Hey John,

I know this is an easy one so please refresh my memory.

Is there any difference in the search and replace for text that is on the page versus a search and replace for Title, Description, and Keywords.

For example: I want to search the title, description and keywords for all pages on my site for the words: Patrick Coleman and replace them with the words: John Smith.

What would the search and replace look like to achieve this?

Would it be a simple as adding something like this to portal rules:

< searchFor >Patrick Coleman< /searchFor >< replaceWith >John Smith< /replaceWith >

I know this would replace Patrick Coleman for all on page text but will it also change the Title, Description, and Keywords?

Thanks,

Pat

Yes, the complete page HTML("view page source") is available to PageBlaster for replacements.

If you want to target only a specific place in the page and not others then you'll need a regex pattern to capture it.

Hey John,
Thanks for confirming that for me. I ran into one snag that I am hoping you have a solution for.

In my page title I used | as a separator between terms and one of the terms is the state abbreviation, e.g. MA for Massachusetts. Of course when I use a search and replace it replaces all occurrences of ma in all words throughout the site. So, I tried using "| MA" in the search for and WOW it returned a page full of garbage.

So, I am hoping that you may have a solution for this. I have looked to find a regex that will search for capitals only but haven't found anything.

I simply want to find all occurences of MA with a space before and after (if this helps) and replace it with two other letters (another state abbreviation).

Thanks,
Pat

Hey John,
I figured it out! After 3 years of using PB it is about time for me to start studying a bit of regex - so I spent a couple hours looking through it and now when I look at your regex I actually understand what it means...very cool!

search [^a-z](MA) and replace with the new state abbreviation worked like a charm!

Have an outstanding weekend.
Pat