Forum Name in Browser Title

PatrickForum · January 29, 2011, 12:23:18 AM

@Labradoodle-360

I have something important to say about your mod "forum name in browser title"

In your mod you have set a rel= canonical tag to /index.php

This tells Google that this is my prefferred page to index and show up in the search results.

But I want to change this to / instead of index.php, how can I do this and are there any disadvantages by doing this from an SEO/Google perspective?

Thanks.

Matthew K. · January 29, 2011, 01:27:57 AM

That is not added by my mod...

PatrickForum · January 29, 2011, 03:29:00 AM

Sorry, but when I saw the following code, that was what I thought:


   <title>Name Of My Forum xxx - Forumindex</title>
   <link rel="canonical" href="xxxxx/index.php" />
   <link rel="help" href="xxxxx/help/" />
   <link rel="search" href="xxxxx/search/" />
   <link rel="contents" href="xxxxx/index.php" />
   <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="xxxxx - RSS" href="xxxxx/.xml/?type=rss" /><script src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

xxxx=titles and url's of my forum.

So, those tags are not made by the "Forum Name In Browser Title" mod? huh? I'm confused

Matthew K. · January 30, 2011, 01:36:12 PM

No...and if you parse the mod you can see what code is added or modified.

Only the <title></title> tags were added, if I am remembering correctly.

PatrickForum · January 30, 2011, 04:29:23 PM

All right, then I think that this canonical tag was pre-installed by SMF, after checking the following post:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=251309.msg2932384#msg2932384

QuoteSMF 2.0 already tells google that such content is duplicate by use of the
<meta content="noindex" name="robots">
and
<link href=".........." rel="canonical">
tags, which is more specific than robots.txt and is automatic.

The problem is that Google sees my forum homepage as a "duplicate content" page, because the "/" and the "/index.php" pages are of course both the same, but also both discoverable for GoogleBot and that causes serious problems for indexing. I solved this problem yesterday by using Google-friendly 301-redirects.

Matthew K. · January 30, 2011, 04:32:26 PM

PatrickForum - If you need help with something that's not related to my mod, you should open your own topic

PatrickForum · January 30, 2011, 04:33:28 PM

I understand. It was not my intention to bother you. I thought this tag was implemented by your mod, but it was not.
I updated my last post.

Matthew K. · January 30, 2011, 04:35:14 PM

It's not a bother at all, but this really is the topic for support regarding this mod's support, so it's good to keep it that way so things can be well organized.

PatrickForum · March 18, 2011, 10:18:12 AM

Question about: Forum Name as Prefix for Forum Title - mod

On the homepage it generates [my forum name] - forumindex - [my forum name]
and I want to change it to: [my forum name] - forumindex
or better yet: [my forum name] - other words then forumindex

How can I do that? Can somebody help me with this? Thanks.

Matthew K. · March 18, 2011, 11:06:43 AM

Do you have a portal installed?

PatrickForum · March 18, 2011, 11:15:02 AM

No. No portal installed.
(by the way, link to my forum is in my signature/profile)

Matthew K. · March 18, 2011, 11:17:37 AM

You'd have to attach Load.php and index.template.php so I could take a peak.

PatrickForum · March 18, 2011, 11:49:45 AM

Thanks. The files are attached.

PatrickForum · March 19, 2011, 09:14:16 AM

Have you discovered anything, dear Labradoodle-360?

prince sharma · March 19, 2011, 10:01:53 AM

pls tell me the steps of changing the name of page..when i install this mod .It change my page title in index.Now [nofollow] how i can change it ?

PatrickForum · March 19, 2011, 10:05:19 AM

Do you mean how you change the title of your forum?

prince sharma · March 19, 2011, 10:10:18 AM

Quote from: PatrickForum on March 19, 2011, 10:05:19 AM
Do you mean how you change the title of your forum?

yes ..

PLS PLS ANYBODY HELP

PatrickForum · March 20, 2011, 05:57:30 AM

You can edit the title-tag in index.template.php file which can be found under /themes/default
But there must be a setting somewhere in the controlpanel.

During the installation you had a option to input the name of your forum.

I don't know where you can find this setting within your admin panel
Searching will help.

I'm not a SMF expert. I'm a newbie also.

Matthew K. · March 20, 2011, 11:40:17 AM

Admin -> Configuration -> Server Settings is how you can change your forum name. Assuming you're using 2.0, not sure where it is anymore in 1.1, although possibly same area.

Patrick - Not had a chance to look yet.

C4G-TK · June 18, 2011, 08:18:19 PM

Emulated RC4 and installed on 2.0 w/o problems.
Working fine here on Curve and custom theme.

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