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  • Registered: Mar 16, 2002
  • Last visit: Feb 28, 2004
  • Posts: 11

  Posted: Sep 09, 2003 - 05:17 AM

  I am a Norwegian SEO, and run postnuke on my site. And I love it. However, operating Postnuke in my business is not easy...
  
  
  First of all I had to start hacking my content. The slogan is a silly feature - call it META DESCRIPTION, that's what it is - and is also limited by 255 chars. Now that's annoying.
  
  Moreover my sitename is being repeated in every article, and this clearly screws up rankings, rendering URL hacking useless. Not very informative for a user either.
  
  Then it's the URL's. The URL's are not SE friendly at all, but thanks to the community (and Sascha :D - http://news.postnuke.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1804&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 ) the job is fairly simple. Hacking most of it anyway. It is being rumored that this will be better in 0.8, which is good - and not to mention a HUGE feature on a content management system.
  
  Today I tried using the "Dynamic META KEYWORDS". And that's about the most useless feature I've ever seen in Postnuke. The META KEYWORDS are supposed to describe your main content, in keywords. The dynamic feature will simply reproduce your entire article, and add it to the keywords tag. I can assure you, that in most cases, this is NOT SE friendly.
  
  I think a new forum should be added to this site. A forum about SEO and Postnuke. Why? Because SEO is about creating good content from a user point of view and good solutions from a technical point of view. Sure - I can hack most of my needs by myself, and then share it with others, but most of this really needs to be discussed with developers of core features.
  
  Personally I have quite a few ideas, and I believe I am not alone out there...
  
  
  Regards
  
  Øyvind Frøland

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• **unknown user**
  
  

  • Rank: Registered User
  • Registered: Mar 16, 2002
  • Last visit: Oct 21, 2009
  • Posts: 7

  Posted: Sep 22, 2003 - 10:29 PM

  It's good to read post like this here!
  
  Postnuke is really needing an improvement regarding this!
  
  The 3rd party friendly URL's are a good solution and were efective for me. But the questions you raised are correct.
  
  There should be a separate description form, and this description, actually should even change accordingly to the module, or even better, to the news (creating a description field on submission form for example).
  
  Title should be related with the module (for example, on my site, title for links page should be "Best Love Poems Network Web Links" and not "Best Love Poems Network :: Love Poems for Poetry Lovers!" as this is useless... :(
  
  Is there anyone working on this for the .8 version? It's useless to create good content if then nobody finds it... :(
  
  I wouldn't mind to be part of a discussion topic about this, as I can help a lot in terms of concepts (but don't know anything about PHP programming).
  
  Regards,
  
  Miguel

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• larsneo
  
  

  • Rank: Software Foundation
  • Registered: Dec 31, 1969
  • Last visit: Oct 21, 2009
  • Posts: 3814

  Posted: Sep 22, 2003 - 11:27 PM

  check joerg's excellent title hack available at http://sf.net/projects/lottasophie
  
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  regards from germany
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