For what pages are you trying to get the keywords? If you're trying to add keywords for the 'job details' pages, you'll have to add them manually. Add the code below to the 'page_job.php' file to add metatags, but do note that they will be the same for every job (I should write something for this, its a serious lack in SEO).

    $smarty->assign('seo_desc', "The generic description for job details pages");
    $smarty->assign('seo_keys', "The generic keywords for job details pages");

ok, this is not exactly the optimal SEO stuff, but good enough if you're lazy (like me )
and it is much much better than nothing

put this somewhere at line 105

Last edited by lxer (2009-03-22 15:44:00)

notmuffy: page_job.php  (see chronos' post)

what it does is: 
use the first 15 words of the jobdescription as Description
use the words in the the pagetitle as Keywords.

of course, you can get a bit more creative with it, and add a few more things. for example:
  $smarty->assign('seo_desc', "jobs, freelance, java,".limitWords($s, 15));

Does anyone know how to get the JobLocation from the database? that would be a nice thing to add to the keywords

Please try to prevent not using the language file. All hardcoded words should be moved to the language.ini file so you don't have to hack core files when translating to a different language.

How can I use the "function limitWords" from above example
to also add commas for each newline and remove all lines ending with ":" and also remove other characters such as slashes, brackets and periods.
Many thanks for any input on this.

@mindanimal
It could work if you replace:
$smarty->assign('seo_desc',

with

$meta_description =

Same for keywords

replace
$smarty->assign('seo_keys',

with
$meta_keywords =

also remember to remove the closing bracket ")" in both cases.

Keep in mind that the above code is just an example.
You may want to use less or more information for your keywords and description, or re-arrange the order of words, add or remove words...
It would be even more useful to be able to get filtered unique words from job postings since it would enable you to provide completely unique (read: not completely identical) tags to each page (unless you have double postings).

This code kind of provides this, but may start generating duplicate meta tags if you have many similar jobs in the same location that begin with same sentence or data structure.

By the way doing as mentioned above works only one thing
this give key words and description of that relevant category as a job detail page's key words and description , nothing else
may be i am doing something wrong. or this was meant to do the same?

I simply collected the code  for 1.8 and placed it on line number 106 of page_job.php, did i do right?
but doing that didn't help much to have the SEO things work like Job post description as meta description or key words.
what this resulted is only meta description and key words of the related category showed in teh job description page.
if you check post of lxer  you will know that what it should do instead

just more one question. how much limit of  words can be extended here limitWords($s, 15));   ? 100 , 200 or what?

Before I tried to also find solution to remove unwanted characters and also unwanted words from text that is fetched with function limitwords.
I found solutions for this on these three sites:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread1721.html#
http://www.devdaily.com/php/php-string- … ce-numbers
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Program … 46468.html

The new code for 1.8 would look like like:

//SEO stuff
        function limitWords($res, $n) {
                $a = explode(' ', $res);
                return implode(' ', array_slice($a, 0, $n));
                }
                $s =strip_tags( $info['description']);
                $res = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]/", "", $s);
                $bad_words = explode('|', badword1|badword2|etc');  
       foreach ($bad_words as $naughty){
                $res = eregi_replace($naughty, "", $res);
                }
                $res = preg_replace('/(\S ) +/', '$1', $res);
$smarty->assign('seo_desc', stripslashes($info['title']) . ' ' . $translations['jobscity']['jobs'] . ' ' . $translations['jobs']['preposition_at'] . ' ' . stripslashes($info['company']) . ' ' . $translations['jobscity']['sidebar_jobs_in'] . ' ' . stripslashes($info['location']) . '. ' . $translations['search']['default'] . ' ' . $translations['jobscity']['sidebar_jobs_in'] . ' ' . stripslashes($info['location']) . '. ' . limitWords($res, 15));
$smarty->assign('seo_keys', stripslashes($info['title']) . ', ' . stripslashes($info['title']) . ' ' . $translations['jobscity']['jobs'] . ', ' . stripslashes($info['company']) . ', ' . stripslashes($info['location']) . ', ' . stripslashes($info['location']) . ' ' . $translations['jobscity']['jobs'] . ', ' . stripslashes($info['location']) . ', ' . limitWords($res, 5));

You have to replace badword1, badword2... with words you do not want to show in your keywords.
I tested this here:
http://freejoblistings.ca/transportatio … ronto.html

For "bad words" I picked the words that have little value like the ones showing on almost every job post.

Has anyone managed to get this working on later versions? I still have jobberbase 1.6 with some parts manually updated, so I can not say for sure if this code will work on 1.8.

Also, if anyone knows a better way to do this, don't be shy.

Last edited by hobo (2010-04-23 01:56:24)

Just a wild guess... try clearing the cache in your template folder. If that doesn't work try turning the error reporting on.
Good luck.

Error reporting returned this.
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare limitwords() (previously declared in ..../page_job.php:142) in ..../page_job.php on line 106