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9/11/2010 7:49:25 PM
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Forums SEO

Hello.

I see in the forums posts

website name - forum name - post title

as a Page Title. This is not good for SEO reasons. The most important part goes to the LEFT and not to the right as it is now (the post title is the important and it is last on the right, maybe totally ignored by search engines due to line length).

The Page title in forum post should be

Post title - forum name - website

The website should be optional. Because unless it is a brand name or a keyword, it is of no use.

thanks

9/11/2010 10:02:36 PM
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Re: Forums SEO

I see that the same logic goes to the Blog module.

Website name - Post Title

9/11/2010 10:36:39 PM
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Re: Forums SEO

Ok i got it !

 

http://www.mojoportal.com/seo-page-title-format.aspx

9/13/2010 6:20:27 PM
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Re: Forums SEO

Hello.

The options TitleOnly, SitePlusTitle, or TitlePlusSite are not enough for the Forums. But using

<add key="PageTitleFormatName" value="TitleOnly" />

in the forums it is not respected. Also The Forum Name is needed and right now it CAN"T be displayed.

thanks

3/10/2011 9:08:45 AM
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Re: Forums SEO

you are going wrong as seo point of view

website name - forum name - post title

it is easily understandable

 

3/10/2011 9:12:56 AM
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Re: Forums SEO

Of cource not.

The website name is not needed, except if it is a brand name.

The forum name also usually means nothing.

If you look at the 2 top SEO and IM forums you will see only the Post title.

 

3/14/2011 7:02:09 AM
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Re: Forums SEO

In the current version of mojoPortal the title on Thread.aspx is pagename - thread subject, where pagename is the name of the page containing the forums. On this site the page name is Forums so it is Forums - Thread Subject.

Given the character limitations of title, it does not seem wise to add the forum name.

I can see where someone might want to leave out the page name and use only the thread subject, so I've implemented a config setting that can be used to make that happen. In the next release of mojoPortal you could add this:

<add key="Forum:UsePageNameInThreadTitle" value="false" /> (the default is true)

Best,

Joe

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