Meta Keywords?

I remember years ago there was an option in vbseo to have a max number of meta keywords? I can't seem to find it or any option within vbulletin to limit the number of meta keywords...am I missing something here?

Originally Posted by gcc llc

I remember years ago there was an option in vbseo to have a max number of meta keywords? I can't seem to find it or any option within vbulletin to limit the number of meta keywords...am I missing something here?

Anyone?

Hello ,

vBSEO never had a limit setting for meta description.

WAs there an option in vbulletin and is there an option now?

There was a limit on the URL length, I thought there was an option to limit the description. Maybe that's what the OP is talking about?

Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

There was a limit on the URL length, I thought there was an option to limit the description. Maybe that's what the OP is talking about?

Yeah I remember that but I could have sworn somewhere there was a limit to hw many meta keywords were created. (whether vb or vbseo)


Reason being with Panda/Penguin I doubt you want threads with 50+ meta keywords, with urls as keywords as well as stop words.

I never had that before and I just checked recently the source code for a long thread and the amt of keywords was staggering.

Originally Posted by gcc llc

Yeah I remember that but I could have sworn somewhere there was a limit to hw many meta keywords were created. (whether vb or vbseo)


Reason being with Panda/Penguin I doubt you want threads with 50+ meta keywords, with urls as keywords as well as stop words.

I never had that before and I just checked recently the source code for a long thread and the amt of keywords was staggering.

I don't have a fresh install handy to check it out, but have you gone down all the vbseo settings?

Yeah. We just edited the code to only include 6 keywords.

Originally Posted by gcc llc

Yeah. We just edited the code to only include 6 keywords.

That works too

I would suggest everyone to check their and see how many keywords they have in some threads....don't think that help with Panda/Penguin. I know the importance in terms of ranking has been almost limited/non existence, but I suspect if you do have large amounts of keywords in there they could consider it keyword stuffing...not to mention its grabbing words from posts that have zero relevance.

As an examples:

404 / 301 Tool After Import Redirect on ImpEx imported forums

For this link this is what you get. Thats not good...


<meta name="keywords" content="404,301,Tool,After,Import,Redirect,ImpEx,imported, forums,rewritecond, rewriterule, %query_string, %request_filename, rewritebase, note, [l,r=301], enabled, beginning, disable, %http_host, vbseo301.php?action=thread&amp;oldurl=%1, ^forum-dis1/forum_posts.asp$, rewriteengine, tid=[0-9]+, fid=[0-9]+, ^forum-dis1/forum_topics.asp$, ^www.disabiliforum.com, vbseo301.php?action=forum&amp;oldurl=%1, http://www.disabiliforum.com/forum/$1, remove, vbseo.php, deflate, [l,qsa], %request_uri, vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1, ^urllist|sitemap.xml|txt.gz?$, admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap|api.php, ^.+$, /forum, /admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images, ^archive.php?$, require, servers, include, directive, path, folder, activate, vb, root, /forums, panel, deny, allow,deny, order, addoutputfilterbytype, text/css, text/xml, text/plain" />