meta tags: extra keywords, secondary & tertiary?

[dyna moe]

in the meta_tags.php file the code includes case 1 //extra keywords. why are they called extra keywords? if they are extra keywords, then where/what are the usual/normal keywords?

also, what are the secondary and tertiary sections output?

[ridexbuilder]

http://wiki.oscdox.com/set_up_meta_tags
http://wiki.oscdox.com/custom_meta_tags

tertiary - definition of tertiary by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. etc.

[dyna moe]

that doesn't answer the questions nor does it help any whatsoever, i'm not even sure why you wasted your time posting that. i've read the meta tag wiki pages and forum posts on meta tags and my questions still stand.

[dyna moe]

now that i see you are an oscmax developer i am even more chagrined by your thoughtless & smart aleck comment.

[pgmarshall]

As per the wiki ...

//Extra keywords that will be outputted on every page

Basically - osCmax dynamically adds the keywords from your product descriptions, categories, page titles, etc. This extra bit allows you to force certain words onto every page. You will have a clearer understanding if you view source on one of your pages ...

If you look at the code for includes/meta_tags.php you will see the Secondary and Tertiary sections shown as defines at the top - they basically split up the different keywords that are added to your meta tags. Ie. - , : etc.

that doesn't answer the questions nor does it help any whatsoever, i'm not even sure why you wasted your time posting that. i've read the meta tag wiki pages and forum posts on meta tags and my questions still stand.

Erm! He helpfully posted links to wiki which describes in some details about metatags. You may well have read this but how on earth is he meant to know this? Perhaps in your first post you should have said so!

Eg. "Hi Guys, I know you do this for free and everything but I have read the wiki and I still don't understand the metatags stuff - could you explain ... "

I suspect that you will get more help and assistance with this approach instead of:

now that i see you are an oscmax developer i am even more chagrined by your thoughtless & smart aleck comment.

Which I am pretty sure will not endear RidexBuilder into helping you out in the future! He has posted nearly 2,000 reponses to questions here to help people out who are stuck and further more I really don't see what has upset you so much - where is the smart aleck comment? Are you upset by a link to the definition of Tertiary?

Anyway - I hope the above answers your question.

Regards,

[dyna moe]

extra implies above the normal, where and what are the normal keywords added to a page?


tertiary means 3rd, i'm aware of that. no where in the wiki does it inform me how tertiary is applied re: meta tags.

where and what is the tertiary instance of meta tags?

[pgmarshall]

extra implies above the normal, where and what are the normal keywords added to a page?

They are Dynamic - this means that they are added depending on the content of the page.

Most are structured as follows:

define('META_TAG_TITLE', NAVBAR_TITLE_1 . PRIMARY_SECTION . TITLE . $web_site_tagline);
define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', TITLE . PRIMARY_SECTION . NAVBAR_TITLE_1 . SECONDARY_SECTION . WEB_SITE_KEYWORDS);
define('META_TAG_KEYWORDS', WEB_SITE_KEYWORDS . NAVBAR_TITLE_1);

PRIMARY_SECTION = ":"
SECONDARY_SECTION = "-"
TERTIARY_SECTION = ","

The PRIMARY, SECONDARY and TERTIARY are the dividers used between the meta tags and words - view source to see how this works ...

NAVBAR_TITLE = Is defined in the language files
TITLE = The page title
WEB_SITE_KEYWORDS = Basically your categories names + and extra keywords you added to the previously discussed stuff.

The query is as follows:

$mt_keywords_string ='';
$mt_categories_query = tep_db_query("select cd.categories_name from " . TABLE_CATEGORIES . " c, " . TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION . " cd where c.parent_id = '0' and c.categories_id = cd.categories_id and cd.language_id='" . (int)$languages_id ."'");
while ($mt_categories = tep_db_fetch_array($mt_categories_query)) {
$mt_keywords_string .= $mt_categories['categories_name'] . ',';

And that is basically it ...