some serious SEO for phpnuke

Sergeant Joined: Sep 01, 2003 Posts: 77

Hallo,
my programming skilss in PHP are close to zero, but i'm trying to make some serious Search engine optimizations at my site http://www.yummyfood.net

Surfing this forums, and the internet, i found some usefull things about dynamic pagetitle, different metatags for each modules, BUT i think is not enough

I already did:
optimized dynamic title (eg. sitename - forumname - forumtopic is not good. we need: topicname in the forumname at sitename)
I used a script called my-titles.php that override the default title of phpnuke.
different meta.php file for each module, so i can have different keywords
this was done by modifying the header.php

It is still insufficient, so what i want to do is:

one meta.php file each module that manage
dynamic title
dynamic description
dynamic keywords
different revisit after X days

actually i'm approaching the problem making queries to the database for titles, and another query for the meta description and keywords (the first 200 chars of a post or a new or an encyclopedia term) but i'd like to make the less possible queries to the DB

Anyone is working at the same issue?
Ciao
Guido

Premium Joined: Jul 17, 2003 Posts: 47

Although the first release of nukeSEO is focused on optimizing the index page, I am planning to incorporate both dynamic titles and META tags / keywords by module. Dynamic description sounds interesting, as well as different revisit after x days. How would you use different revisit, and what benefits would you hope to gain from doing that?

My approach would be to have a meta.php file for each module, and use it to get the description and keywords (and possibly revisit). If a module didn't have a meta.php file, it would use the one in /includes.

Sergeant Joined: Sep 01, 2003 Posts: 77

that's what i've done.
I have a different meta.php for each module
I've also dynamic description for the "core business" module (recipes)
There is no need for SE to scan content that doesnt change (like a recipe) daily, so thet's why the revisit after.. on the contrary, forums are continuosly changing and they need a different revisit.
the next step would be dynamic file names with modrewrite
(example recipe title = boiled eggs mod rewrite file name = boiled-eggs.html instead of a crappy recipe200.html)

other improvements are needed in the web-links:
http://www.mysite.com/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=visit&lid=182
this is considered an internal link, IMHO not really usefull for google,
the weblink module should show the exact url.

Guido

Premium Joined: Jul 17, 2003 Posts: 47

I'm not sure the modrewrite will do much to improve rankings, especially in Google, even if the names are meaningful. Google's latest incarnation focuses on the content of the page above all - and having a Google sitemap really helps. Then again, modrewrite shouldn't hurt your rankings, and it might help with other search engines...

Sergeant Joined: Sep 01, 2003 Posts: 77

My google rank is pretty crap, I do not have a lot of sites linking to me
neither I have a lot of links either.
I get anyway 400 to 600 referals from yahoo every day,and on the top 20 for almost all my keywords.
I've been told MSN search consider filenames very important, and pretty much ignoring metatags...
About the unique content, it's always true, but in my case (recipes, cooking hints tricks and tecniques) it's very hard ...
I guess "recipes" just come after "sex" as quantity of indexed documets LOL Anyway, i'm gonna say i'm happy about my results...
Guido

Private Joined: Dec 29, 2005 Posts: 38

please see the web directory hack I made on http://www.e-oferta.ro so that links transfer PR, because now are static links.

Private Joined: Dec 29, 2005 Posts: 38

please see the web directory hack I made on http://www.e-oferta.ro so that links transfer PR, because now are static links.

Sergeant Joined: Sep 01, 2003 Posts: 77

Looks good!
Nice hack, any chance to see the code?
Guido

Corporal Joined: Sep 21, 2003 Posts: 60

if you want to have different meta.php, I think it is possible, just edit header.php

include("includes/meta.php");

add for example:

if ($name=='Web_Links') {
include("includes/WebLinksmeta.php");
}

Sergeant Joined: Sep 01, 2003 Posts: 77

I did different: I have now a meta.php for each module
and i changed header.php like this

Code:

//include("includes/meta.php"); <-- original commented out

if (isset($module_name) && file_exists("modules/$module_name/meta.php")) {
include("modules/$module_name/meta.php"); }
else {
include("includes/meta.php");
}

Corporal Joined: Sep 21, 2003 Posts: 60

I just realized you asked this question almost a year ago.. Very Happy

by the way, your solution is much better.. Smile

Sergeant Joined: Sep 01, 2003 Posts: 77

yeah! this thread is rather old, I just replied to meetzah about his hack to the weblinks module.

Private Joined: Dec 29, 2005 Posts: 38

Guidyy wrote:

Looks good!
Nice hack, any chance to see the code?
Guido

please go to http://phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7725