OSClass Custom Meta Tags Plugin

[adkaush]

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for a plugin that can allow custom meta tags (title, description, keywords) on each classified ad. There is one META plugin so far but it has limited functionality.

So if anyone is willing to make a plugin that will allow custom Meta Tags, I wouldn't mind paying for it. If anyone else wishes to fund the development of such a plugin, please reply in this thread and show your interest.

I'm willing to contribute $50 to anyone who can design such a plugin. I know its not much but I hope more people join and contribute financially. If all of us contribute even a little amount, I'm sure we can get the job done because it will benefit all of us in the longer run.

Here's what the plugin should/would do:

* Canonical URLs
* Optimized Post and Page Titles/Descriptions for search engines
* Generates all SEO relevant META tags automatically
* Option to specify meta description and meta keywords tag for categories and tag pages.
* Option to turn off Page title or Post title rewrites for any particular post or page
* Option to turn off Page title or Post title format for any particular post or page
* Helps you avoid duplicate content
* Lets you override any title and set any META description and META keywords, for any post or page
* Support for custom post types
* Add index, noindex, follow or nofollow, noodp, noydir, noarchive, nosnippet meta tags to any post/page.

Check the Wordpress Platinum SEO plugin ( http://wordpress.org/plugins/platinum-seo-pack/ ) and it offers all of the functionality anyone could imagine. Can we get a plugin for osclass that offers all of that functionality?

Thanks for any help the community can provide!

Andy

[Gilden]

Wordpress (specifically the plugin mentioned) is normally intended for content created by someone somehow experienced in SEO.
A Classifieds site is (normally) used by all kinds of users, most of them don't even know what SEO means; how would they fill in the META description and META title? Would you as an admin review every ad and change the meta tags, one by one?

I'm not sure I understood well.

[frosticek]

@adkaush

Hey man, forget on custom meta tags, Gilden has is true.
Instead of that modify meta edit plugin, very easy task, create function that will change meta tags to unique (with function that will filter "banned words"), so i.e. your description for:
This is very sample ads

would be:
sample ads

[adkaush]

Would you as an admin review every ad and change the meta tags, one by one?

Well, if you wish to take the #1 stand on Google and other search engines, you will care to put a lot of manual work. So as an admin, I will review each and every ad and will change the tags to get the best placement on search engines.

In any case, such a plugin can be configured to run on its own too. That Wordpress plugin actually can be configured to automatically write Title, Description and Keywords attributes.

Right now, there is hardly any control over the META tags. For eg.,

My website (http://www.tricityauto.in ), the main website title is .... TricityAuto - Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula Auto Classifieds.

Now whenever a user creates a new item page, the title becomes .. Used XYZ Car For Sale - TricityAuto - Chandigar, Mohalie and Panchkula Auto Classifieds.

This is totally whack! I have no control over the title of pages created thereafter. Secondly, I may wish to write a custom title and use some specific keywords/phrases but I can't because everything is automatically generated. If I can have control over the Title and Description, I can do a lot better with the META tags on item pages.

Not sure if I'm doing a great job at explaining, but hope you get the idea

[adkaush]

@adkaush

Hey man, forget on custom meta tags, Gilden has is true.
Instead of that modify meta edit plugin, very easy task, create function that will change meta tags to unique (with function that will filter "banned words"), so i.e. your description for:
This is very sample ads

would be:
sample ads

Only if I was that good with creating/editing plugins. I have little knowledge of programming

[lexosc]

a seo plugin could have automatically adding for meta description the first sentence of the ad paragraph and the title along with city or category no manual work needed then its just those two that matter maybe the permalink too if its possible

[adkaush]

Yes, that's what I'm saying. We need to have control over the ad pages. Simple reason, users can punch a lot of useless keywords/words in title and description of their ads. They don't know what will rank higher on search engines but since we are the admins, we know better what will rank higher on search engines.

I generally like to do a lot of manual editing because I wish to take the #1 spot on SERPs because I'm serious about my business. Putting things on auto mode can reduce our work but won't fetch us great results. I'm serious about my business, so I'm willing to pay. But can't pay too much so if anyone finds value in such a plugin, please mention how much you wish to contribute. I'm willing to contribute $50 for the development of such a plugin. It will be very very helpful in the longer run!

[lexosc]

it is easy and very simple plugin anyone with some php skills could make it!

[Aficionado]

It is true that Osclass is not very SEO friendly, this is also my findings.

[Gilden]

I think the basic SEO aspects can be obtained with theme modifications. No need for a specific plugin, and specially no need for the admin to edit each and every ad manually! (if you have 100 ads published each day, you wouldn't do anything else than editing ads...)
A simple php if condition should help in titles.

In the header, in the <title> tag, create something like:

Code: [Select]

<?php
if(osc_is_home_page())
     echo "this is the homepage title";
}else if(osc_is_ad_page()){
     echo osc_item_title() . " - This is my ad site";
} else {
     echo osc_meta_title(); // or something like that
}

[frosticek]

@Gilden

This is not right way to go, google and other search engines will take you as duplicate content, you would need unique title and desc for each listing's page.

[Gilden]

@Gilden

This is not right way to go, google and other search engines will take you as duplicate content, you would need unique title and desc for each listing's page.

Yes, of course. This was just a very simple example.
The title shown would need to have some work on it to make it unique across the whole site.

[adkaush]

Gilden is close to what I'm saying. But in order to understand exactly what I'm saying, you have to use Wordpress and also use the Platinum SEO plugin.

There are 3 different entities/elements when it comes to titles ...

WebsiteName
HompageTitle
PostTitle

WebsiteName - XYZ Website
HomepageTitle - Wordpress allows you to enter a title for the homepage manually. Whatever you want it to be.
PostTitle - Again, Wordpress allows you to enter a title for the homepage manually.

Using the Platinum plugin, you can write titles dynamically or manually. The main advantage is that the homepage title remains unique. It doesn't get repeated on different pages. However, the WebsiteName does get repeated, for eg., here's a title of the post ...

This is my first post - XYZWebsite
(Post title - WebsiteName)

Same goes for Category and Tag pages or for the regular Site Pages.

There's a limitation to meta tags in osclass. If my Homepage title is XYZ Website - My website is about ABC, then you check the title of ad pages, it looks like ------- Item Title - XYZ Website - My website is about ABC.

That is where we need to work ... WebsiteName and HomePage Title should be two different things. And Ad page title should be a totally separate entity.

Argh .. not sure if I'm doing a good job at explaining what I'm trying to say .. hope you get the idea.

[Gilden]

That is different from editing each item's title individually.

[adkaush]

Nobody up with contributions? I can guarantee, this plugin will boost up the SEO of your website and definitely, you'll see higher ranks for your pages on SERPs. A little contribution will help folks.