SEO Friendly Page Titles Hack
Next up we have Pliggs page titles, this is a really simple little hack that anyone can do I around 2 minutes and it should work on any version of pligg although i have only tested it with v9.8.2.

What this hack does is more commonly know or referred to as reversing page titles or optimal page titles. Here are some examples of this below.

Original Pligg Story Title
Design Float - Joshua Glenn: Taking Things Seriously

SEO’d Pligg Story Title
Joshua Glenn: Taking Things Seriously / Design Float

Original Pligg Search and Tag Title
Design Float / Search Results For: design

SEO’d Pligg Search and Tag Title
Design Search Results / Design Float

Original Pligg Search and Tag Title
Design Float / Tage Cloud

SEO’d Pligg Static Page Title
Tag Cloud / Design Float

As you can see the most important keywords are now located farthest to the left in the page title. Below are the instructions to achieve this….

Open template/yourtemplate/pligg.tpl and FIND



REPLACE WITH

{if $pagename eq "story" || $pagename eq "topusers" || $pagename eq "cloud"}
<title>{$posttitle|substr:3} / {#PLIGG_Visual_Name#}</title>
{elseif $pagename eq "search"}
<title>{$posttitle|substr:22} search results / {#PLIGG_Visual_Name#}</title>
{else}
<title>{$pretitle}{#PLIGG_Visual_Name#}{$posttitle }</title>
{/if}

Completed and your pligg site now has wonderful SEO Optimized Page Titles.

First of all many thanks for these great edits.

I used the first two, friendly url and duplicate content and they both worked fine.

This one though gave me mysql error and I could not open any page on the site without getting it.

Any ideas?

Hi plighackrich,

I have tested this in v9.8.2 of pligg and working fine m8, no idea why you get a MYSQL error as these code edits do not affect the database and use smarty templating engine to acheive the page title reversal.

Try making the edits again dude as the code above is running live on a few sites now with no problems Design Float is one of them, sorry i can't be of more help.

Make sure that the " within the code is correct as phpbb messes them up when posted within a CODE bbcode in the forums that's what will be causing your errors

hmmm... it get the following error when using this hack:



Not sure why... it must conflict with another modification I have made to the code...

Hi Divisive,

The problem lies with the phpbb3 forum and it's CODE bbcode i have quoted the code now and it should work

The phpbb bbcode for CODE made the " within the optimal titles code mess up, should be fine now if you copy to your template

Cheers for the tipoff m8 it was something i didn't pick up on the first time, my bad

Lincoln

ahh... got it...

despite cutting and pasting the code to notepad that "" were wrong... deleted those and inserted the proper ones... cheers

Cool Divisive,

Yeah your right the quoting dont work either, DAMN phpbb3 hehe need to find a solution for that asap. Good to hear you got it working though

Thank you for yet another wonderful template. I swear when I get some extra cash I am going to make a donation. If anyone deserves it it is you.

Thanks again.

I get an error when I do that.




ohh sorry didnt read the last comments, yes i got it, instead of copying and pasting directly into the Templates editor, use Notepad, and replace the “ ” with " "

Read 5 posts up from here m8 as i had already explained this error

I have removed the code from php code system, try copying it again now

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