MyBB meta tags code, how to add meta tags for a MyBB SEO forum.
MyBB by itself does not come with options to add in your own meta tags, such as keywords and descriptions, which are basic meta tags for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Adding MyBB meta tags are as easy as adding in a favicon code for your MyBB forum, using meta tags for MyBB are very important for better rankings in search engine results such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing, etc, and will really help you have a MyBB SEO forum. You won’t need a MyBB plugin for this, just a few lines of meta tag code is all you’ll need. Here’s a short tutorial to add in your MyBB meta tags.
MyBB meta tags tutorial
1. Go onto your MyBB forum and into Admin CP > Templates & Style > Templates/Template Sets > [Your Default Template] > Ungrouped Templates > headerinclude.
2. Under this code…
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="{$lang->latest_threads} (RSS 2.0)" href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/syndication.php" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="{$lang->latest_threads} (Atom 1.0)" href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/syndication.php?type=atom1.0" />
Add this for your meta tag description and keywords:
<meta name="description" content="YOUR DESCRIPTION HERE" /> <meta name="keywords" content="YOUR, KEYWORDS, HERE" />
3. Fill in your description and keywords for your forum.
In addition to adding those MyBB meta tags, there’s several more you can choose to add. Although not necessary, they can add extra information for search engines to use when visiting your MyBB forum. Just add these meta tag codes under your current description and keywords meta tags.
Robots meta tag:
<meta name="robots" content="(no)index, (no)follow">
Use this to tell what search engines should crawl and index web pages, for example use “index” for search engines to crawl, and “noindex” for them to not.
Author meta tag:
<meta name="author" content="your name/company">
Used for the site owner’s name or company name.
Those are the main meta tags you can add to MyBB, to change your MyBB meta tags, you’ll have to always edit the headerinclude template. to check your meta tag rankings and to see if they’re working properly for SEO, use this Meta Tag Analyzer tool.
Hi thank you very much I just managed to implement this on to my forum thanks to your post.
Cheers
-Lee
Awesome, you’re welcome. Glad I can help you.
Best regards.
Xstrike – First, thank you for this information. I realize this will add a META description to the MAIN MYBB page. Let me tell you what I am doing with my forum. I am using Page Manager to write search engine optimized blogs to increase PR and bring more visibility to my Form. When you add a Page using this plugin, you get a page /misc.php?page=my-blog-uri
Is there ANY way to add META Descriptions to these pages, and additional messages created?
I’m not sure if it’s possible using Page Manager as I haven’t used it much, but I think it always uses the meta info from the home page. You can try asking the plugin author on the plugin support thread: http://community.mybb.com/thread-63082.html
Nice. But I have one question. When using this, the meta tags will be the same on every page. Will this do SEO any harm?
No, SEO is fine as long as the keywords generally match the thread content.
Ok, thanks. Sorry about the rating, wrong button, and it did not popup witch one where + and – .
So to all. It should be a +
A++ tutorial.. Just put it on my mybb forum..
Can the same method be used for Sub-Forums as well?
permission to try the trick
Helpful information. But I was wondering if there is any way to make the keywords and meta description different for each thread or category individually?
please give me advice .
I’ve maked metatag in my forum (mybb)
but I do not know if it worked.
here is it. http://forum.gardumedia.com/
Are these the meta tags you added?
If it is then yes you did it correctly.
You can see if it worked or not by entering your URL here: http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html
Thanks! This helped me add a description for the forum I run and the necessary meta tags. Hopefully I will get more clicks now.