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    Meta Description Display Issue

    For some reason all pages indexed are showing "keywords" instead of grabbing the meta description data on the php pages.

    I looked in the zoom_pagedata.zdat file and this is an example of an entry.
    http://www.ahgsa.com.au/dealerships.php|Dealer Locations|keywords||

    Where as on that page the meta description is
    <meta name="description" content="AHG has over 100 vehicle dealerships selling vehicles form more than 28 manufacturers throughout Australia and New Zealand. To find your nearest AHG dealership, please use our dealership locater tool " />

    The meta information is being pulled from a mysql database but is populated before the page is rendered so there shouldn't be any issue.

    Help please as I am stumped by this.

    Regards
    Paul
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  • #2
    Meta tags are only valid if they are within the <head> ... </head> section of the page. This is according to HTML standards. So you should check if this is the case, or if you are populating the meta tag outside of the head section.
    --Ray
    Wrensoft Web Software
    Sydney, Australia
    Zoom Search Engine

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    • #3
      Tags are in the head section. See partical code from one of the pages below.


      <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
      <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
      <head>
      <!--<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="favicon.ico">-->
      <title>Off Road Driving Tips | Take your 4wd Off Road Safely and Enjoy the Experience | AHG</title>
      <meta name="description" content="4WD Off Road Guide. Taking your car off road is a rewarding experience, as long as you do it safely. This guide will help minimise the chance of damaging your car or getting stranded far from home.">
      <meta name="keywords" content="4wd, four wheel drive, driving guide, off road, training">
      <meta content="7 days" name="revisit-after" />
      <meta content="index,follow" name="robots" />
      <meta name="ZOOMIMAGE" content="images/zoom/4WD_General.jpg"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
      <link href="stylesheets/styleSheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheets/lightbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
      <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
      <script src="includes/javascript/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

      <script src="includes/javascript/prototype.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
      <script src="includes/javascript/scriptaculous.js?load=effects" type="text/javascript"></script>
      <script src="includes/javascript/lightbox.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
      </head>
      <body>
      <script type="text/javascript" src="includes/wz_tooltip.js"></script>
      <div id="wrapper">

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      • #4
        We've done some more testing and we can confirm that this is caused by a bug. The problem is actually due to the parsing code for the robots meta tag.

        This bug only affects Spider Mode indexing, with "robots" support enabled, and on pages which contain a robots meta tag as in the above example (where the content= attribute appears before the name=), that is:

        <meta content="index,follow" name="robots">
        It does not affect pages where the name and content attributes for the meta robots tag are the other way around.

        We will fix this in the next build release. In the meantime, you can workaround this problem by replacing the robots tag with:

        <meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
        Or by disabling robots.txt support (on the "Scan Options" tab of the Configuration window).
        --Ray
        Wrensoft Web Software
        Sydney, Australia
        Zoom Search Engine

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        • #5
          Thank you will give it a try.

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