Hi. I am going to get rid if some meta tags on thousands of pages, the tags are different in all pages. How can I do this ? One way could be to delete line 5, 6, and 7 in the html, but how to do that in thousands of pages ? I can do it server side or local, doesnt matter. thanks, best, c.
there is no actual way of doing this I don't think. should've started out with dynamic pages if all the pages are in the same folder, you could use the find and replace function in many editors. that's what I used to do anyways back in the golden days.
Thanks for your answers, the problem is that all the metas are different, unique for each page, so search and replace is not going to work. Or do you mean if the meta type are the same ? In that case yes. I want to take away description keyword revisit-after What about some php script that takes away line 5, 6, 7 in the html ?
That could work and you could search the lines to make sure they are the right ones. But after they are removed, what do you want there?
Then I have to find somebody that are willing to help with the php code : ) After I have removed them I dont want anything there I think. I have this 3000 pages in google supplemental. They did ok before going there and this is part of a "plan" (witch I dont have, or noone else it looks like) to get out of supp.
I have a suggestion: Do it locally. (or rather, not live on your webserver, maybe you have a shell account or something. Local will make sure you can experiment.) 1. stuff all your html in a directory (or make sure you can program it to find the pages) 2. make a program or script that searches the first 10 lines for "meta" and have it delete that line. You can have it search for specific metas like "keywords" or "description" or "revisit" to make sure that is the correct line. Something like [if line has meta and keyword then delete this line]. You don't want to just delete the line number without checking if that is the line you want deleted. The specifics of this require you to know how to program scripts, or maybe even something like Visual Basic or one of the free interpreted languages. You can do it yourself, or you can outsource the job. I'd be happy to check out your pages, but I wouldn't want to do all thousands of them. Maybe you can give examples of these pages with meta tags. (or zip up a dozen of them and have them available for download?) While you're at it, you might want to have the program get rid of whitespace or double spaces. And of course, back up. You don't want a mistake.
This will not be hard for even a novice php guy. However, I dunno if removing them will help. Are they all the same on every page? Are the pages setup in a way that some maybe H1 tag could be found and used for the title and maybe something exle for the description?
Its pages with very little text. I use H1 for title and H2 for a one line explanation, H3 for another explanation. Then there are some text without tags. Another thing i noticed, their motherpages all have PR4, still theses pages has PR0. They are all the same age, maybe that comes with the supp.
I don't think you should remove the unique meta tags, you may want to improve on your content text maybe. Because I am facing the supplemental index without the meta tags (and currently working on adding tags). No matter how you look at it, we are both screwed.
I want to remove the tags because they all have the same text, its my first web site and I see that now that it looks spammy. You know, same text in title, description, keyword, H1 and H2. Its not good, but at the time I made them I thought that it was just good SEO : )))) Thanks for the idea Dabs "[if line has meta and keyword then delete this line]." That would be perfect to have a php script doing that, could also be used for numerous other purposes. What I want to change is from: <title>Welcome to blah - blah text blah blah radio online</title> <meta name="description" content="blah - blah text blah blah Radio and more."/> <meta name="keywords" content="blah - blah, text, blah, blah, radio "/> <meta name="revisit-after" content="10 days"/> to <title>Welcome to blah - blah text blah blah radio online</title>