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post Nov 10 2003, 02:48 PM
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I'm new to Php, how do I add meta tags to my code using php?
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<meta name="description" CONTENT="">

<meta name="keywords" CONTENT=" ">
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post Nov 10 2003, 03:27 PM
James
Here is the PHP for the variables....
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<?php

$tpTitle="Helping you to improve your web site";

$pgHeading="Site-Report.com - Helping you to improve your web site";

$pgDesc="Helping you to improve your web site";

$pgKeywords="site-report";

?>



... and here is the HTML for the head section...
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<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></meta>

<title><?php echo $tpTitle ?></title>

<meta name="description" content="<?php echo $pgDesc ?>"></meta>

<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo $pgKeywords ?>"></meta>

</head>



Hope that helps,
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post Nov 10 2003, 04:10 PM
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many thanks James
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post Nov 10 2003, 04:13 PM
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Here to help! :-)
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post Nov 10 2003, 04:26 PM
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I tried it and keep getting below code:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in

page_header.php on line 13

Any Idea?
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post Nov 10 2003, 04:29 PM
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Can you post the code as you have it? The code I used works fine! wink.gif
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post Nov 10 2003, 04:31 PM
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$pgHeading="onlinemortgage101.com - Helping you to improve your web site";
$pgDesc="Helping millions Refinance home and get best mortgage loan rate quotes.";
$pgKeywords="Refinance Home, Mortgage Loan, Mortgage lead, Internet Mortgage Lead Talk";


<meta name="description" content="<?php echo $pgDesc ?>"></meta>
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo $pgKeywords ?>"></meta>
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post Nov 10 2003, 04:40 PM
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Missing bit shown in BOLD
<?php
$pgHeading="onlinemortgage101.com - Helping you to improve your web site";
$pgDesc="Helping millions Refinance home and get best mortgage loan rate quotes.";
$pgKeywords="Refinance Home, Mortgage Loan, Mortgage lead, Internet Mortgage Lead Talk";
?>

<meta name="description" content="<?php echo $pgDesc ?>"></meta>
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo $pgKeywords ?>"></meta>
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post Nov 12 2003, 06:37 AM
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thanks James..

get it
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post Nov 13 2003, 12:57 AM
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BTW, don't have </meta> is my advice. Meta tags are unterminating, so <meta .... /> is better, or just >, not ></meta>.
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post Jan 16 2004, 07:21 PM
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I tried this and I had no errors, but the Meta Tag analyser on scrub the web couldn't find my tags. sad.gif
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post Jan 17 2004, 02:37 AM
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Hi Cozone,

Post the generated HTML and we'll have a look for you.

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post Jan 26 2004, 01:27 AM
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wouldnt it be easier and more bandwidth economical just to have the meta tags in html on the page?

ie:

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echo \"<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Content-Type\" CONTENT=\"text/html; charset=\"._CHARSET.\"\">n\";
echo \"<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"EXPIRES\" CONTENT=\"0\">n\";
echo \"<META NAME=\"RESOURCE-TYPE\" CONTENT=\"DOCUMENT\">n\";
echo \"<META NAME=\"DISTRIBUTION\" CONTENT=\"GLOBAL\">n\";
echo \"<META NAME=\"AUTHOR\" CONTENT=\"$sitename\">n\";
echo \"<META NAME=\"COPYRIGHT\" CONTENT=\"Copyright © 2003 by $sitename\">n\";
echo \"<META NAME=\"KEYWORDS\" CONTENT=\" web design, webdesign, development, content management system, solution, ecommerce, commerce, ebusiness\">n\";
echo \"<META NAME=\"DESCRIPTION\" CONTENT=\"$slogan\">n\";
echo \"<META NAME=\"ROBOTS\" CONTENT=\"INDEX, FOLLOW\">n\";
echo \"<META NAME=\"REVISIT-AFTER\" CONTENT=\"1 DAYS\">n\";
echo \"<META NAME=\"RATING\" CONTENT=\"GENERAL\">n\";
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post Jan 26 2004, 04:11 AM
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Not that you need all those META tags........
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post Jan 26 2004, 10:34 AM
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wouldnt it be easier and more bandwidth economical just to have the meta tags in html on the page?

Only if you had a unique page to place those tags in.

However, we are dynamically generating pages with PHP, so how would you have a unique meta description of each generated page? If you put a non-dynamic code into a dynamic template, it will be the same for all pages. That's fine for things that are supposed to be alike on all pages, but not for some meta tags.

Having the same description for each page is a beginners mistake. Beginners often think that the Meta description is to describe the website. It isn't. It is to describe each unique document.

Every page should have a unique and specific TITLE and a unique and specific DESCRIPTION.

There are just three Meta tags that are really worthwhile to include at all in any page:
Content type/charset
Description
Keywords

The rest are more harm than good.
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post Jan 26 2004, 05:07 PM
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i stuctured one of my sites like this:

this is part of the header file that is included on all pages:

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    echo \"<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\">n\";
    echo \"<html>n\";
    echo \"<head>n\";
    echo \"<title>$sitename - $page_name - $pagetitle</title>n\";

    include(\"includes/meta-$page_name.php\");


this is part of the actuall content pages:

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$page_name = basename(dirname(__FILE__));
$pagetitle = \"- Content Page\";
$sitename = \"Booyaa.com\";

include(\"header.php\");


this gives each page its own unique meta include, looking at i dont know if one method is faster than the other, same amount of text either way, right?
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post Jan 27 2004, 01:59 AM
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Black_Knight already covered what I wanted to say. In today;s world, you need to optimize your website pages uniquely with different set of keywords related to your business so that you can have more and more top rankings and therefore traffic and sales.
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post Jan 27 2004, 05:00 PM
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hey nakulgoyal,

i dont know if its creativity, but

http://www.cwsteam.com/

redifining

is the mispelling of:

redefining
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post Jan 27 2004, 05:04 PM
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I know. :-)
It's been ages since I updated this wbesite. No time for my own websites. :-(
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post Jan 27 2004, 05:31 PM
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thats good that you have no time, means you are making $$

how old are you, is that a business or are you an individual consultant?
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