css skins altered my meta tags

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NICK mARTIN
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01/28/2004 8:53 AM
I see now that css skins changed how my meta tags are read by search engines? when you did a keyword search for my site it was 1st in the list on MSN, yahoo and google. Now its buried on the second and third page. Please guys can you go back to the original way DNN did meta tags?

John Mitchell
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01/28/2004 6:19 PM
The only thing I know of that is different is that I added the portal's description to the title. I did this to help with search engines, because the title of the site is pretty important in your ranking and just having the name of your portal doesn't do as good. Your ranking on the search engines can be influenced by many factors. Do you have a specific example of how the Meta tags have changed?

NICK mARTIN
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02/01/2004 2:23 PM
I beg to differ. Both MSN and Google got the description everytime and held my site in the top ranks for more than a year. Now my site is 4 pages deep doing a keyword search that always pulled it up top of the list before installing the skins. I can tell what is happening now. It's not reading the tags properly becuase in the description of the site I see HTML from my homepage not the actuall tags. Is is possible to change back to how DNN originally showed tags or am I stuck?

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02/02/2004 2:15 PM
The only change to the Meta Tags was the Title which adds the description. You can take that out by changing that line of code in DesktopDefault.vb Which site are you talking about? I might be able to better determine what the problem might be by looking at the HTML source output.

salar golestanian
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02/02/2004 2:19 PM
I just like to point out that there is indeed an issue with the metatags. I thought it is something I had done until I noticed today that all css sites have the same content for :- < title id="Title">< /title> < meta name="DESCRIPTION" content=""> Are both the same. Most search engines like the title to be 80 characters or less and since description is normally around 200 you will have the search engines lowering your ranking as the result of big title. I have not had much time to fix this bug but I feel the solution is easy in the css source code. Regards Salar

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02/02/2004 2:26 PM
I guess that could be an issue if it is a really long description. The reason I did it this way was because some customers wanted a way to put more information in the title tag without actually adding it to the title, so it wouldn't show up in the Terms of Use and Privacy Statement. I'll look into a better solution.

salar golestanian
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02/03/2004 7:31 AM
Shaun has just put Richards Meta Tag solution in V2. I suppose if CSS 2.5 is going to run on V2 then the problem is solved. Salar

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NICK mARTIN
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John Mitchell
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02/15/2004 10:31 PM
ZOPPS, In DesktopDefault.vb you can remove the description from the Title tag and re-compile. ' set page title and description <BR> If Not Me.Page.FindControl("Title") Is Nothing Then <BR> Dim strTitle As String = _portalSettings.PortalName ' <b> comment this or remove it </b>& " " & _portalSettings.Description <BR> Dim tab As DotNetNuke.TabStripDetails <BR> For Each tab In _portalSettings.BreadCrumbs <BR> strTitle += " > " & tab.TabName <BR> Next <BR> CType(Me.Page.FindControl("Title"), HtmlGenericControl).InnerText = strTitle <BR> End If

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