ASP and meta tags

mattchewpa · 07-25-2004, 12:16 PM

I have a problem with my meta tags. Can anyone give me some advice please. I need to populate the meta tags depending on the department ID. The result needs to display the meta tags on the page for each department. Would I use a variable that would be populated dependent on a condition? Would this work or should I try a different approach.

I am under the impression that for your meta tags to work properly the search engine indexers needs to see this code just as it would appear in "viewe source".

Any suggestions or thoughts would be appreciated.

imaginemn · 07-25-2004, 12:52 PM

You could try something like this.

[code:1:531d3a8064]<%@Language=VBScript%>
<%Response.Buffer = True%>
<%
Dim M
Dim x_meta_desc
Dim x_meta_keywords

M = Request.QueryString("id")
If M="" or isnull(M) then
M=Request.Form("id")
End If
If key="" or IsNull(key) Then
M=0
End If

Select Case M
Case 1
x_meta_desc = "123"
x_meta_keywords = "123"
Case 2
x_meta_desc = "xyz"
x_meta_keywords = "xyz"
Case Else
x_meta_desc = "123xyz"
x_meta_keywords = "123xyz"
End Select
%>

<HTML>
<HEAD>

<TITLE>passing values</TITLE>
<meta name="description" content="<%=x_meta_desc%>">
<meta name="keywords" content="<%=x_meta_keywords%>">
</HEAD>

. . .[/code:1:531d3a8064]

imaginemn

mattchewpa · 07-25-2004, 05:56 PM

Thank you for your input. I see how that will work. Wont the Select Case get to long for the page. Could I have that as a subfunction or its own seperate file.

Again Thanks for the input. I think Iam getting on the right track here.

imaginemn · 07-25-2004, 06:31 PM

You could execute this code as an include file like meta_tags.asp. Just to seperate the code and to include it in multiple pages. A sub class would not be better or faster than a select or elseif statement in asp.

imaginemn