[SOLVED] Adding "page 2" in meta description ?

[Mister Denial]

Hi folks,

 

there is a fix by Presto-Changeo out to fix the duplicate meta title issue by adding a number for the titel for subsequent category pages. Is it possible to extend that to the meta description?

 

Like having "blah blah blah" as description on page 1, and "blah blah blah - page 2" for the next page, and so on?

 

I currently am facing the issue that Google ignores the dissallow: p= instruction from robots.txt and I have a load of duplicate warnings I can't get rid of.

 

Help would be much appreciated.

 

Dan

Edited November 19, 2012 by Mister Denial (see edit history)

[viktor123]

Hi, I tried to find a quick solution to the problem.

 

add this function to Page class.

 

 

public function custom_page_number()

{

$page_number = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],-2);

$page_number = trim($page_number,"=");

$page_number = preg_replace('#[^0-9]#','',strip_tags($page_number));

$page_number = trim($page_number);

if(strlen($page_number) > 0) return "results ".$page_number;

else return $page_number;

}

 

it takes the last 2 characters from the url where it says ?p=2 (for page 2), and cleans the "=". Then if you are on page 1, returns empty string, if you are in page > 1, it returns "results 2,3...".

 

You can call this function everywhere, like Page::custom_page_number() and you will avoid duplicate meta description or title, etc..

 

ex: in header.tpl in your theme folder, add the following code

<meta name="description" content="{$meta_description|escape:html:'UTF-8'} {Page::custom_page_number()|escape:html:'UTF-8'}" />

[Phil_Malaysia]

I read the post and am wondering if anyone has tried this? I'm using Prestashop v1.4.8 and would like to also reduce my duplicate content.

 

I shall give the above code a try and post my results.

 

Phil

Kids Toys (Malaysia)

Edited October 3, 2012 by Phil_Malaysia (see edit history)

[marcos223]

just tried and works perfect! thanks

[Mister Denial]

Thanks everyone for their help, works perfectly!