how to edit meta tag and keyword?

[schzongx]

Can we edit meta tag and keyword of the forum? it will really help to know how to do that. Please help.


thanks,
anette.

[IchBin]

You edit them in the index.template.php file of your theme.

[schzongx]

this may sound a stupid question but how can I edit it? I mean which line should I edit?

thanks.

[IchBin]

If you look in the file I just mentioned you will find the meta tag lines.

[G6Cad]

Find this line and add in as many words you like, but it wont make much differences as most searchengins have improved a lot, so they will use the bots to crawl every topic and word in them anyway.

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<meta name="keywords" content="PHP, MySQL, bulletin, board, free, open, source, smf, simple, machines, forum" />

[mimmolo]

I was changing my keyword when I find this code:

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<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />', '

Why there is "noindex", I think "all" is better for search engine!

[G6Cad]

Why mess with things thats set like that for a reason.
I have about 50 to 100 bots crawling my forum every day and i havent made a single edit in the meta tags or anywhere else.
So leave it be and let the searchengines do their job ! 

[mimmolo]

curiosity!
However that metatag is showed in none of my pages, so I guess somewhere in the code this meta is being edited