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Kimber
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Jul 23, 2005, 2:07 PM
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I am looking for a way to do meta tags on the articles and found: "Add meta generator tag and timestamp." If I check this, will it make meta tags on the articles.
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Kimberly
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Cliff
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Jul 24, 2005, 10:03 AM
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Hi Kimberly,
Thanks for posting and welcome to the discussion forum!
The setting that you have found there just adds a little date stamp to the published pages. So it will look something like this in the HTML of your articles pages if you have that turned on:
<!-- Last Updated Jul 23rd, 2005 - 16:30:34 -->
<html><head>
<meta name="generator" content="">
<title>MOVIES Article</title>
Here's how you can setup Article Manager to publish meta keywords and descriptions on each article 
First, you'll need to create new database fields for keywords and descriptions. This can be done from in Setup Options in the Article Fields section of the General tab. Select a couple unused fields, fill out their names appropriately, select textfield as their type, hit the enabled checkbox and hit the save button. Now, whenever you are in the Article Editor, these two fields will show up and let your writers add meta content for each article. I'll just article field 7 and 8 for this example.
You'll probably want to create a few test articles with values in the new fields you just setup. That will give us some data to work with in the next step.
The next step will be to add placeholders to your article template so that each article reads the data from your two new fields. To do that, all you need to do is open up your article templates (/templates/article/default.html) and add the following code to the <head> section:
<meta name="keywords" content="$art_field7$">
<meta name="description" content="$art_field8$">
The only thing you may need to change is which field number is called. You'll need to match up the $art_field7$ and $art_field8$ with how you setup your database in the first step. Once you add this to the template, you'll need to republish your articles but then that's it.
There a couple things you should know about Meta tags.
Meta tags have never been a guaranteed way to gain a top ranking on crawler-based search engines. Today, the most valuable feature they offer the web site owner is the ability to control to some degree how their web pages are described by some search engines. However all the major search engines, for example Google, ignore the meta description tag and instead will automatically generate its own description for this page based on the content. Others may support it partially, but it certainly not a magic solution for search engine optimization. The best way to get a higher ranking is with relevant content.
I hope that explains that for you but let me know if you need any more help.
Regards,
Cliff Stefanuk - Customer Service Manager
support@interactivetools.com
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com1usa
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Feb 23, 2006, 11:43 AM
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wonderful... boy this is a gteat piece of software...
now another question, can I use this mod to create a custom page title to each article? Or do I have to do that by creating a custom template for each article?
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Cliff
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Hi com1usa,
Thanks for the kudos!
Article Manager should do this for you right off the start, but if you want to make sure that it's doing this for you just make sure that your <title> tag on your default article template looks like this:
<title>$art_name_he$</title>
That will create a custom page title to each article
Regards,
Cliff Stefanuk - Customer Service Manager
support@interactivetools.com
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TerriZ
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May 2, 2006, 11:33 AM
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I'm trying to do something similar. I've put the following into an ssi file which I include in all of my index pages (so if I want to change my keywords universally, I don't have to edit each of my 10+ templates):
<title>Expert solo and small business online assistance | $cat_breadcrumb</title>
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Solo-E.com: a lifestyle-inspired online learning and connection community, dedicated to the success of Solo Entrepreneurs worldwide | solo and small business online assistance">
<META NAME="keywords" content="solo and small business online assistance, solo entrepreneur, solo community, ecommerce bzb portal, distance learning, online learning, articles, ebooks, teleclasses">
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
<META name="revisit-after" content="7 days"> However, when the index page is published, it shows the first line like this:
<title>Expert solo and small business online assistance | $cat_breadcrumb$</title>
i.e., it doesn't parse the $cat_breadcrumb$
Ideas of why this isn't working?
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Terri Z
It isn't just about the business -- it's about the lifestyle!
www.Solo-E.com
Terri Zwierzynski
Solo-E.com -- Resources for the Solo Entrepreneur Lifestyle
"..because it's not just about the business!"
Finalist for "Website of the Year" in 2007 Stevie(r) Awards for Women in Business
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Donna
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May 2, 2006, 4:43 PM
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Dear Terri,
If you're putting the placeholder in a non-Article Manager generated page, it won't parse it. Placeholders can only be placed in templates, they won't be parsed anywhere else.
What you could do is have the title tag hardcoded into the templates, then pull in the meta tags via an SSI, rather than having the title tag in your SSI as well.
I hope this helps. :)
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TerriZ
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May 2, 2006, 6:19 PM
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Got it! Yes that would work fine, just a cut and paste...
Thanks!
Terri Z
Terri Zwierzynski
Solo-E.com -- Resources for the Solo Entrepreneur Lifestyle
"..because it's not just about the business!"
Finalist for "Website of the Year" in 2007 Stevie(r) Awards for Women in Business
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