Meteotemplate Forum

Posted: **Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:45 am**

Hi.
When I Google my weather website "Fjærvoll Weathersørvis", Google doesn´t do a good job.

Is it possible to make a block were I can fill in words (metatags) that the Google crawler will use to find my weatherpage?

http://fjærvollan.no/template/indexDesktop.php

Posted: **Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:10 pm**

The metatag you have should work.

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<meta property="og:title" content="Fjærvoll Weathersørvis">

Mine is filled out also.

My google search (3rd one down):

: Google.jpg (124.74 KiB) Viewed 11045 times

Do you prohibit crawlers in your .htaccess? I currently allow all crawlers. You can ask Google to re-crawl your website (If you need to modify your .htaccess file). https://support.google.com/webmasters/a ... 5812?hl=en

Posted: **Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:29 pm**

OK.. It seems your domain is hosting other information/pages, including Meteotemplate..

From the screenshot below, you can see the pages Google has crawled.

: Site.jpg (84.75 KiB) Viewed 11036 times

Check your Google index status: https://support.google.com/webmasters/a ... 5256?hl=en

I don't see your meteotemplate site listed, thus not crawled. You can rectify this by using this index file from the wiki.

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<html>
	<head>
	<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=template/index.php" />
	<title>Meteotemplate</title>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
	<meta name="description" content="Meteotemplate - free website template for weather enthusiasts." />
	<meta name="keywords" content="meteotemplate, weather, climate, station, template, website" />
	<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />
	<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
	</head>
</html>

Make sure to modify the description and keywords here as well.

You can find the instructions in the Wiki, under Configuration. Click on the "NOTE FOR LINUX APACHE SERVERS!!!". There may be another way to get around this, but I don't know how.

Posted: **Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:39 pm**

Please note that Google crawler does not use meta tags, or if it does only very marginally. Google is now intelligent enough to scan your page and its contents and categorize it based on that. Meta tags were very easy to misuse and so Google found more sophisticated ways of looking at your page.
For example, the title meta tag, previously very important, is nowadays completely ignored by Google, Bing and Yahoo.

Posted: **Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:01 pm**

Hmm..

If that's the case, then why is my page pulling up and tobydude's isn't?

Is it that I'm using the index file in the root directory forwarding it to the template folder from the wiki?

Posted: **Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:58 pm**

Thanks, all. i´ll look into it.

Posted: **Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:06 pm**

Sorry, in my previous post I meant the "keywords" metatag is ignored, not title.

All MT pages use the same meta tags, so the fact google indexes one other than anothre one is really Google´s secret. No-one knows the algorithm of Google, which btw. has over 700 elements it looks at. Something must be different, it could be age of your page, combination of blocks, previous search history etc etc

Posted: **Thu Feb 08, 2018 8:55 am**

Fraggboy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:29 pm OK.. It seems your domain is hosting other information/pages, including Meteotemplate..

I have remooved all other than Meteotemplate, now.
Takes time to digest all this info.

I have made an entry in index.php in meteotmplate. Dont know if it will work, thou..

"?>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="keywords" content="Fjærvoll weatherservice bø i vesterålen fjærvollan værstasjon Bø weathersørvis weather service"></head>
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="TebXLs87krFN34mvsuzIjoRtGDHCgAPlDUCK_zhj0Ro" />
<title><?php echo $pageName?></title>
<?php metaHeader();?>
</head>
<body>

</body>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
isMobile = mobileCheck();
isTablet = mobileTabletCheck();
screenWidth = $(window).wi"

Posted: **Thu Feb 08, 2018 2:57 pm**

The index file I provided above has to go in the root folder, not in the template folder. I copied it below. This can be found in the wiki.

Leave the index.php file alone that's in the template folder. When I type in your domain (http://fjærvollan.no/), I get a thumbs-up. This index file will automatically redirect all traffic to your template (If you wish). It's in the Wiki.

I don't know the changes that you have made in your other index.php file will be sufficient. Sorry.

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<html>
	<head>
	<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=template/index.php" />
	<title>Meteotemplate</title>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
	<meta name="description" content="Meteotemplate - free website template for weather enthusiasts." />
	<meta name="keywords" content="meteotemplate, weather, climate, station, template, website" />
	<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />
	<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
	</head>
</html>

Posted: **Thu Feb 08, 2018 3:07 pm**

ok. Thanks. I´ll look in to it.
I´v got a new domain (fjærvoll.com) and I will probobly move the site (fjærvollan.no) to a new webhotell.

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