Solved K 3.0 SEO Meta Description Generators

Kubik-Rubik wrote: Hi!

I had the same problem and since I use Kunena on a website with two languages, the result was even worse.

My suggestion for the description function is

- limit number of chars to 140 (or more if you don't use the global description)
- add the language tag
- add global description (optional)

Code:

public function setDescription($description) { if(!$this->state->get('embedded')) { if(mb_strlen($description) > 140) { $description = mb_substr($description, 0, 140).'...'; } $lang = JFactory::getLanguage(); $meta_description = $description.' - '.$lang->getName().' - '.$this->document->get('description'); $this->document->setMetadata('description', $meta_description); } }

After I have changed the code, everything is fine in Google's Webmaster Tools (HTML suggestion - duplicate description) and the output in Google is better.

Regards

Which file and where were these changes made in?

*Edit: found it, nevermind.

ChaosHead wrote: And again all threads with nofollow attribute?

I call this anti-SEO.

I found a way to resolve this without having to hack the Kunena files each time Kunena updates. I posted what I had done with a component here: Kunena 3 - Replace all "nofollow" attributes

This is an old article showing how to fix the meta description issue:
ayudajoomla.com/joomla/joomla-seo/655-me...l-seo-en-kunena.html

The new changes to the meta description generator only applies for posts, not for the replies, and all the replies are published using the same meta description as the original post.

any idea?

Thanks in advance,

Shimei wrote:

ChaosHead wrote: And again all threads with nofollow attribute?

I call this anti-SEO.

I found a way to resolve this without having to hack the Kunena files each time Kunena updates. I posted what I had done with a component here: Kunena 3 - Replace all "nofollow" attributes

Thank you. But while I see that the years pass, but Kunena team can not fix these minor problems.

Using nofollow on links enables Googlebot to crawl other pages you'd prefer to see in Google's index.

Matt Cutts. support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en

Already waiting, as Sozzled asks my configuration report and write a post in which will be a lot of words, but it will not solve the problem.

There's just not enough free time to fix everything, so I need to prioritize my tasks.

The pull request is still in there and in consideration. I've also removed a few nofollows (which BTW, according to Google do not prevent it from visiting the URLs).

The issue on removing nofollows is that we have many different variations of the same URLs and only one of those is canonical -- eg. should be follow. If we just remove nofollow, large forums will not get (again) updated by Google and load on the site increases a lot.