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Is this possible (keywords)
Hi all,

Just wondering if this is possible....

I run a lyrics database, and when you have thousands of pages, entering the meta tags - Keywords can get tiresome, what i would like to do is on the catergory pages and detailed pages is insert a piece of code that would enter the keywords automatically by taking the names of the subcatergories or listings insert them into the keywords.

For example one of my catergories is B

under B i have the folowing categories:

B - Britney Spears - (a list of her songs)
B - Bon jovi - (a list of his songs)

So when a user clicks on the B link, the page would strip out the subcatergory names and add them to the pages keywords like so: Britney spears, bon jovi,

And again when they click on for example britney spears that page would strip out the names/title of the listing/lyrics in that catergory.

I hope i have not confused anyone here but i doubt that because even i am confused, i just thought i would ask and if it is possible how would i go about doing it.

Thanks before hand
Kirk


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Re: [mekro] Is this possible (keywords) In reply to
Try putting this inside the metatag:

<%loop category_loop%><%Name%><%endloop%>

It may be Short_Name rather than Name - I can't remember.
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Re: [afinlr] Is this possible (keywords) In reply to
so this would be possible

<%loop category_loop%>Great links to <%Name%> Add your site for free!<%endloop%>

Or something like that....
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Re: [Gypsypup] Is this possible (keywords) In reply to
I think you would probably want

Great links to <%loop category_loop%><%Name%><%endloop%> Add your site for free!

Otherwise the text is repeated for each subcategory.
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Re: [afinlr] Is this possible (keywords) In reply to
Thanks for that - was looking for an easy way to get the metatag into 2,500 categories easily.
Thanks heaps.
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Re: [mekro] Is this possible (keywords) In reply to
You do realize google ignores any meta data ??? And if they use it, they use it to DROP your page rank if it's not consistent with the rest of the content on the page, or if it repeats too often.

They rank VISIBLE content only, and seem to even be looking at font tags and background colors where they can.

Invisible content is *not* considered useful data. That is one of the things they tell you up front.

The meta tags originally were there to help spiders index content, but it was abused to the point where they are useless.

Some of my highest ranked pages have "insert your keywords here" for the meta tags. :) and they are not displayed in the searches, but the string containing the words nearest the search term is.

If you are looking to get into directories, make sure you put your keywords/descriptions on the home page of your site (it makes it easier for someone adding you to a directory to grab your data) and *maybe* on the top level categories. Beyond that.... it might actually work against you because it's "hidden" data and can be interpreted as trying to "rig" your listing -- especially if you are blindly inserting data into them.


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Re: [pugdog] Is this possible (keywords) In reply to
Hi Pugdog,

I've just been thinking about this. I'm sure that I've read a post somewhere about how to include metatags only on pages which are displayed to search engines but I can't find it. I wonder whether it would be possible to choose the search engines that you display the metatags for ...
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Re: [afinlr] Is this possible (keywords) In reply to
Makes it all very difficult for anyone to figure out what to do really. Seems to really be a highly specialist area and if anyone is serious the services of our friend fom India who posts in these forums needs to be utilized.
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Re: [afinlr] Is this possible (keywords) In reply to
I think you can use robots.txt and rewrite rules to do this, as well as the ENV tags.

If the robots set an environment tag (referrer, agent, etc) you can use that to set an <%if%> in the templates to include meta data if it's a directory crawler, no meta data for google or in general (google may not always identify it'self when checking or validating the data it finds just for these reasons).

There are some good sites out there with information on this, and robots, but I don't have them bookmarked here.


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