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I have had to give up weblog because of trackback spam and am moving over to the wordpress module (www.xoopsforge.com) however this does not have thje ability to display articles as webpages and the wordpress hacks that do this do not work on the wordpress module.
I just finished switching over to WordPress for the article section in my womens magazine and just tinkered with the code in the templates a little bit to adjust the layout as I wanted it. I also code my own custom navigation blocks. Take a peek if you like . . .
the article indexa specific category pagea specific articleIt is different than the article module I was using before and I did have to edit an email form to use as an article submission page because I can't get the section where the -user creates a post for me to authorize- to work correctly yet but the SEO is TOP NOTCH. Great trade off I think!
I also wanted to point out a couple of little SEO tidbits that I had read a few years ago while learning html.
1. Google doesn't like anymore than about five words in the <title> tags.
2. Meta tags in a certain order such as . . .
<title><{$xoops_pagetitle}></title>
<meta name="keywords" content="<{$xoops_pagetitle}>, <{$xoops_meta_keywords}>" />
<meta name="description" content="<{$xoops_pagetitle}>, <{$xoops_meta_description}>" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=<{$xoops_charset}>" />
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="<{$xoops_langcode}>" />
<meta name="robots" content="<{$xoops_meta_robots}>" />
<meta name="rating" content="<{$xoops_meta_rating}>" />
<meta name="author" content="<{$xoops_meta_author}>" />
<meta name="copyright" content="<{$xoops_meta_copyright}>" />
3. Keep the # of keywords down to about eight or nine.
I don't know all around how much of a difference this stuff makes but when I built my first couple of site which almost strictly consisted of html, I used these rules of thumb and my sites usually did very well in the search engines. As a matter of fact they have slipped waaaay down since switching to XOOPS but I wanted dynamic and safe so you do what you have to. I am since learning more about XOOPS combined with good SEO practices which I am hoping to see positive returns on soon. I still need to link from one page to another using key word in my article content and such.