but the problem persists.
I have discodered that the problem is with my templates_c folder, because in that case I'm trying to change meta tags, but if I try to change the design of the template, add a box to the sidebar I receive same kind of errors.
In summary the problem appears when I try to change the something in the source code.

Moreover I have installed pligg on another subdomain (after applying the same hacks, tricks and mods that I got at estosesale.com) and it works. So no doubt, the problem is somewhere in my installation.

I will delete the hostname, db, etcetera and create a new installation