META name="keywords" vs. meta http-equiv="keywords"

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[Briggsy]

Hey guys, I noticed some time ago that MODx put keywords in the following syntax
<meta http-equiv="keywords" content="blah, blah1, blah2">

Although it's valid I believe its more standard to use the following syntax
<META name="keywords" content="blah, blah1, blah2">


Is there anyway to change it? I'm trying to avoid the following"

4.1 Validate that http-equiv Keywords tag is NOT used
In an effort to trick public search engines people have tried to stuff pages with keywords repeatedly trick the search engine into giving a page a false high relevance ranking. This type of "Spam" could cause your page NOT to be indexed in a public search engine. A common searchability error is to use the http-equiv="keywords" to perform keyword stuffing, this check validates that this practice is not used.

[rthrash]

Please file a bug report for that, I think it should be changed and agree. Thanks!

[Briggsy]

reported in http://modxcms.com/bugs/task/292?tasks=reported

[yentsun]

Sorry to disturb but... is the case closed or what? I have a 0.9.2 installation and the meta tag is still "http-equiv="keywords".

[OpenGeek]

This is fixed in trunk from SVN, but is not yet available in a stable release.  It is a very simple change and one you can easily make by searching for "http-equiv" in your manager/document.parser.class.inc.php and editing the instance relating to keywords in the mergeDocumentMETATags() function.

[hgw]

Hi, this is more a question on positioning the meta-tags output:

The keywords are put directly after the doctype and before the "title" tag - they should be after "Content-Type" as "no. 4" - second starting row :-)

I couldn't find this in manager/inc/document.parser.class.inc.php ... dont't want to mess around, maybe somebody has a quick tip on that ... Thx!!

[Boby]

To put the metas after the title tag, you have to edit the same function

Here is mine (a bit edited):

Code: (php)

<?php
   function mergeDocumentMETATags($template) {
      if ($this->documentObject['haskeywords'] == 1) {
         //insert keywords
         $keywords = implode (", ", $this->getKeywords());
         $metas = "\t<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"{$keywords}\" />\n";
      }

      if ($this->documentObject['hasmetatags'] == 1) {
         //insert meta tags
         $tags = $this->getMETATags();
         foreach ($tags as $n => $col) {
            $tag = strtolower ($col['tag']);
            $tagvalue = $col['tagvalue'];
            $tagstyle = $col['http_equiv'] ? 'http-equiv' : 'name';
            $metas .= "\t<meta {$tagstyle}=\"{$tag}\" content=\"{$tagvalue}\" />\n";
         }
      }
      $template = preg_replace ("/(<\/title>)/i", "\\1\n".$metas, $template);

      return $template;
   }
?>

Just replace it with this one and it's ready, but remove the <?php ?> tags.

Boby

[bullrat]

Thanks, Boby. I was searching the forums looking for a way to move the keywords tag below the title tag and your edit worked perfectly. Thanks for posting the solution.

[davidm]

Great fix Boby, could you file this in the bugtracker so that this thing makes it in the next release ?

[rthrash]

I'm adding it to trunk now... no need (for once!).

[OpenGeek]

This seems like we're assuming a little too much:

* that the document has a title tag
* that the document has a content-type tag and it appears before the title tag

I know that this is how they should be ordered, but should we always assume this?