SEO. Php page files. Inert code description?

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Grassman

  • #1
    I apologise for the complete lack of SEO terminology but I am trying to find out the following.
    Within my osCommerce shop files there are the usual meta ‘Title’ ‘Description’ and ‘Keyword’ tags which I understand the importance of but right at the start of the php coding there is some description that doesn’t appear to do anything other than promote osCommerce.
    I presume Googlebot reads this piece of inert code and I should be changing it on every page for my own gain.
    Am I right or will I be wasting my time?
     
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    Laura22

  • #2
    Hi Grassman,

    Ideally you want to get rid of any text that isn't specific to your site and keywords as it just dilutes the good content that you have. Not sure specifically what you're referring to here...perhaps if you can copy and paste the code we'll be able to help more, but I'm guessing it's just OSCommerce waffle that can be removed.

    Laura
     
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    Grassman

  • #3
    Laura22 said:
    perhaps if you can copy and paste the code we'll be able to help more, but I'm guessing it's just OSCommerce waffle that can be removed.
    Click to expand...

    Thanks Laura
    I don't know why I didn't to be honest (I don't think too well first thing lol)
    This is what I am referring to

    <?php
    /*
    $Id: account.php,v 1.61 2003/06/09 23:03:52 hpdl Exp $
    osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
    http://www.oscommerce.com
    Copyright (c) 2003 osCommerce
    Released under the GNU General Public License
    ?>
    <!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
    <html <?php echo HTML_PARAMS; ?>>
    <head>
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    What I would really like to know is should I replace it with my own specific keyworded waffle?

    Thanks again
     
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    Laura22

  • #4
    Hi Grassman,

    Nope this is just OS Commerce waffle and can be deleted. Perhaps just store the version info ie. v 1.61 2003/06/09 incase you ever need it in the future.

    You want to delete this section only:

    <?php
    /*
    $Id: account.php,v 1.61 2003/06/09 23:03:52 hpdl Exp $
    osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
    http://www.oscommerce.com
    Copyright (c) 2003 osCommerce
    Released under the GNU General Public License
    ?>

    Hope that helps,
    Laura
     
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    creospace

  • #5
    You want to delete this section only:

    <?php
    /*
    $Id: account.php,v 1.61 2003/06/09 23:03:52 hpdl Exp $
    osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
    http://www.oscommerce.com
    Copyright (c) 2003 osCommerce
    Released under the GNU General Public License
    ?>
    Click to expand...

    This is a php comment and not code as such - it is not 'waffle' and looks like a licence comment that should remain there in the original source code. Because it is a php comment when the file is parsed and served to the browser it will not appear in the browser and so wont effect any seo.
     
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