Thanks Dave
Not really but it’s a good start
- looks straight forward. Give me hint on changing the $metaKeywords to lower case.
As to the <title></title> tag (that's what I meant), it is the single most important factor, followed by the description. They keywords don't weight much because of abuse. I've got hundreds of #1 listings
to back that up. Look up chef forums, chef discussions, chef community, chef guide at google…
The title tag now displays the header-insert from the admin panel. That contains the phrase “Chef Guide Community Forums” which I can add to the metaKeywords and metaDescription easy enough to at least retain top billing with my main theme.
Here’s the kicker. If the thread subject is on “canning vegetables”, that now appears in the description and keywords, it won’t get you past page 3 of the search engine output. (no one will find it). Would it also appear in the <title></title>, with a good page ranking and a text body that speaks about canning vegetables, you’re top ten.
So the exercise really won’t yield much, other than some stray hits. So I think it is very important for the success of forum operators to address this issue in future releases so we don’t have to violate copyrights.
Fred Roosli
Chef2Chef.Net
