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

luciash via TikiWiki-devel <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:56:19 +0100
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Hi Bernard,

I suppose the problem is that it is adding the meta tags you define to 
the existing HTML <head> tag and does not replace the existing ones so 
you end up with duplicate meta tags and the one which was already there 
takes precedence.

luci


Dne 14.10.2021 v 19:37 Bernard Sfez via TikiWiki-devel napsal(a):
> For the record,
>
> I also remembered and quickly tested the metatag plugin: https://doc.tiki.org/PluginMetaTag
>
> Didn’t have success… I could set the title, so I tried the description and it didn’t change.
> Finally I tried it using a sample from the page on twitter and it kind of broke all the twitter tags in the head of the page.
>
> No joy...
>
> Bernard
>
>> On 12 Oct 2021, at 12:20, Jonny Bradley via TikiWiki-devel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 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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