Re: [Tiki-devel] Meta-tags, title and description (wiki page) - add a title field

Hi Bernard

Not sure i follow, but you can set the page title meta tag from plugin list, like this:

  {DIV(class="d-none")}{LIST()}
    {pagination max="1"}
    {OUTPUT()}{display name="mytitle" pagetitle="y"}{OUTPUT}
    {FORMAT(name="mytitle")}This is the page title, not the wiki page title{FORMAT}
  {LIST}{DIV}

From:

  https://doc.tiki.org/PluginList---Hacks-and-Fun#Set_the_Browser_Page_Title

Does that help?

jb



> On 11 Oct 2021, at 09:11, Bernard Sfez via TikiWiki-devel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Working on better SEO for some of my Tikis and I’m quit happy with results this I keep improving.
> 
> ---
> 
> Context (in case something can be improved before to get the question):
> I have a Tiki23 multilingual.
> 
> I started with a single page with translated strings.
> I use wiki page description as page title to avoid having a unique title for all my pages (they talk bout different things)
> I use descriptive page name.
> I use multilingual meta-tags.
> 
> Results:
> - Google results were kin with the default language (nicely ranked) while other language were… omitted (I don’t check after the 3rd page of results).
> - It limited me in using proper and multilingual terms for different strings (title, page name, description, etc) that help to better rank the pages.
> - It arrived a page title was in one language and description in another (Google confusion?)
> 
> 
> So, I created then 3 pages, one for each language and filled the fields with strings for each languages.
> 
> Sometime a search result show a page title and description in one language and on click the user land on a page in a different language or a page with the language site set differently to the page.
> I had to play a bit with i18n settings (testing required computer and browsers using different languages and location that never went on the site to be sure I had what a user or a crawler see the first time - before any personal choice)
> (Still under test)
> 
> Results:
> - Google finds the page(s) for each language.
> - Title and Description are nicely displayed in the relevant language
> 
> However, it happen often, the same title with the same description is displayed on Google results. (Not nice)
> And it kind of make sense due to the setting enabled : "Use each page description as a meta tag for that page."
> https://doc.tiki.org/Meta-Tags-Tab
> 
> While the option is unclear about which meta-data will be used I found out the same value will be used for “title” and “description”.
> And this is not good for SEO. (Not sure it hurts but it is a waste of tags)
> 
> ---
> 
> Question:
> Shouldn’t it be clever (more flexible) to have a way to set the meta-tag “title” and the meta-tag “description” for each wiki page ?
> (IE: 2 fields on the wiki page=>Properties, one for the title value and one for the description value)
> 
> As tailback, in case "Use each page description as a meta tag for that page.” Is enable shouldn’t Tiki use the “standard” description instead of duplicating ?
> IE,  when "Use each page description as a meta tag for that page.” Is enable, the wiki page description is used for the header title and the Tiki description (admin=>meta-tags=>description) is used as header description.
> 
> …or this is just overdoing things ?
> 
> Bernard
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