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drunkbnu

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hummerz5

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Re: Forum meta tags

if anyone's feeling particularly nitpicky can we discuss how google assumes every thread has <= 25 posts and <= 25 authors? I mean if we could get rid of that information I'd be okay with that as well.

(so is that a meta thing?) is my question I guess

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drunkbnu

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Re: Forum meta tags

Google seems to have a very interesting implementation, which checks for patterns within the page's source to determine posts and authors after confirming that the page is a forum.

However, the forums can easily add the amount of replies to the description, as the tags will be obviously generated via PHP. So other platforms don't have to struggle with replies.

LukeM

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Re: Forum meta tags

Google seems to have a very interesting implementation, which checks for patterns within the page code to determine posts and authors if he page is a forum.

From the looks of it its because the forums are split into pages, so it only takes the posts from the first page (also google doesnt see the page's code as thats PHP)

Edit: Unless you mean HTML (which isnt code!!!!!), in which case maybe

drunkbnu

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Re: Forum meta tags

By page code I wanted to mean the HTML source. It's part of their "Structured data & rich snippets" system.

Thanks for correcting me there.

LukeM

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Re: Forum meta tags

By page code I wanted to mean the HTML source. It's part of their "Structured data & rich snippets" system.

Ok, youre probably right about that but after some googling it seems quite secretive

And maybe it is code, after some more googling its not code by the actual definition of code ('program instructions' - its definately not a programming language), but some other websites seem to refer to it as code, so maybe