[#39085] - Title tag according to pagination (SEO)
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Steps to reproduce the issue
Joomla site with menu item "Featured Articles" and several articles marked "Featured";
Browser Page Title: My Blog;
Site Name in Page Titles: After;
Depending on the settings you will have a page with some articles and pagination controls below them.
Number 2 of the pagination control will lead to "example.com/?start=5"
Number 3 of the pagination control will lead to "example.com/?start=10"
Expected result
HTML Source:
- <title>My Blog - Page 2 - My site name</title> or similar
- <title>My Blog - Page 3 - My site name</title>, etc.
Actual result
HTML Source:
<title>My Blog - My site name</title> for each page
So we have the same Title tag for:
- example.com
- example.com/?start=5
- example.com/?start=10
- example.com/?start=15
but all of these pages have different content.
So it is not quite appropriate for all of them to have the same title tag.
SEO checkers (semrush) also complain about that behaviour.
System information (as much as possible)
Joomla 4.2.4
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richard67
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actually I just checked and there is no title tag on the link and there is a unique aria label. Are you sure it is not a template issue?
Maybe I was not so clear.
I mean the title tag in the head section of HTML page source.
<head>
<title>...</title>
</head>
ah - sorry I did misunderstand.
the a11y tag can be removed
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you're expecting:
<title>My Blog - Page 2 - My site name</title> or similar
<title>My Blog - Page 3 - My site name</title>, etc.
Wouldn't the next expectation even be better?
<title>My Blog - Page 2 of 15 - My site name</title> or similar
<title>My Blog - Page 3 of 15 - My site name</title>, etc.
Where 15 is the total amount of pages?
Probably better.
I don't know how other CMS handle this issue (if any issue at all).
But don't forget: 50 – 60 characters are SEO Industry Recommended Title Tag Length, you have 5 or 6 chars more.
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A shorter form for pagination would be for example 45(138).
<title>My Travelling Blog 2022 45(138) - Visit Beautiful Indonesia
@chmst - I prefer the page word to be included for clarity. Many other languages indeed have longer words for page, for example, Bulgarian - "страница", but they also have abbreviations - "стр."
This is important if you want to support a11y (do screen readers read browser titles?)
If they do, so they will read these numbers and brackets.
The title tag should sound like a regular (and complete) sentence without strange numbers and brackets inside.
What you may do for better SEO is to drop the site name, especially if it is too long.
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Hackwar
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Can someone please tag this for the @joomla/joomla-accessibility-team-jat as its an accessibility failure to have multiple links with the same info