I noticed a not-so-SEO-friendly situation with dew-newPHPlinks. Many of the meta descriptions / meta keywords are almost identical, or in the case of owner.html and review.html they are identical. This is not very helpful to people looking through search engine results. As such, I've hacked the code to display some different meta data for different pages, and where (at the moment) it is impractical to add decent meta data I have opted to remove it entirely and let Google et al create their own snippets.

Also, to get rid of what are essentially junk pages from SERPs I have added a robots meta tag of "noindex, follow" (e.g. lost.html - there is no reason to have this indexed by a search engine!).

Now, if there is an elegant way to grab a category description at the time the page header is written (on category pages) then it would be a nice idea to dump the first 128 or so characters into the meta description tag. Likewise, I think echoing the category description before the site listings would add a small bonus for engines such as Google which don't like pages that are simply a collection of likes. This means a little more 'setup' is required by webmasters when building categories, but getting a higher SERP placing is also important.

Anyone interested in the code I've hacked together, please let me know and I will post it (it is all basically a mod to the main 'directory' script.

Cheers,
Graeme