Having the same meta decription on all pages is not really good for SEO. Let's take a look how to get rid of these duplicate tags:
- Open your template headinclude in the style editor and delete the meta description tag (but copy it into your clipboard first).
HTML Code:<meta name="description" content="<vb:if condition="$pagenumber > 1">{vb:rawphrase page_x, {vb:raw pagenumber}}-</vb:if>{vb:raw foruminfo.description_clean}" />
HTML Code:<meta name="keywords" content="{vb:raw foruminfo.title_clean}, {vb:raw vboptions.keywords}" />
- Now search for {vb:raw headinclude} in all templates. You'll get a list of templates which use the template "headinclude". There are important pages like FORUMHOME, SHOWTHREAD, MEMBERINFO etc. where you might want to add your custom meta description tag.
- Open the template FORUMHOME in the editor and find {vb:raw headinclude}. Paste the copied code from the template "headinclude" under {vb:raw headinclude}. After saving there will be displayed unique description that is set in vBulletin options.
- Now edit another template where you want to display a unique description. Here is an example of my description code in the SHOWTHREAD template:
HTML Code:<meta name="description" content="Thread on my Awesome forum {vb:raw thread.prefix_plain_html} {vb:raw thread.title}" />
- Repeat.
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