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Solved K 3.0 SEO Meta Description Generators

Shimei
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10 years 11 months ago #1 by Shimei

K 3.0 SEO Meta Description Generators was created by Shimei

In K 2.xx there was an issue with how Kunena generated Meta descriptions, or at least there was an issue how Google listed Kunena topics in SERPs.

In 2.0 these changes were made to the /administrator/components/com_kunena/libraries/view.php

Now, that everything is different I am asking for help in finding the code that lists the generation of meta descriptions. The changes in code in 2.0.xx were:

Code:

From:
$this->document->setMetadata ( 'description', $this->document->get ( 'description' ) . '. ' . $description );

To:

Code:

$this->document->setMetadata ( 'description',  $description );

And this screenshot is the problem I am seeing in Google, the global meta descriptions are first and by time the listing is shown the topic descriptions are not visible, after the above changes made in 2.0 the problem went away, and the descriptions were generated correctly. Your help would be appreciated in finding the right files and making the right changes!

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Matias
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10 years 11 months ago #2 by Matias

Replied by Matias on topic K 3.0 SEO Meta Description Generators

File is the same, but it has just moved to JROOT/libraries/kunena

Point taken on descriptions. I'll probably going to take a look on those now that we're finalizing the new template. If I forget to do that -- will you remind me later?

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10 years 11 months ago - 10 years 11 months ago #3 by ChaosHead

Replied by ChaosHead on topic K 3.0 SEO Meta Description Generators

And again all threads with nofollow attribute?

I call this anti-SEO.

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Shimei
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10 years 9 months ago #4 by Shimei

Replied by Shimei on topic K 3.0 SEO Meta Description Generators

Matias wrote: File is the same, but it has just moved to JROOT/libraries/kunena

Point taken on descriptions. I'll probably going to take a look on those now that we're finalizing the new template. If I forget to do that -- will you remind me later?

Hi Matias,

Were these changes implemented in Kunena 3.0? Doesn't appear to be so. Also, I'd like to remove the Topic: from each of the titles being listed in SERPs. Can anyone help me?

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10 years 9 months ago - 10 years 9 months ago #5 by xillibit

Replied by xillibit on topic K 3.0 SEO Meta Description Generators

ChaosHead wrote: And again all threads with nofollow attribute?

I call this anti-SEO.

Hello,

Yes i know, i wanted to remove all this nofollow, if you have some arguments you can add them there : github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/pull/1447

I have just found this site www.siteliner.com which can check if your content is duplicate, i'am not able to run this test on kunena.org

Shimei wrote:
Matias wrote: File is the same, but it has just moved to JROOT/libraries/kunena

Point taken on descriptions. I'll probably going to take a look on those now that we're finalizing the new template. If I forget to do that -- will you remind me later?

Hi Matias,

Were these changes implemented in Kunena 3.0? Doesn't appear to be so. Also, I'd like to remove the Topic: from each of the titles being listed in SERPs. Can anyone help me?

Hello,

I will do it now else it will be forgotten, thanks for remind

P.S. : done look here github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/pull/1834

I don't provide support by PM, because this can be useful for someone else.

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10 years 9 months ago #6 by 810

Replied by 810 on topic K 3.0 SEO Meta Description Generators

www.kunena.org

Site Summary

Report Details

Site Totals

Page Averages

Status:
Complete

Date:
Jul 7, 2013

Pages checked:
500

Duplicate content:
54%

Internal broken links:
1203 (23 pages)

Redirections
30

Size:
25 Kb

Words:
591

Internal links:
33.2

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Shimei
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10 years 9 months ago #7 by Shimei

Replied by Shimei on topic K 3.0 SEO Meta Description Generators

Ouch - to the duplicate content. I dunno if anyone else has experienced major declines in traffic since Google implemented Panda updates about a month ago, but I have taken quite the hit. I take it that duplicate content is just one of the things we should attempt to prevent.

www.religiousverse.com
Site Summary
Report Details Site Totals Page Averages
Status: Complete
Date: Jul 10, 2013
Pages checked: 500

Duplicate content: 56%
Internal broken links: 0
Redirections 41

Size: 35 Kb
Words: 890
Internal links: 44.0

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10 years 8 months ago #8 by sozzled

Replied by sozzled on topic K 3.0 SEO Meta Description Generators

Done in K 3.0.2

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10 years 8 months ago #9 by Kubik-Rubik

Replied by Kubik-Rubik on topic K 3.0 SEO Meta Description Generators

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

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10 years 8 months ago #10 by Jiminimonka

Replied by Jiminimonka on topic K 3.0 SEO Meta Description Generators

Please put this on GitHUb Kubik-Rubik, so its possible for it to be added in future.

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