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Limit dynamic meta description, How to?

 
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Limit dynamic meta description, How to?
darkknight187
23 Nov, 2007 - 09:25 AM
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In order to make my site more search engine friendly, I have decided to make the meta description pull the listing description and insert it into the meta description.

Here's my code.

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Dim metaDescription As New HtmlMeta
metaDescription.Name = "description"
metaDescription.Content = ad.Description + " This is a test"
Page.Header.Controls.Add(metaDescription)


The only issue I have is that some of the descriptions can be quite long, How can I limit the description so it will only accept so many words???

Thank you in advance,

Daniel
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RE: Limit Dynamic Meta Description, How To?
23 Nov, 2007 - 02:01 PM
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Nevermind, I figured it out.

Here's what will do it.

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Dim metaDescription As New HtmlMeta
            Dim MetaCount As Integer = ad.Description.Length

            metaDescription.Name = "description"

            If MetaCount <= 150 Then
                metaDescription.Content = ad.Description
            Else
                metaDescription.Content = ad.Description.ToString().Substring(0, 150)
            End If

            Page.Header.Controls.Add(metaDescription)


Thanks anyway

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