(on second thought, switching back to dev@... :)
Well, it *is* used in Google searching for the blog entry, for SEO. I
thought about just using "Description" (this was my first patch to the
Roller project before becoming a committer) but was afraid that the user
might think of it as a hidden entry/comment field for the blog article
("Mary, see if you can get Bob in marketing to blog something good about
this crappy product we're selling...", etc.), not realizing that that
text ends up going into the HTML header. Further, it's not *exactly*
the meta Description text, you have to code it in the header template to
tie the two together, and this field can go into other META tags related
to search descriptions (I think there's one more--I can't find it right
now though.)
I'm getting the same problem on my 5.1 blog you are adding it to the
header.vm, I don't know why it's not resolving right now, it *was*
working. Also, the Roller blog itself which is on SNAPSHOT is no longer
having its blog articles expanded: http://rollerweblogger.org/project/,
that was working fine just a week or so ago. I'm not sure what the
problem is, I don't think I was working in this area.
Glen
On 12/01/2013 11:30 AM, Gaurav wrote:
Hell Glen,
I have tried this also, but in the browser it did not place value of
this (${entry.searchDescription}) rather than just display same as
plain text. The same problem which I mentioned before also. But when I
use this in day.vm it gave correct value to description through this.
Also, as you said user might add sensitive information, we can rather
can tell user in advanced setting tab that its meta-description. As I
did not see any use of that searchDescription in the theme. I am not
sure if it is used in search of the blog !!!
Thanks
Gaurav
On Sunday 01 December 2013 09:41 PM, Glen Mazza wrote:
(switching to user@...)
Hi Gaurav, you need to alter your header template to include the
search description field ( $entry.searchDescription, as listed in the
Roller template guide.) We do not do that by default, partly out of
concern that someone might put sensitive information in that field
and not realize that it's appearing in the (invisible from the
browser) header of every HTML page. (Perhaps however, we should
modify the templates to do that anyway, I'm not sure how
serious/common a concern that would be.)
Something like this should work for you: <meta name="Description"
content="${entry.searchDescription}">
Glen
On 12/01/2013 10:52 AM, Gaurav wrote:
Hello,
I checked the search description and have entered some text, but it
did not still show up in meta description. Although, if we can get
the value in head.vm than we can add meta description line. I tired
adding $tag.name in head.vm for keywords and also $entry.summary but
did not get the desired value in this file.
Thanks
Gaurav
On Saturday 30 November 2013 04:27 PM, Glen Mazza wrote:
Description (what we call "Search Description") is in 5.1-SNAPSHOT
(not earlier versions), check the "Advanced" section on the blog
entry edit page. Keywords are old-fashioned and as I understand
pretty much ignored today.
Glen
On 11/29/2013 10:30 PM, Gaurav Saini wrote:
Hello,
Did not got reply to this, might be the post has been skiped !!
Thanks
Gaurav
On Nov 25, 2013 4:54 PM, "Gaurav" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I recently checked the template of roller did not have dynamic
meta tags
like description, keywords. It although have title tag which is
dynamic
according to the page we are on. But no keywords and
meta-description.
Although Various other blogging platform also do not use this, as
many
search engines did not use keywords for ranking, as people
misused this tag
in past easily.
But, one thing we can do, which can stand from other blogging
platform is
we can use blog summary first 100 words as the meta description.
And the
same we can use the tags as meta keywords for the header. Want
some ideas,
Is we can do something for this ?
--
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*Viithiisys Technologies*
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