Topic: Seo for Buddypress 1.0 beta

Seo for Buddypress 1.0 beta

Sven Lehnert
Participant

@svenl77

14 years, 7 months ago

This is the first beta of the 1.0 version.

This version is a complete rewrite of the old plugin.

It has a new logic, and much more functionality.

http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/seo-for-buddypress.1.0beta.zip

If you update from an old version, please go to the settings page and click on “Update Database”.

bug report and feature requests go in here please.

I’m thinking about to add the following features into the next versions:

– Nofollow control

– Image-title and alt-tag management

– Letter and word counter for the meta edit pages

– Add meta description in the post edit screen

If you have any suggestions, please contact me.

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Jeff Sayre
Participant

@jeffsayre

14 years, 7 months ago

I deleted your other thread. I’ve accidentally submitted duplicate threads before.

Sven Lehnert
Participant

@svenl77

14 years, 7 months ago

Thanks

Andy Peatling
Keymaster

@apeatling

14 years, 7 months ago

Nice – could you update it so it uses bp_init please? Thanks, all explained at the top of the first post:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/plugin-hall-of-shame-plugin-devs-please-read/

Sven Lehnert
Participant

@svenl77

14 years, 7 months ago

sorry, done
bpisimone
Participant

@bpisimone

14 years, 7 months ago
Good to see someone do stuff in the SEO direction, thanks Sven! One thing, after activating this
```
label {

font:bold 12px Verdana;

}
```
messes with my dashboard making all labels bold in the backend. I don’t know wether I’m doing something wrong or the label should be targeted differently?
Sven Lehnert
Participant

@svenl77

14 years, 7 months ago

@ Bpisimone, Thank you, I have removed the label tag.

bpisimone
Participant

@bpisimone

14 years, 7 months ago

Nice. Btw. there are already a crazy amount of options…

José M. Villar
Participant

@el_terko

14 years, 7 months ago

Ausgezeichnete plugin, Herr Sven !

Anton
Participant

@antonrsaopencirclecoza

14 years, 7 months ago

Installed the update 1.0.2 but it still bolds the dashboard labels.

Sven Lehnert
Participant

@svenl77

14 years, 7 months ago

Hi Anton, I found the bug. Version 1.0.3 beta should fix it.

I missed to close a </strong> tag in the navigation.

Thanks for reporting

Anton
Participant

@antonrsaopencirclecoza

14 years, 7 months ago

Fixed

Anton
Participant

@antonrsaopencirclecoza

14 years, 7 months ago

If you use %%componentname%% as the title for a forum topic, it doesn’t use “Replaced with component name(title of the entry)”

It uses the name of the Group and not the topic title.

Sven Lehnert
Participant

@svenl77

14 years, 7 months ago

You are right, I forgot the forums.

I will add %%componentforumtopic%% for the forum topic title and %%componentforumtopictext%% for the entry.

What else should be in? Any idea?

%%current_component%% for the current component

%%current_action%% for the current action

I will have time for this at Tuesday.

Thanks a lot for testing!

Sven Lehnert
Participant

@svenl77

14 years, 7 months ago

New Version 1.0.4 with special tags for forums is out now.

%%forumtopictitle%% Replaced with current forum topic title

%%forumtopicpostername%% Replaced with current forum topic poster name

%%forumtopiclastpostername%% Replaced with current forum topic last poster name

%%forumtopicstarttime%% Replaced with current forum topic start time

%%forumtopictime%% Replaced with current forum topic time

%%forumtopictext%% Replaced with current forum topic text

I had some problems to get the values of the forum:

The instance of the $forum_template is only initialized in the forum loop in the template. So I had to initialize a second object, that decreased the performance a bit.

Anton
Participant

@antonrsaopencirclecoza

14 years, 7 months ago

Will start testing

paulhastings0
Participant

@paulhastings0

14 years, 7 months ago

We haven’t updated to the latest version but everything so far seems to be going well.

modemlooper
Moderator

@modemlooper

14 years, 7 months ago

When you choose %%forumtopictitle%% Replaced with current forum topic title

It shows the latest forum topic title for ever forum topic. So every Forum topic will have the same browser title. Definitely NOT SEO.

Sven Lehnert
Participant

@svenl77

14 years, 7 months ago

@Modemlooper

you are right! Sorry for this bug. I just tested it with one forum topic.

new version 1.0.5 beta is out now. Should be fixed now.

Thanks alot for testing.

guigoz
Member

@guigoz

14 years, 7 months ago

Hi,

Thanks for this plugin.

It seems to work very good on my site, exept for the homepage. Maybe I missed something but the title of my homepage is “Blog”. I’ve checked WordPress options (site name, and site title, it’s not “Blog”) and I don’t find homepage option in BuddyPress SEO.

Any idea ?

Excuse my english.

Cordialement,

Guillaume Coulon.

modemlooper
Moderator

@modemlooper

14 years, 7 months ago

%%forumtopictitle%% still does not work right.

abcde666
Participant

@erich73

14 years, 7 months ago

Hi Sven,

is there any risk of Google discovering the features of that plugin an therefore ignoring your specific BP-page from their index ?

What is the effect of using this plugin: lets say by using this plugin my page will be in the top2-pages of Google compared to not using this plugin my page will be at page10 at Google ?

Is there anything like this in order to rate the “success” or “capability” of using this plugin ?

Many thanks,

Anonymous User 96400
Inactive

@anonymized-96400

14 years, 7 months ago

SEO really is a fickle thing. To be honest, I wouldn’t bother too much with it with the social aspects of your site… Get the blog that goes with your sn up to scratch, interest other people to join your network and then your member numbers will speak for themselves…

modemlooper
Moderator

@modemlooper

14 years, 7 months ago

One of the main reasons I even want to use this is to stop BP from adding Title | Component | Title. Most RT an share buttons pull this title and it’s not very user friendly. REally has nothing to do with SEO

Sven Lehnert
Participant

@svenl77

14 years, 7 months ago

@guigoz,

It should be under “General Seo / Main Blog / MAIN BLOG START or MAIN BLOG HOME.

It depends on the Page you selected as Home Page.

If your start page is the activity front page so you need to use MAIN BLOG HOME.

I will change the names and label it more clear in the next version.

@Modemlooper

%%forumtopictitle%% still does not work right…. I was to much in a hurry last week.

I will look into the forum tags more proper on Monday.

@Erich73

Hi Erich, you do not need to be afraid of anything.

There is no BLACKSEO in Seo for buddypress.

The only thing, the plugin does, is to offer the possibility to enter Title Description and Keywords for every specific part of your site.

This means the Buddypress pages, the main blog posts, pages and the mu blogs with posts, pages and so on.

There is no way to enter this important informations in a Buddypress environment. Thats the reason of the plugin. It does not deal with some illegal seo tricks.

Just what Google expect you to do.

I wrote a article on my blog, exactly about the need of seo in Buddypress

http://sven-lehnert.de/en/2010/01/02/seo-and-link-marketing-in-buddypress/

@Travel-Junkie

If you have a small blog, and your members are more or less fans of your blog or in a way followers, I think you are right.

But if you have a commercial site it looks different.

For example a social network about a town, with the artist of the town and the events of the town should be seo.

Every Member is a different artist, and goggle should know what kind of artist.

Also the events of the city, I like to find, and so they need seo.

Another example: I’m just developing a site for a political party. Thy want to have a social network to make communal politic.

For this they use Groups and GroupWiki.

Also every politician will have its own profile and blog. Of curse the politician profiles and all the rest need seo.

Otherwise thy would do their politics undercover.

I could give you aplenty of examples for what kind of community seo in buddypress is needed.

@Modemlooper

One of the main reasons I even want to use this is to stop BP from adding Title | Component | Title. Most RT an share buttons pull this title and it’s not very user friendly.

This is 100 % seo!

Anonymous User 96400
Inactive

@anonymized-96400

14 years, 7 months ago

I never said you shouldn’t optimize your site for SEO purposes. I just meant, that on most social sites it’s less important. Obviously there are exceptions. Now, when you add privacy control into the mix, basically making portions of your site private or semi-private, SEO will be even less important. That’s why I said you should mainly concentrate on the public pages (which will be the blog pages for most setups).