Meta tags

[RuralWeb]

My god I thought this bug was dead and burried. It's been arround since v8 was released on and off so I don't see why it's not going to fixed now.

Although we all know meta tags are a waste of time it's nice to have a website that works.

[meden]

Although we all know meta tags are a waste of time it's nice to have a website that works.

I thought the Meta Description was used by Google - or have they changed algorithms again?

[cdicken]

Hi there

I'll look in to this and try and get it included in 9.0.3

Further to Nadeem's solution, if you just replace the whole of the layout 'Standard Meta Tags' with the following code, it all works fine...

   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
   <meta http-equiv="MSThemeCompatible" content="yes" />
<actinic:block if="%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22Section%22%20AND%20%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22Brochure%22%29%20OR%20%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsStoreFrontPage%22%20%2f%3e" >
   <actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22GlbMetaKeywords%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%22" >
	<meta name="keywords" content="<actinic:variable name="GlbMetaKeywords" />" />
   </actinic:block>
   <actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22GlbMetaDescription%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%22" >
	<meta name="description" content="<actinic:variable name="GlbMetaDescription" />" />
   </actinic:block>
</actinic:block>
<actinic:block if="%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22Section%22%20OR%20%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22Brochure%22%29%20AND%20%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsStoreFrontPage%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20FALSE" >
	<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22MetaKeywords%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%22" >
	<meta name="keywords" content="<actinic:variable name="MetaKeywords" />" />
	</actinic:block>
	<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22MetaDescription%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%22" >
	<meta name="description" content="<actinic:variable name="MetaDescription" />" />
	</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>

[leehack]

Please do Chris, if not, you are in grave danger of overshadowing what should be a great release, with silly little annoying problems. This would be on a par with the Firefox security issue that was decided to let roll IMO.

I think I speak for most people when I say that we are not interested in bells and whistles if fundamentals are not right. If it's as easy as you suggest, there can't be much stopping you add it. Please, please, please get the head area and the good changes you have made in that area working correctly before you release.

[Mike Hughes]

Chris, Are you sure that code is correct?

It seems to be saying:

If (brochure page & site frontpage):

If (Global meta keywords) then Include Global Meta keywords

If (Global meta Description) then Include Global Meta description

endif

If (Brochure page and not frontpage)

If (meta keywords) then Include Meta keywords

If (meta description) then Include Meta description

endif

What happens of you don't want global meta tags on the frontpage (or indeed do want them in the brochure pages) ?

Edit: OK. Maybe brochure pages don't have subsections (or can they now). What about the non global meta tags on the front page?

Or am I misunderstanding the global meta tags? I thought they were the ones that include all the meta content from underlying sections.

Mike

[plantsforshade]

Hi

For the record, implimenting the code supplied by Chris does seems to work perfectly, with the meta tags and descriptions showing on all pages now.

Regards

Nigel

[cdicken]

Mike - what it's saying is...

If (it's any page OTHER than a brochure page or a section page OR it's the site frontpage):

If (Global meta keywords) then Include Global Meta keywords

If (Global meta Description) then Include Global Meta description

endif

If (it's a brochure page or a section page AND it's not the store frontpage)

If (meta keywords) then Include Meta keywords

If (meta description) then Include Meta description

endif

[robinantill]

Meta Tags not working

I am also having problems with the meta description and meta key words not being inherited from the global meta tags or normal tags.

I have set INCLUDE PARENT META CONTENT IN EACH SECTION to TRUE.

I have replaced the code in the Layout code to what Chris has posted.

However it still is not working.

I have posted the site on the following:-
http://www.playhousesonline.co.uk/acatalog/index.html
http://www.playhousesonline.co.uk/ac...Christmas.html
(ignore the colours at the moment)

Any help would be gratefully received.

Regards,
Robin

[TraceyG]

Hi Robin,

The code that Chris pasted works fine for me but let me clear something up:

'INCLUDE PARENT META CONTENT IN EACH SECTION to TRUE'

This should really read 'Include Parent Meta Keywords in Each Section' as it does not include 'meta description' from parent sections (I've raised this with development). Also, the global keywords (the ones entered into the 'Online Catalogue' details) will not appear in the sections - only those from the top level sections downwards. If you want the global ones to appear on sections then replace:

<meta name="keywords" content="<actinic:variable name="MetaKeywords" />" />

with:

<meta name="keywords" content="<actinic:variable name="GlbMetaKeywords" />, <actinic:variable name="MetaKeywords" />" />

[robinantill]

Hi Tracey,
Thanks for your reply, appreciated as always.
I will give that a try and see how I get on.
Regards,
Robin

[Donna Kempster]

Before I try to implement this change does anyone know if it was inlcuded in 9.0.3 ? Cheers D

[Steve G Griggs]

After reading this thread (I have not had the problem) I can only say "I don't believe it!", how can something so elementary get missed out.
However as Google is attching less importance to meta-tags, and more to relevant page content, HTML tags, relevant page names, relevant links to and from sites etc. This may not be of such importance in the future....
But that's not to try and make the persistance of such a bug seem irrelevant, it's not when we pay good money for e-commerce software that is billed as SEO friendly.

[Runner]

I don't know if it applies to v9 but see this thread I started for v8.5.1


http://community.actinic.com/showthr...718#post247718

It may help?