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avatar severdia
severdia
15 Oct 2016

Steps to reproduce the issue

When you have many articles in a category (like a News section) and a category blog/list menu item is pointing to that category, the articles within it use the article title as the browser page title when viewing. Sometimes articles can have the same title and Google flags those articles as duplicate content even when they are not (reducing page/domain authority).

Expected result

Google recommends your browser page titles (the value of <title>Lorem ipsum</title>) be unique.

Actual result

Browser page titles can't be customized until you create a menu item for that article, or you change the article title. The preferred solution is to add the same field for custom browser page titles as currently exists for Menu Items to the Article Options tab.

System information (as much as possible)

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avatar severdia severdia - open - 15 Oct 2016
avatar brianteeman brianteeman - close - 15 Oct 2016
avatar mbabker
mbabker - comment - 15 Oct 2016

Fixed in 3.7. #10838

avatar mbabker mbabker - change - 15 Oct 2016
Status New Closed
Closed_Date 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2016-10-15 21:07:56
Closed_By mbabker
avatar mbabker mbabker - close - 15 Oct 2016
avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 15 Oct 2016

Why not do an override to include the category name in the title

On 15 October 2016 at 22:03, Ron Severdia notifications@github.com wrote:

Steps to reproduce the issue

When you have many articles in a category (like a News section) and a
category blog/list menu item is pointing to that category, the articles
within it use the article title as the browser page title when viewing.
Sometimes articles can have the same title and Google flags those articles
as duplicate content even when they are not (reducing page/domain
authority).
Expected result

Google recommends your browser page titles (the value of Lorem<br> ipsum) be unique.
Actual result

Browser page titles can't be customized until you create a menu item for
that article, or you change the article title. The preferred solution is to
add the same field for custom browser page titles as currently exists for
Menu Items to the Article Options tab.
System information (as much as possible) Additional comments


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avatar severdia
severdia - comment - 15 Oct 2016

Thanks, Michael. I missed that issue and was about to submit a PR for it.

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