meta description problem

Hi folks, hope you can help.

In all of my forums first posts (for guests) I have "Join the community! Register your FREE account to remove these ads!" under my adsense. This is hard coded into the template, but for some reason it appears in the meta description on all of my threads.

Any ideas how to remove this?

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do you use a RR in your meta tag?

and if you do, how many characters is it including?

I'm not using RR, I am using dynamic meta description with 200 chars of the first post (but did try using RR and is exactly the same).

W.>

does the support team read this forum?

Originally Posted by woostar

does the support team read this forum?

Ofcourse they do, if you need quicker support, I suggest opening a support ticket.
I'm on my phone, or I'd take a look at your source and see if anything sticks out.
Vbseo will use the first part or the post or forum description to pull your meta tag.

LOL thought I edited my post above to say that I found the support button. Just wanted to catch things before search engines spider too much.

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Am I allowed to alter the code and add

PHP Code:

$desc_content = str_replace('Join the community! Register your FREE account to remove these ads! ', '', $desc_content); 


to functions_vbseo.php?

Your meta description is working just like it should on that page

Code:

<meta name="description" content="she went up to hosp earlier, and shes 4cm dialated! midwife has said she can stretch her more, shes just had a sweep and is being" />

it is now, because I made that little mod (but I know some licences don't like you altering the code - as it used to be encoded I guess they may have objected).

Am I allowed to alter the code and add

This is allowed.

sorted then, thanks

hmm, I still don't see why you would have to edit the code ?

oh well, glad you got it working

or if you do not want to mod the vbseo codes you can use the Replacement Variables system builtin vbulletin , very excellent feature to replace any occurences that you know to something other you need, Im using this to change all gif images for different styles without any code/template modification for example.

Reading though the code I figure that VBSEO collects data from an array using
<!-- message -->
<div id="post_message_....

</div>
<!-- / message -->

to collect data.


Because I've manually inserted adsense between those tags
E.G:

PHP Code:

<!-- message -->
 
<!-- first post insert -->
<if condition="(($post[postcount] % $vboptions[maxposts] == 1)) and ($show['guest'])">
<span class="smallfont" style="margin: 0 0 0 10px; float: right; width: 365px; height: 325px; text-align: center;">
 
 
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
//Inside Post #1 - 336x280 (guest)
google_ad_slot = "xxxxxxxxxx";
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
<br /><br />
<strong>Join the community! <a href="register.php">Register</a> your FREE account<br />to remove these ads!</strong>
</span>
</if>
<!-- /first post insert -->
 
 
    <div id="post_message_$post[postid]">$post[message]</div>
 
 
<!-- / message --> 


the first thing it picks up is "Register your FREE account to remove these ads!" before the post data... hence putting in the meta description.

Happened even when I used the RR replacement variables.

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