Extension talk:MetaKeywordsTag

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This extension is just adding another meta tag for keywords, not replacing the existing one. Does anyone know if this is allowed/supported by search engines?

<meta name="keywords" content="a,b,c,d,e" /> 
<meta name="keywords" content="Test123" /> 

AFAIK, Search engines don't really use meta keywords anymore. But I have no idea whether those that do will acknowledge multiple such tags. --Jimbojw 15:56, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Multiple Meta Tags

According to this article, there is no problem with multiple meta tags.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/03/using-robots-meta-tag.html

Terrybritton 22:25, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Replace existing keywords patch

Here is a patch for replacing existing meta keywords tag:

--- MetaKeywordsTag-orig.php	Fri Aug 21 15:04:03 2009
+++ MetaKeywordsTag.php	Fri Aug 21 15:05:33 2009
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
     # Merge keyword data into OutputPage as meta tags
     foreach ($data AS $item) {
         $content = @base64_decode($item);
-        if ($content) $out->addMeta( 'keywords', $content );
+		if ($content) $out->mKeywords  = explode(',', $content);
     }
     return true;
 }

How about to add special parameter to tag which will decide what to do with existing keywords?

Possible actions:

• add duplicate meta keywords tag (default, for compatibility)
• append new keywords to existing
• replace existing

--Nettroll 11:13, 21 August 2009 (UTC)