Improve Mosets Tree 2.0 SEO by editing listing title and description

Here is a little tip how to improve Mosets Tree 2.0 SEO by changing the title tag and meta description tag.

Actualy i was wondering if  i can show Category name in front of Listing title in the title of my pages, because names of my categories are words that my site should be optimized for.

After some search i found out that Mtree is making invalid meta title tag.

It is generating title tag like this

<meta name="title" content="Link name -" />

At the begining i fixed the meta title tag.

I checked mtree.php file, and on line 1420

there is

$mainframe->addMetaTag( 'title' , $link->link_name.'-'.$cat_name );

which should be

$mainframe->addMetaTag( 'title' , $link->link_name.' - '.$link->cat_name );

The second step was to put category name in front of listing name in title tag.

In the same file mtree.php, around line 1416 i found following code

$mainframe->setPageTitle( html_entity_decode_utf8($link->link_name) );

and changed it with

$mainframe->setPageTitle( $link->cat_name.' - '.html_entity_decode_utf8($link->link_name) );

This steps made my Mosets Tree titles look like

Category name – Link name

Which in some cases can be better for your SEO.

Then i decided to fix my description tags a little by taking first 200 characters from the text and putting them into meta description tag, so on line 1431 i changed:

$document->setDescription( strip_tags($link->metadesc );

to

$document->setDescription( substr(strip_tags($link->link_desc), 0, 200) );

Hopefully this little steps will help you in optimizing your Mosets tree directory, and get better rankings.

These are not the only thig that will bring your site on the first page of Google, but they can help.

Good luck

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