Adding H1 Tags to your Forum and Threads

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-01-2006, 11:38 PM

add this to your CSS

Code:

#title
{
    font: bold 160% Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding: 10px 0px 10px 0px;
    text-align: center;
}
#desc
{
    font-size: 70%;
    font-weight: normal;
    text-align: left;
}

and add this under your $navbar on forumdisplay and showthread

code:

Code:

<h1 id="title">
    $foruminfo[title_clean]
    <div id="desc">$foruminfo[description]</div>
</h1>

This was posted by TECK
he is very knowledgeable on this subject...

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-04-2006, 01:55 PM

vBSEO has a setting like this, but better

, here is a break down

(1) NEW FEATURE: Relevant Replacements - The new relevant replacements feature can be enabled from within your vBSEO Admin CP.

The Relevant Replacements feature is a significant step forward in boosting the relevancy of vBSEO-enabled pages by giving the forum admin the ability to insert combinations (i.e. phrases) containing various highly relevant content anywhere they want in their vBulletin templates. This is a very powerful feature, especially for more advanced SEO professionals.

Relevant phrase patterns are created within the vBSEO Admin Control Panel in the "Define Relevant Replacements" section.

The relevant phrase patterns can be constructed using any of the following replacement patterns along with plain text:

[thread_title] - For showthread, showpost, and printthread pages it will contain the title of the thread.
[forum_description] - For forumdisplay, showthread (etc) pages, it will contain the forum description.
[forum_title] - For forumdisplay, showthread (etc) pages, it will contain the title of the forum.
[bb_title] - For any vBSEO rewritten page, it will contain the title of your forum as defined in your vBulletin Admin CP.
[default_keywords] - For any vBSEO rewritten page, it will contain the basic forum keywords as defined in your vBulletin Admin CP.
[first_post_X_words] - For showthread, showpost, and printthread pages it will contain the first X words of the actual post. Note: The X is replaced in order to indicate the # of words you want to use in the replacement pattern. Example: [first_post_10_words] would take the first 10 words from the post to be used in the relevant replacement pattern.

The replacement patterns can be used in any combination to construct relevant replacement phrases that will be inserted by vBSEO into any of your templates in which you insert a corresponding comment tag in the format of .

The X is replaced by a # corresponding to the replacement pattern you created in your vBSEO Admin CP. Example:

Replacement Patterns

PHP Code:

[thread_title] at the [forum_title] within the [bb_title]
[thread_title]: [first_post_10_words]

The [thread_title] at the [forum_title] within the [bb_title] replacement pattern would replace the  tag whereever it occurs in any of your templates.
The [thread_title]: [first_post_10_words] replacement pattern would replace the  tag whereever it occurs in any of your templates.

After creating the above replacement patterns, the admin would insert the  and  tags into their vBulletin templates in *any* place they wish vBSEO to apply the relevant replacement content.

Note: We expect you all, with the exception of a few of our vBSEO gurus, to have some questions about this feature. As always, feel free to ask away and the Crawlability team, our moderators, and your fellow vBSEO users will help you to get started!

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-04-2006, 02:11 PM

this is what we're using here

forumdisplay

Code:

<strong>[forum_title] at the [bb_title]</strong> <span class="smallfont">[forum_description]</span><br />

and showthread

Code:

<strong>[forum_title]</strong> <span class="smallfont">Discuss <em>[thread_title]</em> in the [parent_forum_title] forums; [first_post_20_words]...</span>

and I put this right under $navbar on SHOWTHREAD and FORUMDESPLAY

Code:

<center><h1><!--VBSEO_RR_1--></h1></center>

here is where you edit in vbseocp

rr.jpg

hope that helps the vbseo users

**Sonnie** · 08-04-2006, 02:13 PM

I need to study this a little closer... looks very interesting and obviously would help out our forum.

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-04-2006, 02:14 PM

i posted a how to,, u might have been replying while i was posting..

Talk to you later, I'm off to work

one day I'll be able to play with sites all day.. yeah !...heh

ps. by the time we get done with your site, it will be crawling with bots

**ohiosweetheart** · 08-04-2006, 02:21 PM

hey I want mine crawling with bots toooooooooooooooooooo

Hi Sonnie!

**Sonnie** · 08-04-2006, 02:28 PM

Hi sweetheart!

I can't wait myself... I'm pretty excited. I'm gonna have a new host and an upgraded site.

**Sonnie** · 08-04-2006, 02:34 PM

Looks like I would need to turn back on my forum description in vb options then add the code to my vbseo. Plus take out the CSS and header tags I inserted in the templates.

**ohiosweetheart** · 08-04-2006, 07:09 PM

why do you need to do that?

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-04-2006, 09:40 PM

no, you don't need the forum descriptions on

vbseo will do that for you, but we'll talk more about it soon. I just got home and the dog is whining, so I need to take care of here, grab a bite to eat rest, and go to bed to do it agian tomarrow

**Sonnie** · 08-29-2006, 08:37 PM

I noticed I couldn't get an html page I built to validate due to the <div align="center"> tag. I also have a php page I created with an html template in vB that I can't get to validate because of the same reasons. What's the consequences? The page still looks fine in IE and FF.

I'm not having any problems validating <br />.

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-29-2006, 08:48 PM

maybe it would help if I knew the URL, is it just the one line that's keeping u from being valid ?

**soultrader** · 09-12-2006, 09:09 PM

for myh1... do i need to change the "my" part?

**Brandon Sheley** · 09-12-2006, 09:17 PM

you want to use this code

Code:

<h1 id="title">
	$foruminfo[title_clean]
	<div id="desc">$foruminfo[description]</div>
</h1>

Teck was correcting what we had posted b4

I'm still learning for others too, I'll update the first post to note this

**soultrader** · 09-13-2006, 05:33 AM

Sorry... Im not too sure if I understand. the myh1 part, the "my" needs no changes?

**Brandon Sheley** · 09-13-2006, 10:35 AM

since your using vBSEO I'd check out post #2 and #3

vbseo has a much better feature then the other coders here..

and I'll clean this thread up to remove the old code.. it will ease the confusion.

**Brandon Sheley** · 09-17-2006, 05:16 PM

I cleaned up this thread so its easier to understand

**RedMatrix** · 10-11-2006, 04:49 PM

I am using this hack on my brand new forum. Let's see how it goes.

**Brandon Sheley** · 10-11-2006, 05:16 PM

It should help out better then stock

I'd look at time2dines post if you really want to set things up to optimize the header tag

**RedMatrix** · 10-11-2006, 06:06 PM

What do you think? Hero Lounge

**Brandon Sheley** · 10-11-2006, 06:14 PM

nice looking site

the tags from this thread look good to

I'd check out the "make your welcome message an image" thread here

**RedMatrix** · 10-15-2006, 10:40 PM

I have added this hack onto the $navbar template, BEFORE the breadcrumb path. In my opinion, it looks much better.

I also edited the hack because I use pictures in the description, and I wanted to save some space. This picture shows that the clean title is UNDER the description.

in $navbar

Code:

<if condition="$show['forumdesc']">
 <table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
  <tr>
   <td class="alt1" width="100%">
     <H1 id="title">
      <div id="desc">
        $foruminfo[description]</div>
        $foruminfo[title_clean]
     </h1>
   </td>
  </tr>
 </table>
</if>

in CSS

Code:

#title {
    font: bold 160% Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding: 0 10px;
    text-align: left;
    color: #212EC7;}
#desc {
    font-size: 50%;
    font-weight: normal;
    text-align: left;
    color: #000000;}

**Brandon Sheley** · 10-16-2006, 05:13 AM

thanks for the code

ya, I like the look in the navbar better also. it's whats recommended at time2dine's site..
Search Engine Optimize vBulletin 3.5-SEO vBulletin-Time2Dine Forum

big-ah · 11-06-2006, 06:20 PM

what it H1 Tags ?!