How to get a search script to disregard meta tags?

nebulus posted this at 13:22 — 14th April 2000.

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Hi all. I'm using Matt's Script Archive Easy Search script and it's fantastic. The only hangup I have is that I 've got a site that has the same Meta Tags on each page. If a search keyword happens to be in the Meta Tag, then every page on the whole site gets listed.

How would one work the regular expression searching to avoid anything in between <Meta and the end of the tag > ?

Thanks for any help!

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ROB posted this at 05:27 — 15th April 2000.

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something like /<META.+>/ will match meta tags. im not familiar with the script, post it if you need more help

cds posted this at 06:33 — 15th April 2000.

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If I might be curious, why are you using the same tags on each page? Unless every page is identicle, I would make your meta tags match the page content

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Orpheus posted this at 07:47 — 15th April 2000.

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I have to agree with cds. You really need to change those tags.

Rob Pengelly posted this at 14:27 — 15th April 2000.

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I think that Matt's script opens each file up, stores it in a $variable and than searches it. So after the contnets of the file is placed in $string, just add:

code:

$string =~ s/<meta(.*)>//gi;
[/code]
So that will look for any meta tags, and delete them from the $string.

Hope that helped.

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nebulus posted this at 18:04 — 15th April 2000.

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Hey, that's exactly what I was looking for! I'd have different meta tags on the pages, but at 267 pages total for the site with more to come, the suits don't want to spend the money for me to make those changes.

I think this'll work - I'll keep ya posted!

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cds posted this at 21:14 — 15th April 2000.

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You might want to point out to the "suits" that if they spent the money, they have 267 different chances of getting listed someway in the search engines vs. 1 way and have the chance of a search engine saying, wow, this guy is trying to spam us and delete your listing completely.

Dan

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