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| carnuke | Posted: 2005/8/14 14:59 Updated: 2005/8/14 14:59 |
Just popping in   Joined: 2004/10/16 From: Posts: 13 |
 Re: Xoops Site SEO TIPsThanks, again for adding real substance and understanding to running a XOOPS website. Interestingly, One of the other factors you do not mention (here)is larrge volume of pages with similar content. I have a website with over 1000 pages of content and we enjoy very high ranking with google with certain keywords (alternative radical lifestyle) see HouseofStrauss at the top of the first page? Yeah, it's a tricky business 'guesing' what keywords searchers are using.
I use some of the tips and tricks featured on this website, so again THANKS to you all  Richard |
| tl001 | Posted: 2005/8/14 17:47 Updated: 2005/8/14 17:47 |
Webmaster  Joined: 2004/6/10 From: Posts: 282 |
Re: Xoops Site SEO TIPs carnuke: thanks for your kind words!
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| tl001 | Posted: 2005/8/14 17:50 Updated: 2005/8/14 17:50 |
Webmaster Joined: 2004/6/10 From: Posts: 282 |
Re: Xoops Site SEO TIPs - Page Titles and Cache The problem with page titles is that you can not use the Xoops cache feature. Xoops does not cache page titles - page titles would be lost if you were to enable cache.
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| JMorris | Posted: 2005/8/14 18:16 Updated: 2005/8/14 18:16 |
Just popping in Joined: 2005/7/10 From: Lost in thought Posts: 12 |
Re: Xoops Site SEO TIPs - Page Titles and Cache Quote:
The problem with page titles is that you can not use the Xoops cache feature. Xoops does not cache page titles - page titles would be lost if you were to enable cache. Useful piece of info there tl001. Thanks! ::runs off to check cache settings:: |
| DJ007 | Posted: 2005/8/19 23:26 Updated: 2005/8/19 23:26 |
Just popping in Joined: 2005/8/19 From: Posts: 2 |
Re: Xoops Site SEO TIPs Hi tl,
I'd been doing some SEO on Xoops and came across your articles, one of the comments by Herve (I think) was one that caught my eye; it's similar to a solution I've been playing with. <title><{if $story.title !=''}><{$story.title}><{/if}> :: <{if $xoops_pagetitle !=''}><{$xoops_pagetitle}><{/if}> :: <{$xoops_sitename}></title> $article.title wasn't necessary as xfsections seems to include it anyway. However, getting relevant keywords of the content being presented into the title tag is the real issue. My modification does the trick for adding a news items title except for 1 problem, it's including the anchor tags for the category link i.e. <a>cat name</a> Any ideas? I'm also toying with the idea of putting <{$xoops_pagetitle}> in the footer, what do ya think? David. |
| tl001 | Posted: 2005/8/20 10:26 Updated: 2005/8/20 11:36 |
Webmaster Joined: 2004/6/10 From: Posts: 282 |
Re: Xoops Site SEO TIPs Quote:
Hervé's suggestion is for the news module only. I prefer to assign xoops_pagetitle in each individual module to keep uniformality across the site. Pagetitle is very important but the weight assigned to it is becoming less and sitePR is gaining weight (according to our experience with Google). I don't have suggestion about your anchor tags - I never tried and I don't think I ever will. I think pagetitle is sufficient. I would not add pagetitle into the footer - you would have two pagetitles on the same page - could be labeled as key words stuffing. My suggestion - keep it simple and don't do too much about SEO. It can take ages to get out of penalties in case of Google. |
| DJ007 | Posted: 2005/8/21 14:21 Updated: 2005/8/21 14:21 |
Just popping in Joined: 2005/8/19 From: Posts: 2 |
Re: Xoops Site SEO TIPs I'd considered the keyword stuffing issue and why I'd held off using pagetitle in the footer, but the criteria for stuffing is far from having it appear top and bottom, if it's a proper article the word(s) are unlikely to be overused in the main body text.
Quote: Pagetitle is very important but the weight assigned to it is becoming less and sitePR is gaining weight (according to our experience with Google). Agreed, however, site PR is probably about to take a radical nose dive, or the criteria for it will be revamped radically at least. There's a new s/w that's been released by some enterprising marketers called blog submitter pro which essentially auto posts comments with links in anchor text/keywords. It was tested on a new domain with no content and got it #1 position for a very competitive keyword. Won't be long before Google figures it out and changes the algo for PR... Title and body text will remain a mainstay. David. |
| MustangV8 | Posted: 2005/11/5 16:58 Updated: 2005/11/5 16:58 |
Just popping in Joined: 2005/11/5 From: New Brunswick Canada Posts: 8 |
Re: Xoops Site SEO TIPs I have found an easier way to modify the page titles. It is much easier and it works with the main modules from Xoops.
The hacked files can be found here: http://www.herve-thouzard.com/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?cid=7&lid=66 The website is french but I don't think it should be a problem to install the hack. All you have to do is overwrite your existing files with the ones given to you. Just make sure you make a backup before. |
| stelian | Posted: 2006/5/9 9:52 Updated: 2006/5/9 9:52 |
Just popping in Joined: 2006/5/9 From: Posts: 1 |
Re: Xoops Site SEO TIPs Hi all.
A VERRY usefull thing for SEO is having keywords in urls. It would be ideal to have Title in URL. I started a topic on Xoops.org but I have no reply. |
| tl001 | Posted: 2006/5/9 11:04 Updated: 2006/5/9 11:11 |
Webmaster Joined: 2004/6/10 From: Posts: 282 |
Re: Xoops Site SEO TIPs Adding the title or keywords into the url requires customization to each individual module: changes to index.php or article.php file, in case of the news module.
The task will require a bit advanced knowledge of PHP string manipulation. If you plan to use ShortURLs/SimplifiedURLs, then you might well run into issues of connecting each word in the title. It might just whack the whole title. [edit]personally, title or key words in the url is overrated. Pagetitle is sufficient. [/edit] |
| fayssal | Posted: 2006/8/10 15:39 Updated: 2006/8/10 15:39 |
Just popping in Joined: 2006/1/31 From: Posts: 2 |
Re: Xoops Site SEO TIPs nice topic thx stelian
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