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    Keyword duplication

    I have the normal keywords in the vBulletin Options.

    eg:

    keyword1 keyword2 keyword3 keyword4 keyword5 keyword6

    However when you view source on the forums home, its perfect. When you view source on a forum thread, it is duplicated, if some of the words in the title of the thread are the same.

    eg:

    keyword7 keyword8 keyword1 keyword1 keyword2 keyword3 keyword4 keyword5 keyword6

    The unbolded keywords, are the keywords, of the thread title, the bolded ones are the forum default keywords.

    Surely, all I would need are the unbolded ones?

    Any ideas?

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    I just checked here, and yours does the same.

    Code:
    <meta name="keywords" content="Keyword,duplication, Keyword duplication, SEO, vbulletin search engine optimization, search engine optimisation, search engine friendly forums, vbulletin seo"
    Code:
    <meta name="keywords" content="SEO, vbulletin search engine optimization, search engine optimisation, search engine friendly forums, vbulletin seo" />

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    To solve this you could do the following. Open up your headinclude template and find;

    HTML Code:
    <meta name="keywords" content="<if condition="$threadinfo['taglist']">$threadinfo[taglist], </if>$threadinfo[prefix_plain_html] $threadinfo[title], $vboptions[keywords]" />
    Replace with:

    HTML Code:
    <meta name="keywords" content="<if condition="$threadinfo['taglist']">$threadinfo[taglist], </if>$threadinfo[prefix_plain_html] $threadinfo[title]" />
    also find:

    HTML Code:
    <meta name="keywords" content="$foruminfo[title_clean], $vboptions[keywords]" />
    and replace with:

    HTML Code:
    <meta name="keywords" content="$foruminfo[title_clean]" />
    That should remove the vboptions keywords from your forumdisplay and showthread pages.
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    Thanks Michael,

    Would it be a good idea to do this or leave it as it is?

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    Well, I guess it all depends, I have not tested this with/without this.
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    I have just tried this:

    Using:

    Meta Tag Analyzer

    And this URL

    http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/sky-news-announcements/25255-message-sky-broadband-team-2.html

    Before the change

    Keywords meta tag contains too many keywords.
    This tag contains 29 keywords. This is too many for what we would consider a 'robot friendly' keywords tag. The maximum number of keywords we recommend for this tag is 20.
    Keywords meta tag relevancy to page content is very good.
    The keywords meta tag relevancy to page content is 90%.
    After the change

    Keywords meta tag contains no errors.
    This tag contains 11 keywords and 110 characters.
    Keywords meta tag relevancy to page content is excellent.
    The keywords meta tag relevancy to page content is 100%.

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    Well with that tool, it seems to be better
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    Yes, I understand that, but my point is, surely vBSEO should do this as standard for increased SEO effectiveness.

    For two years, I have had this like the first post. Even vBSEO has this on their forums. Maybe a good idea to include this in the setup instructions?

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    Code:
    <meta name="keywords" content="$foruminfo[title_clean]" />
    This now presents another problem, you have the keywords used from the thread title, then the thread title listed as well.

    Effectively duplicating the keywords

    ie:

    Code:
    <meta name="keywords" this,is,a,duplicate,of,keywords this is a duplicate of keywords

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    *cough*

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