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    modify meta description

    Hi,

    I'd like to use the meta description replacement from vbseo, but want to add bbtitle in front of it for threadview and forumview. how to do that?

    <meta description = "[site title] - [vbseo forum description, blah blah blah]">
    <meta description = "[site title] - [vbseo thread description, blah blah blah]">

    i know i can change it in headinclude if i turn of vbseo description, but i want to use vbseo description. i just need to add the site title on it.

    thanks

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    anyone, please

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    You can customize your meta within headinclude template but it is not suggested to include site title to your meta descriptions.
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    as mentioned above, i have done that. it will not work even if i change headinclude, unless i turn of vbseo meta description replacement.

    if no one can assist, i hope at least someone can tell where is the vbseo code for replacing the meta description so i can change it myself.


    Code:
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=$stylevar[charset]" />
    <meta name="generator" content="vBulletin $vboptions[templateversion]" />
    <if condition="$show['threadinfo']">
    <meta name="keywords" content="<if condition="$threadinfo['taglist']">$threadinfo[taglist], </if>$threadinfo[prefix_plain_html] $threadinfo[title], $vboptions[keywords]" />
    <meta name="description" content="$vboptions[bbtitle] - <if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if>$threadinfo[prefix_plain_html] $threadinfo[title] $foruminfo[title_clean]" />
    <else /><if condition="$show['foruminfo']">
    <meta name="keywords" content="$foruminfo[title_clean], $vboptions[keywords]" />
    <meta name="description" content="$vboptions[bbtitle] - <if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if>$foruminfo[description_clean]" />
    <else />
    <meta name="keywords" content="$vboptions[keywords]" />
    <meta name="description" content="$vboptions[description]" />
    </if></if>
    

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    any help there, vbseo staff? when i asked this question in support ticket, you asked me to ask in forum. now i ask this in forum, can u provide satisfactory answer?

    i have high hopes when i bought vbseo. because of vbseo, i migrated from phpbb to vbbulletin, but instead of getting good results, my traffic has dropped more than 30%. my site is not a small site. i have over 300k visitor/month before the migration.

    my adsense has suffered same fate too, dropped approx 50%. it's now too late to move back to phpbb. can anyone help please.

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    Except for custom vBulletin pages, (if any), I don't think you should change the meta description and keywords. vBSEO in itself does a fine job in optimizing the metadata of regular vBulletin pages.

    I'd suggest you open a thread in this section so we can give you further tips, suggestions:
    vBulletin SEO Discussion - Critique Please at vBSEO.com

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    i need to do that. to give more weight to the thread/forum title on the page title, i have removed the site name from the title tag.

    however, they are still important words to include because it indicates geographical location, and also to give meaning to some ambiguous word in the forum name.

    for example, would "appraisal/valuation" means much to you? unless i tell you it is related to real estate. and for that, it need specific geographic location to be meaningful.

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    You can always add your forumtitle to default vBulletin keywords
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mert Gökçeimam View Post
    You can always add your forumtitle to default vBulletin keywords
    will it change the meta description tag? thks

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