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I have been searching the webmaster world for a solution to a problem. I am having a membership site set up with g***r one. I gave them the files in html and they are now converting to php. At the g***r site, there is a seo helper that produced the following code for me.
I gave them the code and they said :
I cannot put this code into *********.com, because we have implemented the code in php and we don't use <head> in php,
Now I am a total newbie at this, but from what I've read in posts at this site, you can use meta tags, description etc. and a lot of people do use title tags, meta descriptions and keywords...
So how do I present this to the guys so that they will use it or think it is do-able in php?
Here is the code I gave them...
Please copy and paste the following inside the <head> and the </head>
Afterwards your site will be fully compliant with all standards and indexable by all spiders.
<meta name="keywords" CONTENT="stress, stress to rest, relax, feel better, stress management, relaxation, therapy, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, free mp3, ">
<meta name="description" CONTENT="http://www.Put***********est.com Get a Free mp3 stress reduction session and get lots of cool tools to help you reduce and blast away your stress now. Put stress to rest for good.">
<meta name="author" CONTENT="Mel Hirsch">
<meta name="copyright" CONTENT="Put********est.com c 2008">
<meta name="rating" CONTENT="General">
<meta name="revisit-after" CONTENT="31">
<meta name="robots" CONTENT="ALL">
<meta name="distribution" CONTENT="Global">
<meta http-equiv="content-language" CONTENT="en">
<meta http-equiv="reply-to" CONTENT="support@put**********est.com">
<meta http-equiv="pragma" CONTENT="cache">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.example.com/safe/ratings.htm" l r (s 0));>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="The ******** Meta Generator">
Thanks for any and all help. When they say no, they can't do it, it makes me look for a solution...I know it can be done, I just don't know how and your posts say it can be done....
Thanks for your help.
[edited by: dreamcatcher at 6:18 pm (utc) on May 24, 2008]
[edited by: tedster at 12:01 am (utc) on May 25, 2008]
[edit reason] use example.com. Thanks. [/edit]
<?php
echo '<meta name="blah" content="blah blah">';
echo '<meta name="blah" content="blah blah">';
echo '<meta name="blah" content="blah blah">';
?>
Afterwards your site will be fully compliant with all standards and indexable by all spiders
Incidentally, the vast majority of the meta elements in the first post serve no useful purpose whatsoever. Personally, the only ones I would include are the Content-Type (if it isn't set by the server already) and the description . Maybe the author and keywords at a push. The rest are just consuming bandwidth unnecessarily.
None of the elements are necessary for spiderability, or to comply with standards.
[edited by: tedster at 12:02 am (utc) on May 25, 2008]
can you include actual php code?
can you include a separate file within the page?
when they say they have "converted your html to php", and "can no longer add any more html" that sounds to me like they are trying to fob you off.
they've probably split up the different segments into a template - but it is still likely to be the exact same code underneath. maybe they have loaded it into a database or something.
but all they've got to do is cut and paste your stuff into the template and upload it again. it would literally take thirty seconds.
and they said :
I cannot put this code into *********.com, because we have implemented the code in php and we don't use <head> in php
Neither do I -- But I use <head> in HTML ;)
You can only implement a <head> section where there is HTML output -- and it's actually mandatory in HTML documents to have a <head> section (at least if you want your HTML documents to be valid.)
Maybe your request was misunderstood by them? And by the way... Who are 'they'? I didn't quite get that.
I guess the second site is still in html... the first one is not...
I also pull the title and use that as the description tag.
Nothing could be easier to create.
I guess the second site is still in html... the first one is not...
Let's clarify things here:
1) (X)HTML is the output to view in a browser -- this is what the user see when he or she visits a website (client side).
2) PHP is a (server side) technology -- the user don't actually see what's happening on the server... PHP is executed on the server ;) Users will only see the output in a browser, which is the (X)HTML, not the PHP.
Therefore both sites 'is in HTML'.
The person who wrote the reply maybe don't understand what you're request is about... or else he or she don't understand the difference between (X)HTML and PHP.
[edited by: OutdoorMan at 11:31 pm (utc) on May 24, 2008]
Could you show me, tell me, or direct me to where I can get it done and what to tell them...like rentacoder or something....
Thanks...
I use php to pull the first 250 charactors from the post and use it as the keywords metatag
I also pull the title and use that as the description tag.
Nothing could be easier to create.
And outdoor man...thanks for your clarification...it's still greek to me, but less greek than a few hours ago...
Thanks to all for your help, suggestions and education...
Mel
netchicken1
In your answer, is that something anyone can do and is it something that you can just put in a code to tell it to pull the title for description and the 250 for keyword meta?
Anyone could do it like this (simplyfied example):
<?php// Open database here...
// SQL
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM database WHERE id = '" . $id . "' LIMIT 1") or die (mysql_error());while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
$title = $row['title']; // get title from database
$description = $row['description']; // get description from database
$keywords = substr($row['keywords'], 0, 250); // get keywords (250 characters) from database
}// Close database here...
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title><?php echo $title?></title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en">
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo $description?>">
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo $keywords?>">
</head>
<body><!-- HTML content goes here... -->
</body>
</html>
It can be done, pretty much, as simple as shown above :)
[edited by: OutdoorMan at 11:28 am (utc) on May 25, 2008]
you talk about 'paid membership site' ... well are those pages going to be viewable if you are not a paid member?
because if the answer is 'no' then those pages are not going to be in an search engine index anyway - how is a spider going to view the pages without being a member?
of course, i know there are ways to get members only pages indexed by search engines - however i'd first ask if this is being done, because if it isn't then all this talk about HEAD is largely a waste of time as you are doing it for SEO reasons and your pages are not going to be indexed anyway.
I gave them html and they've now converted it to php....
Why? Do they not know you can use html outside of the <?php ?> brackets? From what I've read so far they don't seem to know what they're doing.
I agree that they don't appear to know what they are talking about.
Their competence is in question here.
